List of dairy product companies in the United States
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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[edit]
A[edit]
- Alpenrose Dairy
- Alta Dena
- Alto Dairy Cooperative
- Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese
- Aurora Organic Dairy – based in Boulder, Colorado, it operates large factory farms, each with thousands of dairy cows, in Colorado and Texas
B[edit]
The Blue Bell Creameries factory in Brenham, Texas
- Beatrice Foods
- Bittersweet Plantation Dairy
- Blue Bell Creameries – an American food company that manufactures ice cream; purveys its ice cream directly in 23 states, mostly in the Southern U.S., as well as at least 27 other countries[2]
- Blue Valley Creamery Company
- Borden Milk Co. Creamery and Ice Factory
- Borden Milk Products
- Brewster Dairy
- Broughton Foods Company
- Byrne Dairy
C[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
- Desert Farms – the first American company to retail camel milk commercially
- Dreyer's
E[edit]
- Eagle Brand
- Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery – a producer of cheese curds located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin[3][4] that was established in 1910
F[edit]
G[edit]
- Galliker's
- Garelick Farms
- The Greek Gods
- Gustafson's Farm – a brand name of milk and dairy products sold in Florida
H[edit]
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, sorbet, sherbet, frozen yogurt and other frozen treats such as smoothies and frozen slab style ice cream mixers
- Hey Brothers Ice Cream
- Hilmar Cheese Company
- Horizon Organic
- HP Hood
- Humboldt Creamery
I[edit]
J[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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, focusing on the dairy industry. The co-op states that it has about 3,600 direct producer-members, 1,000 member-cooperatives, and about 10,000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural producers,[7] handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually.[8]
- Lautman's Dairy
- Louis Trauth Dairy
M[edit]
- Maine's Own Organic Milk Company
- Marin French Cheese Company
- Mauthe's Progress Milk Barn
- 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
O[edit]
P[edit]
Information plaque for the Penn State University Creamery
- Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company
- Penn State University Creamery – the largest university creamery in the United States; part of the Department of Food Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University; a producer and vendor of ice cream, sherbet, and cheese
- Pet, Inc.
- Pierre's Ice Cream Company
- Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company
- Prairie Farms Dairy – a dairy cooperative operating out of Carlinville, Illinois; receives milk from producers and converts it into many different products, including cheese, butter, ice cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, various dips, yogurt, and fluid milk
- Purity Dairies
R[edit]
- Rogue Creamery, Since 2002, an artisan cheese operation located in Oregon, winner of 30 international and over 50 national cheese-making awards.[9]
S[edit]
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
- Smiling Hill Farm
- Smith Dairy
- Sorrento Lactalis – one of the largest cheese companies in the United States
- Straus Family Creamery
- Surfing Goat Dairy
- Sweet Grass Dairy
T[edit]
U[edit]
- 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[edit]
Y[edit]
See also[edit]
- Dairy farming
- List of brand name food products
- List of cheesemakers
- List of dairy products
- List of food companies
References[edit]
- ^ [1] Archived April 29, 2014, 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.
- ^ Wall Street Journal, Dec 13 1923[page needed]
- ^ "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.
