List of dairy product companies in the United States explained

This is a list of dairy product companies in the United States. A dairy product is food produced from the milk of mammals.^[1] Dairy products are usually high energy-yielding food products. A production plant for the processing of milk is called a dairy or a dairy factory.

Dairy product companies in the United States

A

• All American Foods
  • Alpenrose Dairy Alta Dena
  • Alto Dairy Cooperative Aurora Organic Dairy
• Anderson Erickson Dairy

B

• • • Beatrice Foods Bittersweet Plantation Dairy Blue Bell Creameries
      • • • • Blue Bunny Blue Valley Creamery Company Borden Dairy Braum's Brewster Dairy Broughton Foods Company Byrne Dairy
• BelGioioso Cheese Inc.

C

• • Capriole Goat Cheese Carnation – founded as an evaporated milk company in 1899
    • • • • • • • • Carvel Cass-Clay Chaseholm Farm Creamery Cielo Clover Stornetta Farms Cooksville Cheese Factory Coolhaus Cornell Dairy Cypress Grove Chevre Cypress Point Creamery

D

• Dairy Farmers of America – a national milk marketing cooperative that is owned by and serves nearly 15,000 dairy farmer-members, representing more than 9,000 dairy farms in 48 states
  • • • • • Dairylea Cooperative Inc. Danone Darigold DCI Cheese Company Dean Foods DF Ingredients
• Dreyer's

E

• • Eagle Brand Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery – a producer of cheese curds located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin^{[2] [3]} that was established in 1910
• Elmhurst Dairy- New York, NY

F

• • • Fairmount Food Group Ferndale Dairies Foster Farms Dairy
• Flavors Baskin-Robbins

G

• • • • Galliker's Garelick Farms The Greek Gods Gustafson's Farm

H

• • Happy Cow Creamery Hershey Creamery Company – a creamery that produces Hershey's brand ice cream.
    • • • Hey Brothers Ice Cream Hilmar Cheese Company Horizon Organic HP Hood Humboldt Creamery

J

• • Jackson Ice Cream Company Joseph Gallo Farms – a large family-owned dairy operation that is prominent in California’s dairy industry; based in Livingston, California
• Junket

K

• Kemps
  • Killer Shake Kraft Heinz – a result of the merger of Kraft Foods with Heinz^[4]

L

• Land O'Lakes – a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota^{[5] [6]}
• Louis Trauth Dairy
• Leprino Foods

M

• • • • Maine's Own Organic Milk Company Marin French Cheese Company Mayfield Dairy Maytag Dairy Farms – established in 1941 by Frederick Louis Maytag II and based in Newton, Iowa, it manufactures blue cheese and other cheeses
• Meadow Gold Dairies
• Murray's Cheese

O

• • • Oakhurst Dairy Oberweis Dairy Organic Valley

P

• • Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company Penn State University Creamery
    • • Pet, Inc. Pierre's Ice Cream Company Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company Prairie Farms Dairy – a dairy cooperative operating out of Carlinville
• Purity Dairies

R

• Rogue Creamery, Since 2002, an artisan cheese operation located in Oregon, winner of 30 international and over 50 national cheese-making awards.^[7]
• Rockview Farms

S

• • Saputo Inc. Sargento − one of the largest privately held companies in the United States,^[8] and one of the largest retail cheese companies in the U.S.^[9]
    • Schoep's Ice Cream Schreiber Foods Schuman Cheese
  • Shamrock Farms Sheffield Farms
• Siggi's Dairy
  • • Smiling Hill Farm Smith Dairy Sorrento Lactalis
• Stewart's Shops
• Stonyfield Farm
• Straus Family Creamery
  • Surfing Goat Dairy Sweet Grass Dairy

T

• T. G. Lee Dairy
• Tillamook Cheese
• Tuscan Dairy Farms
• Turkey Hill Dairy

U

• United Dairy Farmers – a chain of shops offering ice cream and other dairy products; has stores throughout the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area, as well as Dayton and Columbus

V

• Volleman's Family Farm – A vertical integrated milk company, controlling every aspect of making milk and shipping their milk in returnable glass bottles to their customers. Volleman's offers a diversity of flavors in different sizes.

W

• • • • • Wainwright Dairy Waldrep Dairy Farm Winchester Cheese Company Winder Farms Winter Park Dairy
• Wawa Food Markets 1890, George Wood, a businessperson from New Jersey, moved to Delaware County, Pennsylvania; it was here that he began the Wawa Dairy Farm.

Y

• • • Yakult USA Yancey's Fancy Yarnell Ice Cream Co.

See also

• Dairy farming
• List of brand name food products
• List of cheesemakers
• List of dairy products
• List of food companies

Further reading

• Von Keyserlingk, M. A. G., et al. "Invited review: Sustainability of the US dairy industry." Journal of Dairy Science 96.9 (2013): 5405-5425.

Notes and References

1. http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/publication/understandfoodlabellingterms.pdf
2. Jim Anderson, "For State Fair, 60 tons of cheese curds from 1 dairy" Star Tribune, August 21, 2011. Accessed December 7, 2013.
3. Web site: The Ellsworth Cooperative reamery. Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. 18 October 2013.
4. Web site: Kraft Foods to merge with Heinz. 25 March 2015. BBC News.
5. http://annualreport.landolakesinc.com Land O' Lakes Annual report
6. Web site: Welcome to Land O'Lakes, Inc. . 10 July 2010.
7. Web site: Awards . Rogue Creamery . 2015-12-20.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=waPVq7au8NsC&pg=PA248 Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin - Martin Hintz, Pam Percy
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=AR8fgW2ZUCsC&pg=PA67 Plymouth