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Top 50 CO-OPS
RANK | DAIRY COOPERATIVE | MEMBER MILK VOLUME (BIL. LBS.) | MEMBER FARMS |
1 | Dairy Farmers of America Kansas City, Mo. |
36.700 | 12,078 |
2 | California Dairies Inc. Artesia, Calif. |
16.100 | 659 |
3 | Land O’Lakes Inc. St. Paul, Minn. |
12.279 | 3,296 |
4 | Northwest Dairy Association Seattle, Wash. |
7.504 | 628 |
5 | Dairylea Cooperative Inc. Syracuse, N.Y. |
5.500 | 2,325 |
6 | Family Dairies USA Madison, Wis |
5.163 | 3,677 |
7 | Associated Milk Producers Inc. New Ulm, Minn |
5.100 | 3,700 |
8 | Foremost Farms USA Baraboo, Wis. | 5.052 | 2,996 |
9 | Manitowoc Milk Producers Cooperative Manitowoc, Wis. |
4.200 | 2,858 |
10 | Select Milk Producers Inc. Artesia, N.M |
3.819 | 76 |
11 | Michigan Milk Producers Association Novi, Mich. |
3.394 | 1,630 |
12 | Maryland and Virginia Milk Prod. Co-op Assn. Reston, Va. |
3.007 | 1,458 |
13 | Southeast Milk Inc. Belleview, Fla. |
2.923 | 299 |
14 | United Dairymen of Arizona Tempe, Ariz. |
2.787 | 93 |
15 | Agri-Mark Inc. Lawrence, Mass. |
2.700 | 1,490 |
16 | Lone Star Milk Producers Inc. Windthorst, Texas |
2.200 | 221 |
17 | Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Producers Brookfield, Wis. |
1.819 | 740 |
18 | Alto Dairy Cooperative Waupun, Wis. |
1.600 | 550 |
19 | Prairie Farms Dairy Inc. Carlinville, Ill. |
1.458 | 793 |
20 | Continental Dairy Products Inc. Artesia, N.M |
1.324 | 20 |
21 | Swiss Valley Farms Davenport, Iowa |
1.323 | 870 |
22 | St. Albans Cooperative Creamery St. Albans, Vt. |
1.259 | 524 |
23 | First District Association Litchfield, Minn. |
1.155 | 820 |
24 | Woodstock Progressive Milk ProducersWoodstock, Ill |
1.100 | 450 |
25 | Security Milk Producers Association Ontario, Calif. |
1.066 | 33 |
26 | Upstate Farms Cooperative Inc. Buffalo, N.Y. |
1.021 | 275 |
27 | Bongards Creameries Canton, N.Y. |
1.011 | 460 |
28 | Magic Valley Quality Milk Producers Jerome, Idaho |
0.999 | 35 |
29 | Allied Federated Cooperative Canton, N.Y. |
0.800 | 825 |
30 | Farmers Cooperative Creamery McMinnville, Ore. |
0.741 | 74 |
31 | Lanco-Pennland Quality Milk Producers Hagerstown, Md. |
0.677 | 824 |
32 | Zia Milk Producers Inc. Roswell, N.M. |
0.641 | 14 |
33 | Tillamook County Creamery Association Tillamook, Ore. |
0.583 | 140 |
34 | Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery Ellsworth, Wis. |
0.543 | 488 |
35 | Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative Inc. Mount Joy, Pa. |
0.511 | 273 |
36 | Niagara Milk Cooperative Inc. Barker, N.Y. |
0.490 | 171 |
37 | Plainview Milk Products Cooperative Plainview, Minn. |
0.458 | 299 |
38 | Conesus Milk Producers Cooperative Inc. Perry, N.Y. |
0.427 | 101 |
39 | Cass-Clay Creamery Inc. Fargo, N.D. |
0.357 | 230 |
40 | Cal-West Dairymen Inc. Walnut Creek, Calif. |
0.336 | 20 |
41 | Burnett Dairy Cooperative Grantsburg, Wis. |
0.271 | 217 |
42 | Lowville Producers Dairy Cooperative Inc. Lowville, N.Y. |
0.254 | 187 |
43 | Humboldt Creamery Fortuna, Calif. |
0.230 | 55 |
44 | Midwest Dairymen's Co. Rockford, Ill. |
0.202 | 141 |
45 | Sunrise Ag Cooperative Buckman, Minn. |
0.199 | 170 |
46 | Country Classic Dairies Inc. Bozeman, Mont. |
0.196 | 51 |
47 | Cooperative Milk Producers Association Inc. Blackstone, Va. |
0.194 | 85 |
48 | Southeastern Graded Milk Producers Assn. Somerset, Ky. |
0.178 | 204 |
49 | Calhoun Cooperative Creamery Co. Lansing, Iowa |
0.168 | 90 |
50 | Hastings Cooperative Creamery Association Hastings, Minn. |
0.164 | 116 |
TOTAL | 142.183 | 47,829 | |
Member of National Milk Producers Federation |