In 1979 a 3,100 lb. round cheddar was produced for the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. It was received with great fanfare and was viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors. It ended its runway career when it was sold to the Dominion Food chain where it returned to its intended purpose-as "old" cheddar for Ontario grocery shoppers.

In later years another giant cheese was produced and sent to Britain's Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society in London. Cheese maker Ken Krotz and his wife Mary Jane accompanied the colossal cheddar and in doing so were part of a record that still stands today for the largest cheese ever to be flown across the Atlantic Ocean.

Although a number of cheese makers practiced their craft over the life of the cheese factory, it bears mentioning that for seventy of those years, the father and son team of Wes and Ken Krotz provided excellent stewardship that culminated in the local, national, and international recognition for the factory and the village. Together with Don Tanner, who also served as a Millbank cheese maker for nearly 40 years, these men were constant innovators, able to keep Millbank Cheese and Butter at the cutting edge of technology.

By the late '70s and early '80s, the Ontario dairy industry experienced great upheavals, particularly regarding milk quota-the right to ship milk to market. In the early days, milk quota could be acquired for little or no cost, but the move toward factory farming soon priced quota out of the reach of many young dairy farmers.