Urnäscher Milchspezialitäten AG

We are delighted to have already received a number of prestigious awards in our short history as a company. We owe these successes to the impeccable quality of the milk, which is delivered fresh every day by our shareholders, and to our operations manager and his staff, who ensure that it is processed to the highest standards. We are proud

cheese dairy

yes, the products made in our cheese dairy come from our farmers, from our cows grazing on our healthy meadows. We ensure that the valuable raw material milk is refined into high-quality milk and cheese specialties. One hundred percent of the silage milk we process comes from mountain regions! A total of 2.7 million kilograms of milk are processed in our communal milk processing plant. Our milk suppliers guarantee the quality of our products and uphold traditional values. They all work on established family farms with a strong and deep connection to animals, nature, and Appenzell customs.
The milk used to make Urnäscher cheese comes 100% from the Appenzell region and is refined locally until it is ready for market. The unique, distinctive customs of the Urnäsch region in the Appenzell hinterland are still practiced here in their entirety and in their original form.

Our horned cows

In Swiss agriculture, only about 20% of cows still have horns. Here in Urnäsch, things are a little different. Practically all of our cows still have horns. Of the approximately 617 cows that produce milk for our cheese, only 5 are hornless. Most of these dehorned cows are owned by a milk supplier from Hundwil, who only brings the milk to the cheese dairy every other day. This makes it easy for us to produce cheese from the milk of horned cows – Urnäscher Hornkuhkäse.