What are the largest dairy cooperatives in north America?

Answer 1

Table 2. Top 50 Dairy Cooperatives, 1992.

---- Rank Dairy Cooperative Member milk volume Number of members 1 Associated Milk Producers, Inc.

San Antonio, Texas 16.50 14,729 2 Mid-America Dairymen, Inc.

Springfield, Missouri 8.61 13,108 3 California Milk Producers Assn.

Artesia, California 5.76 393 4 Farmers Union Milk Marketing Coop.

Madison, Wisconsin 5.64 10,751 5 Darigold Farms

Seattle, Washington 4.92 1,350 6 Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 4.20 5,580 7 Milk Marketing, Inc.

Strongsville, Ohio 3.81 5,855 8 Dairymen, Inc.

Louisville, Kentucky 3.62 3,362 9 Atlantic Dairy Cooperative

Southampton, Pennsylvania 3.53 3,580 10 Dairvmen's Cooperative Creamery Assn.

Tulare, Califomia 3.50 287 11 California Cooperative Greamery

Petaluma, California 3.21 505 12 Manitowoc Milk Producers Coop

Manitowoc, Wisconsin 3.06 3,462 13 Michigan Milk Producers Assn.

Novi, Michigan 2.95 2,750 14 Western Dairymen Coop., Inc.

Thorton, Colorado 2.85 1,075 15 Wisconsin Dairies Coop.

Baraboo, Wisconsin 2.77 4,65t) 16* Agri-Mark, Inc.

Lawrence, Massachusetts 2.49 2,044 16* Dairylea Cooperative, Inc.

East Syracuse, New York 2.49 2,300 18 Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Assn.

Reston, Virginia 2.25 1,359 19 Florida Dairy Farmers Assn.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1.95 192 20 Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Producers

Brookfield, Wisconsin 1.88 2,021 21 San Joaquin Valley Dairymen

Los Banos, Cali'omia 1.80 228 22 Southern Milk Sales, Inc.

San Antonio, Texas 1.66 1,246 23* Eastern Milk Producers Coop. Assn.

Syracuse, New York 1.55 2,200 23* United Dairymen of Arizona

Tempe, Arizona 1.55 105 25 Swiss Valley Farms Company

Davenport, Iowa 1.41 2,205 26 Allied Federated Coop.

Canton, New York 1.39 1,397 27 Danish Creamery Assn.

Fresno, California 1.34 125 28 Alto Dairy Cooperative

Waupun, Wisconsin 1.26 1,275 29 Carolina-Virginia Milk Prod. Assn., Inc

Charlotte, North Carolina .99 445 30 Independent Co-op Milk Prod. Assn., Inc.

Grand Rapids, Michigan .95 782 31 Upstate Milk Cooperative, Inc.

LeRoy, New York .90 570 32 First District Association

Litchfield, Minnesota .89 1,200 33 Golden Guernsey Dairy Coop.

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin .87 962 34 Tampa Independent Dairy Farmers' Association, Inc.

Tampa, Florida .82 129 35 Bongard's Creameries

Bongard, Minnesota .80 1,290 36 Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.

Carlinville, Illinois .78 747 37 St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, Inc.

St. Albans, Vermont .73 573 38 Magic Valley Quality Milk Producers, Inc.

Jerome, Idaho .71 87 39 Gulf Dairy Association, Inc.

Kentwood, Louisiana .61 582 40* Tilmook County Creamery Assn.

Tilmook, Oregon .48 197 40* Cass-Clay Creamery, Inc.

Fargo, North Dakota .48 879 42 Valley of Virginia Coop. Milk Prod. Assn.

Mt. Crawford, Virginia .45 293 43 Central Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Co-op

Reedsville, Pennsylvania .40 235 44 Farmers Cooperative Creamery

McMinnville, Oregon .38 114 45 Cal-West Dairymen, Inc.

Walnut Creek, California .31 35 46* Huntington Interstate Milk Producers

Hungington, West Virginia .30 500 46* Tri-State Milk Cooperative

West Salem, Wisconsin .30 640 48 Plainview Milk Products Cooperative

Kellogg, Minnesota .27 286 49 Humboldt Cooperative Creamery Assn.

Fortuna, California .24 130 50 Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery

Ellsworth, Wisconsin .22 400

TOTAL 110.82 99,210 Robert Jacobson, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Ohio State University and

Robert Cropp, and Professor and Extension Dairy Marketing and Policy Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.