This is a list of dairy product companies in the United States. A

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is food produced from the

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. Dairy products are usually high energy-yielding food products. A production plant for the processing of milk is called a

dairy A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or buffaloes, but also from goats, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on ...

or a dairy factory.

Dairy product companies in the United States

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* All American Foods *

Alpenrose Dairy Alpenrose Dairy is a dairy and home delivery company located in the Hayhurst neighborhood of southwest Portland, Oregon, since 1916. It was owned by the Cadonau family for several generations until being sold to Smith Brothers Farms, a family-o ...

* Alta Dena *

Alto Dairy Cooperative Alto Dairy Cooperative (ADC) was a farmer-owned dairy cooperative in Waupun, Wisconsin. Founded in 1894, it is the oldest farmer-owned cooperative in the state of Wisconsin and boasts the nation's largest cheese producing plant east of the Mississ ...

* Aurora Organic Dairy – based in Boulder, Colorado, it operates large

factory farms Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known by its opponents as factory farming and macro-farms, is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production, while ...

, each with thousands of dairy cows, in Colorado and Texas

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Beatrice Foods Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food processing company founded in 1894. In 1987, its international food operations were sold to Reginald Lewis, a corporate attorney, creating TLC Beatrice International, after which the majority of ...

* Bittersweet Plantation Dairy *

Blue Bell Creameries Blue Bell Creameries is an American food company that manufactures ice cream. It was founded in 1907 in Brenham, Texas. For much of its early history, the company manufactured both ice cream and butter locally. In the mid-20th century, it abandone ...

* Blue Bunny * Blue Valley Creamery Company *

Borden Dairy Borden Dairy Company is an American dairy processor and distributor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Established in 2009,Braum's Braum's is an American chain of ice cream parlor and fast food restaurants. Based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Braum's was founded in 1968 by William Henry "Bill" Braum in Oklahoma City. The company operates over 300 restaurants in 5 states, prima ...

* Brewster Dairy * Broughton Foods Company *

Byrne Dairy Byrne Dairy is a regional dairy company headquartered in Syracuse, New York. It was founded during the Great Depression in 1933, delivering milk bottles to New Yorkers by horse-wagons. The company is privately run and has expanded, distributi ...

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* Capriole Goat Cheese *

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– founded as an

evaporated milk Evaporated milk, known in some countries as "unsweetened condensed milk", is a shelf-stable canned cow’s milk product where about 60% of the water has been removed from fresh milk. It differs from sweetened condensed milk, which contains adde ...

company in 1899 * Carvel * Cass-Clay * Chaseholm Farm Creamery *

Cielo Cielo (Spanish and Italian for "heaven" or "sky"), El Cielo (in Spanish) or Il Cielo (in Italian) may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Cielo'' (film), a 2017 Chile-Canadian documentary film * Cielo (TV channel), an Italian television ...

* Clover Stornetta Farms * Cooksville Cheese Factory *

Coolhaus Coolhaus is an American ice cream company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2009 by two women named Natasha Case and Freya Estreller. Coolhaus is an artisan ice cream brand known for combining Food and Architecture. The name Coolhaus, i ...

* Cornell Dairy * Cypress Grove Chevre * Cypress Point Creamery

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Dairy Farmers of America Dairy Farmers of America Inc. (DFA) is a national milk marketing cooperative in the United States. DFA markets members' raw milk and sells milk and derivative products (dairy products, food components, ingredients and shelf-stable dairy products) ...

– a national milk marketing

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...

that is owned by and serves nearly 15,000 dairy farmer-members, representing more than 9,000

dairy farms A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or buffaloes, but also from goats, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a ...

in 48 states * Dairylea Cooperative Inc. *

Danone Danone S.A. () is a French multinational food-products corporation based in Paris. It was founded in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of the company's products are ...

* Darigold *

DCI Cheese Company DCI Cheese Company is a United States food industry company specializing in cheese, headquartered in Richfield, Wisconsin (in Mayville, Wisconsin before 2005). Established in 1975 as Dan Carter, Inc., a consulting firm for cheesemakers, it rapidly ...

Dean Foods Dean Foods was an American food and beverage company and the largest dairy company in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company maintained plants and distributors in the United States. Dean Foods had 66 manufacturing faciliti ...

Dreyer's Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. ("Dreyer's"), is an American ice cream company, founded in 1928 in Oakland, California, where its present-day headquarters office remains. The company's two signature brands, ''Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream'' and ''Edy ...

