Making of Land O Lakes

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, focusing on the dairy industry. The co-op states that it has about 3,600 direct producer-members, 1,000 member-cooperatives, and about 10,000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural producers;^[1] handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually.^[2] It is ranked third on the National Cooperative Bank Co-op 100 list of mutuals and cooperatives.^[3] The co-op is one of the largest producers of butter and cheese in the United States.