dairy co-op
Farmers' milk partnership
A dairy co-op is a cooperative organization owned and operated by dairy farmers who pool resources for processing and marketing milk and milk products.
Members share costs, equipment, and profits while maintaining individual farm operations.
Major brands like Land O'Lakes and Tillamook began as dairy co-ops: The dairy co-op negotiates better prices than farmers could get alone.
- creameryButter-making facility
- milkMammalian nursing fluid
- milk truckVehicle delivering dairy products
- farmersLand-cultivating occupation holders
- collectiveJointly organized group
family farm · butter · butter churn · cheese · cheese wheel · barn · pasture · herd · bulk tank · Holstein · grass-fed · quota · shares · rural · processing · members · dividend · cream
- dairymilk, butter, cream, cheese, yogurt
- co-opsco-ops, credit union, food co-ops, REI, worker co-ops
- Farm Groupsfarm bureau, farmers union, farm unions, grange, farmers unions
- farm co-opsmember services, democratic control, annual meeting, board meetings, grain elevator
- cooperativescredit union, co-ops, credit unions, food co-ops, worker co-ops
dairy, co-op, dairies, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, dairymaid, cooperative, cooperatives