List of dairy product companies in the United States
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 – based in Boulder, Colorado, it operates large factory farms, each with thousands of dairy cows, in Colorado and Texas
B[]
The Blue Bell Creameries factory in Brenham, Texas
- Beatrice Foods
- Bittersweet Plantation Dairy
- Blue Bell Creameries[2]
- Blue Bunny
- Blue Valley Creamery Company
- Borden Milk Co. Creamery and Ice Factory
- Borden Milk Products
- Braum's
- Brewster Dairy
- Broughton Foods Company
- Byrne Dairy
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
- Dreyer's
E[]
- Eagle Brand
- Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery – a producer of cheese curds located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin[3][4] that was established in 1910
- Elmhurst Dairy- New York, NY
F[]
- Fairmount Food Group
- Ferndale Dairies
- Foster Farms Dairy
G[]
H[]
A Hershey's ice cream shop in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan
- 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
I[]
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 Company – a result of the merger of Kraft Foods with Heinz[5]
L[]
A Land O'Lakes processing plant in Kiel, Wisconsin
- Land O'Lakes – a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota[6][7]
- 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
N[]
O[]
P[]
Information plaque for the Penn State University Creamery
- 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.[8]
- Rockview Farms
S[]
Goats at the Surfing Goat Dairy
- Saputo Inc.
- Sargento − one of the largest privately held companies in the United States,[9] and one of the largest retail cheese companies in the U.S.[10]
- 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
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.
References[]
- ^ [1] Archived March 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "All product recall".
- ^ Jim Anderson, "For State Fair, 60 tons of cheese curds from 1 dairy" Star Tribune, August 21, 2011. Accessed December 7, 2013.
- ^ "The Ellsworth Cooperative reamery". Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
- ^ "Kraft Foods to merge with Heinz". BBC News. 25 March 2015.
- ^ Land O' Lakes Annual report
- ^ "Welcome to Land O'Lakes, Inc". Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ "Awards". Rogue Creamery. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ^ Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin - Martin Hintz, Pam Percy. p. 248.
- ^ Plymouth. p. 67.
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