The second edition of the Grana Padano “Youth from the supply chain” is underway

After last year’s success, the Grana Padano Consortium throw the second edition of the initiative “Youth of the Supply Chain”. It is a journey to discover the new generations of members, which have the task of projecting the millenary tradition of one of the most famous DOP cheeses in Italy and in the world into the future. On the digital channels, on the Consorzio di Tutela’s website and social networks (as well as on the Repubblica website), the reader will be able to discover the stories of young farmers, cheesemakers, experts and entrepreneurs in the Grana Padano supply chain.

They tell what prompted them to take this path, such as their dreams and their ambitions, but also the daily commitment and effort of an “ancient” job, whose origins date back toactivity of the monks of the Chiaravalle abbey (where the Consortium is based today) almost a thousand years ago.

“Grana Padano is a young cheese because hundreds of young people create it every day, who know how to maintain its peculiarities and improve processing with the desire to see their companies grow and renew themselves – he proudly states Renato Zaghini, president of the Grana Padano Protection Consortium – Already last year we asked some of them to talk about the most congenial medium for their generations, the web. And the success has been such that we renew and expand that experience, adding ideas and stimuli”.

A year ago to face this communication experience with enthusiasm and success were Serene, Manuel, Paul, John And Frederick. Today they join them Philipcheesemaker, Paul and Annabreeders, from the province of Cremona, together with Georgealso involved in the transformation, Luca And Matteoboth livestock entrepreneurs, all from Vicenza.

In their stories they are not alone. Accompanying them in the videos as in life are from time to time a close person: a mother, a father, a brother with whom they share the passion for work and the responsibility of the role, a wife, a friend, a colleague in the daily commitment between tradition and innovation.

“We thus give the signal of continuity towards a future of growth – he continues Zaghini – It is the spirit that inspired the monks of Chiaravalle when they created the first shape and today it is spreading in the digital age”.

Today of Grana Padano Consortium, whose birth dates back to 1954, includes 128 processing companies, which manage 142 productive dairies, 147 seasoners and 200 pre-packers. In 2022, production was 5,212,103 wheels, equal to 202,051.4 tons, transforming approximately 2.752 million tons of milk milked in 3,835 stalls. The entire production chain of the most consumed protected designation of origin product in the world thus has 50,000 people involved. The salable gross production of aged cheese delivered ex-store reached 2.2 billion euros. Impressive numbers to which the “young people of the supply chain”.