Wisconsin Ag Connection - Foremost Farms, Michigan Milk to Expand Strategic Alliance

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Foremost Farms, Michigan Milk to Expand Strategic Alliance
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 03/21/2018

The Baraboo-based Foremost Farms USA and Michigan Milk Producers Association have signed an agreement to work together in various capacities in hopes of addressing an oversupply of milk in the region.

Specifically, the companies signed a memorandum of understanding that formalizes advanced discussions between the two organizations to pursue proposed co-investment opportunities, such as the Middlebury Cheese Company and the recently announced dairy campus in Greenville, Michigan. It also incorporates expanding the current strategic alliance the two cooperatives have had in place since 2014 at the MMPA Constantine plant with the reverse osmosis investment.

"We collectively believe more immediate investment is needed to satisfy the imbalance between milk production and milk solids processing capacity," said Foremost Farms CEO Mike Doyle. "With our commitment of the first phase of the dairy campus at Greenville, Mich., planned to be operational Fall of 2018, we believe this arrangement will help satisfy that need and create value-added processing growth"

Doyle says the intent of the MOU is to further address the imbalance in supply and capacity limits that many dairy plants are experiencing in this part of the country.

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