South Edmeston, New York

Hamlet and CDP in New York, United States

42°41′03″N 75°19′04″W / 42.68417°N 75.31778°W / 42.68417; -75.31778CountryUnited StatesStateNew YorkCounty OtsegoTownEdmestonElevation

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1,119 ft (341 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code

13335

Area code607

South Edmeston is a hamlet (and census-designated place)^[2] on the Unadilla River in the Town of Edmeston in Otsego County, New York, United States.

This area had been a center of dairy farming and cheese production since the nineteenth century. Kraft Foods had operated a cheese plant in South Edmeston starting in the year 1920. They originally produced Philadelphia brand cream cheese. Later they switched over to Breyers yogurt, and the plant employed about 55 workers.

In December 2004, Kraft announced that the plant would close on April 8, 2005. Following its closure, the plant was bought by the company Agro Farma under Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Ulukaya. In 2007, it launched the Chobani brand of Greek yogurt. Thanks to the surge in popularity of Greek yogurt, as of 2011, the company employs 600 workers at its South Edmeston headquarters and production facility, and continues to expand.^[3]

References

^ "South Edmeston". Geonames.usgs. usgs. 1980. Retrieved May 16, 2017. data
^ "State of New York Census Designated Places - Current/BAS20 - Data as of January 1, 2019". tigerweb.geo.census.gov. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
^ Cazentre, Don (July 3, 2011). "How rural Chenango County became Greek yogurt capital". The Post-Standard. Retrieved July 5, 2011.