Mas del Collado
Tronchón, Maestrazgo
Ewe's cheeseProducing
- Hectares
- 62
- Ewes
- 480
- Breed
- Rasa aragonesa
- Joined @seis
- 2025
- Milk a year
- 72,000
- litres
- Cheeses a year
- 11,800
- pieces
Who ran it
Vicente and Teresa milked four hundred ewes and made Tronchón cheese in the farmhouse kitchen, with his grandmother's wooden mould. They sold it at the Cantavieja fair and to anyone who came up for it. Their two sons work in Castellón and neither wanted the flock. Vicente sold half the ewes and the dairy stood still.
What we have changed
We bought the farmhouse and its 62 hectares of pasture in 2025. We set up a small licensed dairy in the old lambing shed, with machine milking and a curing room that controls the humidity. The flock is back to 480 Rasa aragonesa ewes and each one wears an electronic tag.
What it gives now
The cheese is still made with raw milk and in a mould, with the flower pressed into the top. There are 11,800 cheeses a year and they cure for between six weeks and four months. Teresa comes down on Thursdays to taste the curd.
Latest
September 2026
- 17Sept
Cheeses from the July batch into the curing room
+1,040 kg
- 3Sept
Milking machine serviced
−€460.00
August 2026
- 14Aug
Water for the flock at the lambing shed trough
−310 m³
July 2026
- 21Jul
Cantavieja fair
+€8,940.00
June 2026
- 9Jun
Shearing all 480 ewes
−€1,920.00
May 2026
- 15May
The week with the most milk of the year, in cheese
+1,380 kg
April 2026
- 2Apr
Curing room with humidity control
−€14,600.00
February 2026
- 11Feb
Lambs from the winter lambing sold
+€19,270.00
January 2026
- 7Jan
Electronic tags for the whole flock
−€1,680.00
December 2025
- 1Dec
First batch under the health licence
+620 kg
The map
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- Pasture32.6 ha
- Fodder12.6 ha
- Holm oak and scrub15.9 ha
- Buildings0.9 ha
- Total62 ha
What comes next
2025Done€118,000
Licensed dairy in the lambing shed
Tronchón cheese goes back on sale with its paperwork.
2026Done€14,600
Curing room with humidity control
The rind comes out the same in August as in January.
2026Under way€7,800
Milk recording for each ewe
A ewe that gives less or falls ill is taken aside in time.
2027Planned€26,000
Solar panels for the curing room and the milk tank
Summer cooling runs on that day's sunlight.
2028Planned€18,000
Shop at the dairy
Whoever comes up to Tronchón takes cheese straight from the room.
From this farm
Aged Tronchón cheese1 kg cheese
€21.00
Young Tronchón cheese500 g cheese
€9.80
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