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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.
- Agri-Mark, Inc.
- Associated Milk Producers Inc.
- California Dairies, Inc.
- Cayuga Marketing
- Central Equity Milk Cooperative Inc.
- Cobblestone Milk Cooperative Inc.
- Bongards’ Creameries
- Burnett Dairy Cooperative
- Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
- Dairygold (marketing and processing subsidiary of the Northwest Dairy Association)
- Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery
- Farm First Dairy Cooperative
- First District Association
- Foremost Farms USA
- High Desert Milk Inc.
- Lakes Area Cooperative
- Lanco-Pennland Quality Milk Producers
- Land O’Lakes
- Lone Star Milk Producers
- Magic Valley Quality Milk Producers Inc.
- Maryland and Virginia Milk Production Cooperative Association
- Michigan Milk Producers Association
- National Farmers Organization Inc.
- Northwest Independent Milk Producers Association
- Organic Valley / CROPP
- Plainview Milk Products Cooperative
- Rolling Hills Dairy Producers Co-op
- Scenic Central Milk Producers Cooperative Association
- Select Milk Producers, Inc.
- Southeast Milk Inc.
- St. Albans Cooperative Creamery Inc.
- Sunrise Ag Cooperative
- Tillamook County Creamery Association
- United Dairymen of Arizona
- Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc.
- Voice of Milk
- Westby Cooperative Creamery
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
