Dairy Farmers of America Inc. (DFA), Kansas City, Mo., is in advanced negotiations with Ireland-based Glanbia plc and the dairy farmer members of the Greater Southwest Agency.
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. Inc. (DFA DFA - Deterministic Finite-state Automaton. See Finite State Machine. ), Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo., is in advanced negotiations with Ireland-based Glanbia plc and the dairy farmer members of the Greater Southwest Agency, including DFA, Select Milk Producers Inc., Lone Star Milk Producers Inc. and Zia Milk Producers Inc., to form a new joint venture. The project calls for building a $170-million cheese and whey whey
liquid residue from milk after the removal of cheese curds in the manufacture of cheese. An excellent protein supplement but difficult to handle in the liquid form, except to pigs maintained close to the cheese factory. Dried whey is easy to handle but processing costs are high. products plant in the western Texas / New Mexico region. Glanbia will be responsible for day-to-day plant operations, sales and marketing of the plant's dairy products, and the Greater Southwest Agency will coordinate the milk supply.
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