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Industry Resources and Data
This heading is a non-comprehensive compilation of dairy trade groups, dairy cooperatives, and other resources from the dairy industry. Each subheading includes websites and resources from the dairy industry themselves, whether dairy associations, dairy cooperatives, or dairy news.
Trade Groups and Cooperatives
Trade Associations
Here is a non-exhaustive list of well-known dairy trade associations. Each dairy trade association encompasses a group of dairy businesses that collectively affect widespread decision-making based on their common goals.
- International Dairy Foods Association
- National Milk Producers Federation
- California Dairies, Inc.
- Select Milk Producers, Inc.
- The Dairy Alliance
- American Dairy Coalition
- Cheese Importers Association of America (CIAA)
- Dairy Business Association
- Western States Dairy Producers Association (WSDPA)
Cooperatives
The AMS Dairy Program published an extensive list of “Cooperative Milk Marketing Associations Holding Determinations of Qualification under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.” The AMS list was last amended on March 18, 2021, and includes cooperatives across the country.
- Qualification of Milk Marketing Cooperative Associations
- Application for Qualification of Cooperative Milk Marketing Association
- Annual Report of Cooperative Milk Association
- Capper-Volstead Act
Below is a list of dairy cooperatives based on Hoard’s Dairyman’s 2019 rankings. Dairy cooperatives are prioritized by member milk volume produced, in billions of pounds. This is a non-comprehensive compilation of dairy cooperatives nationwide, some cooperatives are not members of the National Milk Producers Federation.
- Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
- California Dairies, Inc.
- Land O’Lakes
- Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative
- Farm First Dairy Cooperative
- Dairygold (marketing and processing subsidiary of the Northwest Dairy Association)
- Select Milk Producers, Inc.
- Foremost Farms USA
- Associated Milk Producers Inc.
- Michigan Milk Producers Association
- United Dairymen of Arizona
- Agri-Mark, Inc.
- Maryland and Virginia Milk Production Cooperative Association
- Southeast Milk Inc.
- Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc.
- First District Association
- Lone Star Milk Producers
- Organic Valley / CROPP
- National Farmers Organization Inc.
- St. Albans Cooperative Creamery Inc.
- Bongards’ Creameries
- Cayuga Marketing
- Tillamook County Creamery Association
- Magic Valley Quality Milk Producers Inc.
- High Desert Milk Inc.
- Lanco-Pennland Quality Milk Producers
- Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery
- Cobblestone Milk Cooperative Inc.
- Rolling Hills Dairy Producers Co-op
- Plainview Milk Products Cooperative
- Scenic Central Milk Producers Cooperative Association
- Burnett Dairy Cooperative
- Hastings Cooperative Creamery Company
- Northwest Independent Milk Producers Association
- Sunrise Ag Cooperative
- Westby Cooperative Creamery
- Central Equity Milk Cooperative Inc.
- Lakes Area Cooperative
Other Resources from Industry
- The Dairy 100
- Dairy Plants USA Directory
- U.S. Dairy Research & Resources
- National Milk Producers Federation News & Resources
- The Dairy Alliance Dairy Farmer Resources
- Environmental Working Group (EWG), Decoding Meat and Dairy Product Labels
- Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AGMRC), Organic Dairy
