The 'Cheese Capital of the World', produces 14% of all cheese in U.S.

Many Wisconsin license plates have a common phrase, "America's Dairyland." It's not groundbreaking information. Many know The Badger State could easily be called the Dairy State. After all, the National Dairy Shrine Museum is in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

All of Wisconsin contributes to this impressive dairy reputation. However, a community of just about 9,000 people stands out among the rest for its cheese production. This tiny town is responsible for about 14 percent of all the cheese consumed in the United States.

"The reputation today is we are the Cheese Capital of the World. There is simply no community anywhere in the world that either packages or stores cold cheese in cold storage, processes cheese - there's just nobody in the world that produces more," Lee Gentine, who worked for Sargento for about 23 years, said.

Welcome to Plymouth, the 'Cheese Capital of the World.'

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