Clearing snow and ice off Wisconsin roads can be costly in both materials and manpower. In a state where snowplows stay on municipal trucks well into March, liquid brine is essential in reducing salt ...

Discover how Wisconsin cheese brine is used to reduce road ice and salt bills, transforming a cheese-making byproduct into a solution. Wisconsin is known for two things: its cheese and its wicked ...

Milwaukee's mayor the city is ready to do battle with snow no matter how much the city gets.On average, the cost is about $6 million a year for snow removal, but it has been as high as $14 million.The ...

From backwoods county highways to Milwaukee city streets, Wisconsin road crews will be using a new weapon in the war on winter accidents — cheese brine. Brine is a liquid cheese-making byproduct; if ...

This winter, a Wisconsin county is fighting icy roads with a homegrown product: liquid cheese brine. Tens of thousands of gallons of the stuff are used each year along with road salt, according to ...

DRESSER, Wisc. - Wisconsinites embrace winter almost as much as they love their cheese. It was only a matter of time until someone combined the two. "Only in Wisconsin," laughs Polk County plow driver ...

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Cheese on the road?! This winter, the city of Milwaukee is looking to spread a little cheese brine on its roads to help clear ice from the roadways. Brine is basically salt and ...

Milwaukee is trying out a new twist on winter road de-icing – a splash of cheese brine. The city spends on average $6 million, occasionally as much as $14 million, during a winter season to manage the ...

A mozzarella byproduct could soon be helping to melt ice on Milwaukee streets, a project befitting a state where football fans proudly wear foam cheese wedges on their heads. Chuckle if you must, but ...

Wisconsin knows this well: When you make more than 2 billion pounds of cheese a year it creates the salty byproduct cheese brine. Normally you discard it but folks in Milwaukee had an idea. Why not ...