While Wisconsin may be home to the cheeseheads, the Netherlands leave Wisconsin as the cheese champions.

The Netherlands has taken top honors at this year’s World Championship Cheese Contest with a rich, nutty cow’s milk cheese called Beemster Royaal Grand Cru.

The World Championship Cheese Contest crowned the Netherlands team as winners after its cheese, Beemster Royaal Grand Cru ...

Dairy processors from 34 U.S. states and territories, as well as 25 countries, faced off in the three-day competition. There were 3,375 entries.

GOUDA, Netherlands (Reuters) - Surrounded by 15-kg (33 lb) wheels of cheese ready to be carted away in horse-drawn carriages, a dairy farmer in the Dutch city of Gouda faces off against a cheese ...