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The know-how of mountain dwellers, respecting a tradition still alive and proud.
Presenting for you a rare fruit: the unique and refined taste of Beaufort.
Production in 2007: 4.330 tonnes, 108.000 wheels.
Number of cheese production dairies: 7 permanent cooperatives with 71,1 % of the production, 2 maturing cooperatives, 6 pastoral groups (collective management system of the pastures), 29 individual dairymen and 2 milk buyers.
1.000 jobs depend on the Beaufort operation and cheese dairies. Several farmers have other activities linked to the winter tourism season
520 smallholders maintain milk production for the manufacture of Beaufort. They are small size operations (average milk production 80.000 kilos of milk compared to 200.000 as a national average).
The milk: a little more than 10 kilos of milk is needed to produce a kilo of Beaufort. A total of 45 million kilos of milk is transformed into Beaufort.
Some 11.000 tarine or abondance dairy cows produce the milk used in the manufacture of Beaufort. These cows populate the high mountain regions during the summer.
Interprofessional union dues: in the order of 31.39 ¤ / 1.000 litres of milk transformed into Beaufort for the functioning of the Union des Producteurs de Beaufort and the syndicat de défense.
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