Lousy news for local cheese and butter lovers: PastureLand is on the ropes. Contextual quote from Dara’s post about it: “‘Minnesota has just pissed away its history of small and medium-sized processing plants,’ sighed [CEO Steve] Young-Burns. ‘If we were in Wisconsin there would be people from the dairy board all over us trying to help, but because we’re here there’s no infrastructure.'” From our archives: We really dug PastureLand’s Farmdog Blue and we liked their new cave-aged Meadowlark enough to pair it at a recent Cooks of Crocus Hill class.