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Top 25 Dairy farmers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 420 dairy farmers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 11,628 professional contacts across them, including 2,843 with verified work emails. Petaluma is the largest hub.
This list covers dairy farmers headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest dairy farmers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,655 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In May 2020, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) acquired a substantial portion of Dean Foods’ assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,011 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Darigold is known for delivering fresh, high quality, value-added dairy products to consumers and customer-driven solutions to organizations all around the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 615 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Foremost Farms, we are proud to be one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States and a major food manufacturing business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 567 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Farmer-owned Hiland Dairy Foods delivers pure, wholesome milk and dairy products fresh from our farms to your table with no added growth hormones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A cooperative of about 260 family-owned farms, Upstate Niagara is a food and beverage company that has been producing award-winning, high-quality dairy products since 1971.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Aurora Organic Dairy – it is our obligation to take care of our animals, respect our people and improve the health of the planet for the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Agri-Mark farmers take pride in their Cabot, McCadam, and Agri-Mark products and have the toughest milk quality standards in the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a cooperative of dairy farm families, Cabot farmers love what they do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Maola Local Dairies™ is a farmer-owned cooperative sustainably producing a full-suite of nutritious dairy products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clover Sonoma is recognized as a leader at the forefront of the dairy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quality milk and dairy products start on the farm and continue at Superior Dairy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Midwest Dairy™ represents over 3,600 dairy farms and works on their behalf to build dairy demand by inspiring consumer confidence in our products and production practices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Challenge Dairy Products, a division of California Dairies, Inc, is a cooperative association of member-owner farmers dedicated to delivering high-quality dairy products through…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rockview Farms is a dairy company based out of P.O.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Select Milk Producers, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “First District Association is a dairy cooperative that manufactures wholesome dairy products from high quality milk supplied from our family farms located in Minnesota.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Southeast Milk, Inc is a dairy company based out of Belleview, Florida, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2001 by local dairy families, High Desert Milk is a vertically integrated cooperative supplying Nonfat Dry Milk, Skim Milk Powder, Whole Milk Powder, Milk Protein…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “On behalf of dairy farm families, The Dairy Alliance works with schools, health professionals, retailers, dairy processors and the public to promote dairy products throughout…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alpenrose remains one of the oldest family-owned and operated dairies in Oregon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1950, family-owned and operated Hollandia Dairy has been producing, processing and distributing our award-winning, farm-fresh milk and nutritional dairy products to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a farmer-owned cooperative, Westby Cooperative Creamery directly supports family farms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: dairy farmers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names dairy farmers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of dairy farmers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name dairy farmers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Dairy farmers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 420 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among dairy farmers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “dairy farmers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names dairy farmers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among dairy farmers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,843 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names dairy farmers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many dairy farmers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 420 dairy farmers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Dean Foods, headquartered in Kansas City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most dairy farmers?
Petaluma leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Dublin (3) and Fresno (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,843 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 420 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.