WE BRING DAIRY
TO LIFE
WHO WE ARE
At Foremost Farms, we are proud to be one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States and a major food manufacturing business. We are owned by hundreds of Midwest dairy farm members located across seven Midwest states that produce the high-quality milk used to make millions of pounds of award-winning cheese, butter and dairy ingredients every year.
PRODUCTS
OUR EMPLOYEES’ MISSION
Our Mission is to create value for our dairy farm families by partnering with our customers to deliver high quality, nutritious, safe and sustainable milk products to the marketplace.
OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENTS
Our Sustainability Strategy was built with the input of our stakeholders, including customers, employees and industry associates, to determine the highest priority commitments for adoption.
RESPONSIBLE
FOR PEOPLE
We train and educate employees, focus on occupational health and safety throughout the cooperative network, create value for members and protect customer privacy.
RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE PLANET
We believe in ethical animal care and focus strongly on water quality and conservation, wastewater management, greenhouse gas emission management and environmental compliance.
RESPONSIBLE
FOR HEALTHY FOOD
We provide healthy and affordable food with traceable ingredients. Safety and quality are top priorities for our nutritious products.
FOREMOST FARMS IN 2024
BY THE NUMBERS
Foremost Farms has eight locations – seven manufacturing plants plus one headquarters in the Wisconsin Trade Center in Middleton, Wisconsin. Each plant operates 365/24/7 to make the award-winning products our retail and foodservice customers rely on to serve millions of consumers.
POUNDS OF CHEESE
POUNDS OF BUTTER
POUNDS OF DAIRY INGREDIENTS
EMPLOYEES
OUR VALUED EMPLOYEES
We hire great people who embrace learning and our “continuous growth mindset” toward professional and personal development. It is the key to our culture, job satisfaction and successfully achieving our business objectives.
LATEST STORIES
Rein’s Dairy
After stepping away from dairy in 2024, a call from Foremost Farms brought them back to what they do best, this time with cutting-edge robotic milking and feeding systems powering their operation near Lanesboro, Minnesota. From tough market decisions to a high-tech comeback, their story is one of resilience, innovation, and family farming at its finest.
Udder Excellence Breakthrough Thinker Award Winners: Meet Angela Barreau & Carrie Roach
Foremost Farms’ Angela Barreau and Carrie Roach turned a complex manual process at the cooperative’s Richland Center plant into an automated solution that’s transforming how finished goods samples are created. Their teamwork didn’t just solve a problem, it earned them the 2025 Udder Excellence Breakthrough Thinker Award. Now, months after launch, Angela reflects on what this success really means.
Udder Excellence Risk Taker Award Winner: Meet Aaron Oberman
Meet Aaron Oberman, IT Network Services Manager at Foremost Farms. Over more than two decades working with Foremost Farms, Aaron has grown into a key leader overseeing the setup, security, and upkeep of the cooperative’s network systems, ensuring operations run smoothly and reliably.