Whey Street Dairy

Dairy Marketing Services in a milk-marketing organization that serves the dairy-producing industry by combining the milk supplies of independent and cooperative farms in the national marketplace for the purposes of creating efficiency and the reduction of cost on milk assembly, field services and transportation. These services make it possible for dairy producers to effectively and efficiently market milk in the most profitable way. In October 2002, Dairy Marketing Services introduced a hauler purchase program that allows haulers to take advantage of group buying rates on tractors, tires, parts and more. The company s customers include Kraft Foods, Saputo, Sorrento Cheese, Dean Foods, Leprino Foods, Great Lakes Cheese and HP Hood. It is also a supplier for smaller fluid and manufacturing companies. Dairy Marketing Services is based in East Syracuse, N.Y.

Dairy One Cooperative, established in 1997, is an information technology cooperative created by Dairylea Cooperative and the Northeast Dairy Hear Improvement Association. The company provides farm management information services throughout the United States. It offers DHIA, producer payment and dairy research analysis, as well as dairy management records tailored to the needs of individual farmers. Dairies can purchase as much or as little service as needed to manage profitability through five service schemes: meters only, tech only, diary select, traditional records and labor efficient records. In addition, the cooperative serves as a source for both single and double cow identification tags. Dairy One Cooperative has head offices in Ithaca, N.Y.