Good Culture Builds Dedicated Wisconsin Dairy Plant

Cottage cheese buyers should see expanded supply as the Blair, Wis. facility opens, expected in Q1 2027.

Updated on Nov. 4, 2026 in Organic Food

Gouache-painted editorial illustration of a single cream-white vessel with a pouring stream of milk in a flat Wisconsin dairy landscape. — Good Culture and Associated Milk Producers Inc. are building a dedicated cottage cheese production facility at AMPI's Blair, Wis. plant, expected to begin operations in Q1 2027. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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Good Culture, the cottage cheese brand, is partnering with Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI) to open a dedicated production facility at AMPI's plant in Blair, Wis. The facility is built around Good Culture's standards and is expected to begin operations in Q1 2027, which readers in Wisconsin and across the Midwest will see reflected in future cottage cheese supply.

Why it matters

The partnership is driven by the brand's rapid growth and grew out of shared values around quality, animal welfare, and the consumer experience. For readers who buy cottage cheese, a dedicated supply chain tied to a cooperative of family farms signals how production standards are being built into specific dairy operations rather than sourced generically.

This is a company-announced commercial partnership rather than a clinical or research study, so no trial design or health outcome data is reported. The verifiable figures are the cooperative's size of 500 family farms and the projected Q1 2027 start of operations.

The players

Good Culture

A cottage cheese brand whose production is being expanded through this dedicated facility partnership.

Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI)

A dairy cooperative of 500 family farms that supplies milk and operates the Blair, Wis. plant where the facility will be located.

Jesse Merrill

CEO and co-founder of Good Culture.

Sheryl Meshke

President and CEO of Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI).

The details

Good Culture and AMPI built the facility precisely around Good Culture's standards, and the company's cottage cheese is made with milk supplied through AMPI's farmer-owners. The arrangement links a specific brand's quality requirements directly to the dairy farms that supply the milk, rather than leaving sourcing to a general pool. The expanded capabilities are expected to help the brand meet demand and create room for new cottage cheese products.

Summer 2025: Good Culture and AMPI's partnership began.
May 2026: Good Culture launched a dedicated facility with Michigan Milk Producers Association.
Q1 2027: The AMPI Blair facility is expected to begin operations.

Health Landscape

Good Culture's Wisconsin facility follows its May 2026 dedicated facility launch with Michigan Milk Producers Association, extending a model of building production around specific brand standards. Dedicated supply arrangements of this kind are a pattern in the premium cottage cheese segment as brands seek closer control over milk quality and farm practices.

If you regularly buy cottage cheese, the new dedicated supply arrangement may affect future product availability as Good Culture expands; the facility is expected to begin operations in Q1 2027. Readers who prioritize milk quality or farm practices can use this as a prompt to check how a brand's sourcing is described on its packaging.

The takeaway

Dedicated sourcing arrangements tie a brand's quality standards to the specific farms supplying its milk. Readers who want to understand where their cottage cheese comes from can check a product's labeling for sourcing details.