St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, Inc

St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, located in St. Albans, Vt., was established in 1919 to give dairy farmers a reliable market and fair price for their product. It operates a 'straight-line' manufacturing facility that separates milk, process cream, skim and skim condensed milk and dry milk to powder. Members have access to laboratory and improvement resources and the cooperative owned store. In addition, they may receive dividends on purchases and participate in interest-free grain and fertilizer purchase programs and group health insurance programs. The company encourages active participation of its membership in decisions that affect the Cooperative. St. Albans Cooperative's decision-making process is determined by owning one share of voting common stock and active milk production. One share of this stock per farm is issued at the cost of $1.00 per share when a farmer becomes a legal member of the Cooperative.