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* Eagle Brand * Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery – a producer of

cheese curd Cheese curds are moist pieces of curdled milk, eaten either alone or as a snack, or used in prepared dishes. They are consumed throughout the northern United States and Canada. Notably, cheese curds are popular in Quebec, as part of the dish p ...

s located in Ellsworth, WisconsinJim Anderson
"For State Fair, 60 tons of cheese curds from 1 dairy"
''Star Tribune'', August 21, 2011. Accessed December 7, 2013. that was established in 1910 * Elmhurst Dairy- New York, NY

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Fairmount Food Group Fairmount Food Group, LLC (FFG) is a food industrial company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Established in 2003 by Bing Graffunder (CEO) and Sam Hillin (CFO), the company began with an initial $200 million in equity financing from GTCR Golder Rau ...

* Ferndale Dairies *

Foster Farms Dairy Crystal Creamery (formerly Foster Farms Dairy) was founded in 1901 by Max and Verda Foster in Modesto, California, a venture following their 1939 founding of Foster Farms. The company claims to be the "largest privately owned dairy in Californi ...

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

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* Happy Cow Creamery * Hershey Creamery Company – a

creamery A creamery is a place where milk and cream are processed and where butter and cheese is produced. Cream is separated from whole milk; pasteurization is done to the skimmed milk and cream separately. Whole milk for sale has had some cream ret ...

that produces Hershey's brand ice cream. * Hey Brothers Ice Cream *

Hilmar Cheese Company Hilmar Cheese Company is a cheese and whey products manufacturer headquartered in Hilmar, California, United States. The privately owned company has over 1000 employees and specializes in the mass production of Monterey jack, pepper jack, colby ...

Horizon Organic Horizon Organic is an American company, founded in 1991, that produces organic milk and other organic food products. Horizon Organic is the largest supplier of organic milk in North America. Its products are sold in supermarkets and grocery stores ...

HP Hood HP Hood LLC is an American dairy company based in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Hood was founded in 1846 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, by Harvey Perley Hood. Recent company acquisitions by HP Hood have expanded its reach from predominantly New Eng ...

Humboldt Creamery Humboldt Creamery was formerly an agricultural marketing cooperative located on the California North Coast currently owned by Foster Farms Dairy of Modesto, California. History The co-op produced as much as 10 million gallons of ice cream ann ...

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* Isaly's

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* Jackson Ice Cream Company *

Joseph Gallo Farms Joseph Gallo Farms is a large family-owned dairy operation, and is prominent in California’s dairy industry. It is based in Livingston, California. History Joseph Gallo Farms was founded in 1946 in the northern San Joaquin Valley by Joseph ...

– a large family-owned dairy operation that is prominent in California’s dairy industry; based in Livingston, California * Junket

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* Kemps * Killer Shake *

Kraft Heinz The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz, is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and Heinz co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Kraft Heinz is the third-largest food and bevera ...

– a result of the merger of

Kraft Foods The second incarnation of Kraft Foods is an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz in 2015. A merger with Heinz, arran ...

with

Heinz The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the co ...

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Land O'Lakes Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an American member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, United States, focusing on the dairy industry. The cooperative has 1,959 direct producer-members, 751 ...

– a member-owned

agricultural cooperative An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperati ...

based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota * Louis Trauth Dairy * Leprino Foods

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* Maine's Own Organic Milk Company * Marin French Cheese Company *

Mayfield Dairy Mayfield Dairy Farms is a United States dairy products company, with its headquarters in Athens, Tennessee and additional production plants in Birmingham, Alabama, and Braselton, Georgia. Since 1990 it has been under the ownership of Dean Foods. ...

Maytag Dairy Farms Maytag Dairy Farms, based in Newton, Iowa USA ,is a manufacturer of blue cheese and other food products. History Maytag Dairy Farms was established in 1941 by Frederick Louis Maytag II. The history of the business dates back to 1919, when ...

– 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

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Oakhurst Dairy Oakhurst Dairy is a company in the dairy industry that sells mostly milk products, as well as juices. It was founded in 1918, and is headquartered in Portland, Maine. History The company's earliest predecessor was a dairy farm founded in 1902 by A ...

Oberweis Dairy Oberweis Dairy, headquartered in North Aurora, Illinois, is the parent company of several dairy-related and fast food restaurant operations in the midwest region of the United States. Its businesses include a home delivery service available in pa ...

