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
• Blue Bunny
• Blue Valley Creamery Company
• Borden Dairy
• Braum's
• Brewster Dairy
• Broughton Foods Company
• Byrne Dairy

C

 

A newspaper advertisement for Carnation Evaporated Milk, 1921

• 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^[2][3] that was established in 1910
• Elmhurst Dairy- New York, NY

F

• Fairmount Food Group
• Ferndale Dairies
• Foster Farms Dairy

G

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

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

• Isaly's

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

 

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^[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

N

O

• Oakhurst Dairy
• Oberweis Dairy
• Organic Valley

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.^[7]
• Rockview Farms

S

 

Goats at the Surfing Goat Dairy

• 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

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

•  Food portal
•  Companies portal
•  Lists portal

• 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. [1] March 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
2. Jim Anderson, "For State Fair, 60 tons of cheese curds from 1 dairy" Star Tribune, August 21, 2011. Accessed December 7, 2013.
3. "The Ellsworth Cooperative reamery". Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
4. "Kraft Foods to merge with Heinz". BBC News. 25 March 2015.
5. Land O' Lakes Annual report
6. "Welcome to Land O'Lakes, Inc". Retrieved 10 July 2010.
7. "Awards". Rogue Creamery. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
8. Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin - Martin Hintz, Pam Percy. p. 248.
9. Plymouth. p. 67.