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It's NZ cheese month and local cheesemakers want consumers to buy more local products.

A chance find of suspicious mould in hay on a Fairlie beef farm has led to the discovery of a new blue cheese culture for Oamaru-based Whitestone Cheese.

Cheesemakers of the world need to make a joint stand for the rights of generic cheeses, says Philip Turner, Fonterra director of global stakeholder affairs.

Cheese, butter and milk powder manufacturing has been picked in the top five of 200 New Zealand industries to perform well this year, according to global business intelligence company IBISWorld.

Much of the success of Whitestone’s Vintage Windsor Blue cheese comes down to North Otago milk, with the cows grazing off grass from limestone soils, says chief executive Simon Berry.

Cathy Oakley had to be cajoled into entering her Just Ewe Farmhouse sheep milk cheese in the New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards, but it paid off.

Local news media carry many reports and comments about the price of milk and how it’s hurting farmers.

A second generation cheese making family with Dutch origins, the company Meyer Gouda Cheese is continuing its golden run at the awards.

For the third year running, Kapiti Kahurangi Blue cheese has been awarded the New World Champion Favourite Cheese Award.

In a protest to show that Switzerland’s new rules on Swiss-made are too lenient, a luxury watch-maker has made a ‘100% Swiss’ timepiece incorporating cheese.