Organic Valley Organic Valley (OV) is an organic food brand and independent cooperative of organic farmers based in La Farge, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1988, Organic Valley is the nation’s largest farmer-owned organic cooperative and one of the ...

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Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

Penn State University Creamery The Pennsylvania State University Creamery, often shortened to just Berkey Creamery or The Creamery, is a producer and vendor of ice cream, sherbet, and cheese, all made through the Department of Food Science in the College of Agricultural Sc ...

Pet, Inc. Pet, Inc. was an American company that was the first to commercially produce evaporated milk as a shelf-stable consumer product with its "PET Milk" brand. While evaporated milk was popular before refrigerators were common in homes, sales peaked ...

* Pierre's Ice Cream Company * Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company *

Prairie Farms Dairy Prairie Farms Dairy is a dairy cooperative founded in Carlinville, Illinois, and now headquartered in Edwardsville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis. As a dairy cooperative, Prairie Farms receives milk from producers and converts it into many ...

– a dairy cooperative operating out of Carlinville *

Purity Dairies Purity Dairies, formerly known as Ezell's Dairy, is a Nashville, Tennessee, United States, based dairy company operated by the Ezell family. It provides products throughout Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. The company is owned by and operates as a ...

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Rogue Creamery Rogue Creamery is an American cheese maker based in Central Point, Oregon founded in 1933. Since 2002, Rogue Creamery has been making artisan cheeses. Founder Tom Vella brought mold, cultures and recipes for ''Oregon Blue'' to Central Point from ...

, Since 2002, an

artisan cheese Artisanal cheese refers to cheeses produced by hand using the traditional craftsmanship of skilled cheesemakers. As a result, the cheeses are often more complex in taste and variety. Many are aged and ripened to achieve certain aesthetics. This con ...

operation located in Oregon, winner of 30 international and over 50 national cheese-making awards. * Rockview Farms

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Saputo Inc. Saputo Inc. is a Canadian dairy company based in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1954 by the Saputo family. It produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products, including cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream prod ...

* Sargento − one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, and one of the largest retail cheese companies in the U.S.Plymouth
p. 67. * 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 Stewart's Shops is an American chain of convenience stores located primarily in eastern Upstate New York and southwestern Vermont, owned by the Dake family and the employees through an ESOP plan. Headquartered in Ballston Spa (with a Sarat ...

* Stonyfield Farm * Straus Family Creamery * Surfing Goat Dairy * Sweet Grass Dairy

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* T. G. Lee Dairy * Tillamook Cheese *

Tuscan Dairy Farms Tuscan Dairy Farms is an American dairy company, headquartered in Roebling, New Jersey, and owned by Dean Foods, a subsidiary of Dairy Farmers of America. History and operations Founded in 1918 by Louis Borinsky, Tuscan Dairy Farms began as a f ...

* Turkey Hill Dairy

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United Dairy Farmers United Dairy Farmers (UDF) is an American chain of shops offering dairy products as well as coffee and gasoline. UDF was started by Carl Lindner Sr. and his children in 1938. Almost as soon as they started operations, the Lindners began work on ...

– 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

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* Wainwright Dairy * Waldrep Dairy Farm * Winchester Cheese Company * Winder Farms * Winter Park Dairy *

Wawa Food Markets Wawa, Inc. ( ) is an American chain of convenience stores and gas stations located along the East Coast of the United States, operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Florida. The company' ...

1890, George Wood, a businessperson from

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delawa ...

, moved to

Delaware County, Pennsylvania Delaware County, colloquially referred to as Delco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With a population of 576,830 as of the 2020 census, it is the fifth-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the third=smallest in area. Del ...

; it was here that he began the Wawa Dairy Farm.

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Yakult USA Yakult Honsha is a Japanese company founded in 1955 to sell its flagship product, Yakult—a beverage made using industrial lactic acid bacteria, lactic milk, a bacterial strain discovered by Minoru Shirota in the 1920s. Yakult Honsha is a mult ...

Yancey's Fancy Yancey's Fancy is a producer of artisan cheeses based in Corfu, New York, USA. The company was formerly known as Darn Good Foods, Inc. The Yancey's Fancy name was established in 1998 when John Yancey (whose family operated Heluva Good!) and his lo ...

Yarnell Ice Cream Co. Yarnell Ice Cream Company is a privately owned and operated manufacturer of Yarnell's brand ice cream, frozen yogurt and sherbet products. Founded in 1932, the company's corporate headquarters are located along the east side of Spring Park in ...

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