Background
Land O’Lakes, Inc. Is a member-owned Agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburbs 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, handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually. Land O’Lakes is ranked third on the National Cooperative Bank Co-op 100 list of mutuals and cooperatives. The Co-op is one of the largest producers of butter and cheese in the United States.