Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), with nearly $8.5 billion in revenue last year, has increased its position as the largest milk cooperative in the United States.
Dairy Farmers of America Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) is an agricultural marketing cooperative owned by about 19,514 members (dairy farmers) representing 11,306 farms in the United States representing one-third of the US milk supply. In 2006 it had $7,898,824,000 in sales. (DFA DFA - Deterministic Finite-state Automaton. See Finite State Machine. ), with nearly $8.5 billion in revenue
last year, has increased its position as the largest milk cooperative in
the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The annual compilation of the top 100 cooperatives
was published by the National Cooperative Bank The National Consumer Cooperative Bank (NCCB) was created and chartered by the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act (92 Stat. 499, 12 U.S.C.A. 3001), enacted on August 20, 1978. The bank is directed by the act to encourage the development of new and existing cooperatives. in Washington, D.C.
Helped by strong milk prices through much of 2004, DFA increased its
revenue by 23%. Land O'Lakes, which has the largest animal feed
business in the United States in addition to extensive dairy processing
and marketing, was second in revenue but largest in assets with $3.2
billion.
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