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
C
A newspaper advertisement for Carnation Evaporated Milk, 1921
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
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
- Houlton Farms Dairy
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 Foods – core businesses are in beverage, cheese, dairy foods, snack foods, and convenience foods
- Kraft Foods Inc – its roots trace to the National Dairy Products Corporation, formed on December 10, 1923, by Thomas H. McInnerney[5]
- Kraft Heinz Company – a result of the merger of Kraft Foods with Heinz[6]
L
A Land O'Lakes processing plant in Kiel, Wisconsin
- Lactaid
- Land O'Lakes – a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota[7] handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually.[8]
- Louis Trauth Dairy
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
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.[9]
- Rockview Farms
S
Goats at the Surfing Goat Dairy
- Saputo Inc.
- Sargento − one of the largest privately held companies in the United States,[10] and one of the largest retail cheese companies in the U.S.[11]
- Schoep's Ice Cream
- Schreiber Foods
- 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
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.
See also
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
- 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.
- "Dairy Combine Shares". The Wall Street Journal. 11 December 1923. p. 7. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- "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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