What is a dairy cooperative?

A dairy cooperative is a business, which is owned and controlled by the dairy farmers who produce the milk used by the cooperative. At Foremost Farms, we use our member-owners’ milk – more than 5 billion pounds a year – to manufacture cheese, dairy ingredients, butter and fluid products for various markets and applications.

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Advantages of ownership

Our 2,000 dairy producers reap economic benefits of owning the cooperative in several ways. Foremost Farms’ member-owners:

• Receive a competitive price for their milk
• Enjoy a strong, secure market for their milk and global market access
• Own a flexible, diverse network of plants that can quickly switch production to manufacture products garnering the highest marketplace returns
• Can take advantage of a variety of services aimed to help keep them profitably producing high-quality milk
• Share in the cooperative’s net income and re-invest a portion into the cooperative’s operations

Benefits to customers

Our customers trust us to provide the highest-quality dairy products and ingredients from the highest-quality milk. That’s because Foremost Farms is owned by the dairy farmers who produce the milk used to make every Foremost Farms’ product. Everyone at Foremost Farms has a vested interest in producing world-class dairy products, operating with honesty and integrity and delivering superior customer service.