WE BRING DAIRY
TO LIFE
WHO WE ARE
At Foremost Farms, we are proud to be one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States and a major food manufacturing business. We are owned by hundreds of Midwest dairy farm members located across seven Midwest states that produce the high-quality milk used to make millions of pounds of award-winning cheese, butter and dairy ingredients every year.
PRODUCTS
OUR EMPLOYEES’ MISSION
Our Mission is to create value for our dairy farm families by partnering with our customers to deliver high quality, nutritious, safe and sustainable milk products to the marketplace.
OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENTS
Our Sustainability Strategy was built with the input of our stakeholders, including customers, employees and industry associates, to determine the highest priority commitments for adoption.
RESPONSIBLE
FOR PEOPLE
We train and educate employees, focus on occupational health and safety throughout the cooperative network, create value for member-owners and protect customer privacy.
RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE PLANET
We believe in ethical animal care and focus strongly on water quality and conservation, wastewater management, greenhouse gas emission management and environmental compliance.
RESPONSIBLE
FOR HEALTHY FOOD
We provide healthy and affordable food with traceable ingredients. Safety and quality are top priorities for our nutritious products.
BY THE NUMBERS
Foremost Farms has nine locations – eight manufacturing plants plus one headquarters in the Wisconsin Trade Center in Middleton, Wisconsin. Each plant operates 365/24/7 to make the award-winning products our retail and foodservice customers rely on to serve millions of consumers.
POUNDS OF CHEESE
POUNDS OF BUTTER
POUNDS OF DAIRY INGREDIENTS
EMPLOYEES
OUR VALUED EMPLOYEES
We hire great people who embrace learning and our “continuous growth mindset” toward professional and personal development. It is the key to our culture, job satisfaction and successfully achieving our business objectives.
LATEST STORIES
Mapltwin Farm
Chris Peterson, owner of Mapltwin Farm, said the farm was named when his parents, Jon and Sandra, started registering cows in 1960 at their 40 acre farm near Cashton, Wisconsin. Their chosen name - Mapletwin - was taken, so Jon dropped the “e” and it’s worked ever...
Foremost Farms Earns Awards in 2023 National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) Competition
Foremost Farms sweeps three cheese categories in NMPF dairy product competition with products made with its members’ high quality milk Foremost Farms earns 10 awards with cheeses produced at its Appleton, Clayton and Richland Center plants MIDDLETON, Wisc. (Nov. 16,...
Foremost Farms Selects Ginkgo Bioworks to Develop Technology for Upcycling Dairy Co-products
Foremost aims to commercialize a technology that can convert dairy manufacturing co-products into environmentally friendly, value-added materials The partners aim to reduce the dairy industry’s carbon footprint while simultaneously lowering manufacturing costs and...