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DFA largest milk processor

IFCN_Top_20_Milk_Processor_by_milk_intakeuA new report from the International Farm Comparison Network (IFCN) ranks Dairy Farmers of America as the world’s largest milk processor.

The global dairy research network says DFA, based in Kansas City, Missouri, processes more than 28 million tons of milk which represents more than 3-and-a-half percent of world milk production.

The second largest processor is Fonterra in New Zealand with less than three-percent of world market share.

Other top U.S. milk processors include Dean Foods, of Dallas, Texas (7th), California Dairies (10th), Land O’Lakes, based in Minneapolis-St. Paul (17th) and Schreiber foods of Green Bay, Wisconsin (20th).

The IFCN says the top 20 milk processors in 2016 represent more than 25-percent of milk produced worldwide.

 

  • DID YOU KNOW THIS…….it takes as much as 2000 gallons of water to produce…ONE GALLON OF MILK….! Now do some math and you will begin to understand why our land and water is under a chemical attack every day….! Big dairy is not the answer for our natural resources….just look around at all the States with massive pollution problems….lakes….rivers and know our wells….. Manure leaving you lagoon is really not manure anymore….it’s a chemical soup with over 150 pathogens along with anything else put into the lagoon by the owner….that stuff wasn’t manure when it went into the pit….so…..why is it called manure when it comes our……and it it now being spread onto your land…..TIME FOR A DATELINE OR 20-20 INVESTIGATION…..?

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