tour takesan cities the tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s.ities to learn about their history and literary life. this begin, we visited green bay, wisconsin. known as american dairyland, because we make the moist cheese but also the best cheese. the industry developed in wisconsin from what was homestead cheese or each farm it wasmade cheese, recognized that we had an ideal environment for raising dairy cattle. and cheese was really just a way to take a perishable product which would only last about three days, and if you make cheese into it -- a cheddar cheese can last for a decade. this was late 1880's when the industry got started in wisconsin. generally, farmers in the neighborhood would form a cooperative. they would build a cheese factory and hire a cheese maker who would work for the cooperative on shares. there were thousands of cheesemakers. in 1930, over 2000 cheese plants in wisconsin had the transportation and road system approved, console edition among smaller plans. that continued and then there were only about 200 cheese factori