Join Our Cooperative

Foremost Farms USA is a milk-marketing cooperative owned by dairy farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Our plants make custom cheeses, whey ingredients, butter, milk powders and packaged fluid milk. Our customers are large-volume buyers with distinct needs. By manufacturing and marketing dairy foods to a diverse marketplace through Foremost Farms USA, our member-owners maintain a competitive edge in today's volatile markets.

We provide dairy farmers with a financially strong business that efficiently assembles, processes and markets milk and related dairy products while providing superior value to our customers in a manner that generates fair and equitable returns for present, past and future member-owners.

We are progressive in identifying new markets and structuring our company so that our farmers can take full advantage of both today's and tomorrow's opportunities.

We strive toward each of these goals with uncompromising integrity, honesty and fairness.

Why belong to Foremost Farms USA?

No membership dues
Premiums for milk quality and volume
Trained field representatives to assist with on-farm milk quality issues, regulatory compliance, and equipment selection and installation
Risk Management Program with fixed-forward and minimum-price contracts
Online member information
Laboratory testing
Butterfat, protein and somatic cell tests
Drug residue testing
Plate loop count
Cryoscope
Free annual somatic tests on every cow in your herd
Quality test results delivered by the milk hauler
Online milk tests
Competitive milk hauling services
Member discount on Foremost Farms cheese and butter
Young Farmer Program for members ages 18 to 40
VALUEline, a monthly newsletter (with your milk check)

Apply for Cooperative Membership*

If you want to become a Foremost Farms member*, please request a visit from one of our field representatives.

* Note: This refers to membership for milk producers only, not the Kids, Caps and Cash program. You must use the Kids, Caps and Cash enrollment form if you wish to enroll a school in that program.