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The benefits of FarmFirst Cooperative

The boards of directors of three Wisconsin-based dairy cooperatives have voted to merge. Under the proposal, Family Dairies USA, Manitowoc Milk Producers and Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Producers would unite to form FarmFirst Cooperative. The new co-op would have about 5,400 dairy farms producing around 13 billion pounds of milk in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. That would make FarmFirst the third-largest dairy co-op in the country behind Dairy Farmers of America and California Dairies. It would be the largest dairy co-op in the Midwest just ahead of Land O’Lakes.

Manitowoc Milk general manager Dennis Donahue says this all started a couple of years ago when they were looking at a joint venture.

AUDIO:Donahue talks about the proposal 3:00 mp3

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