Healthy, Humane, and Kosher*

Organic Valley is a farmer-owned co-op. It all started in 1988 with seven founding farmers. Today the cooperative has  grown  to 1,652 families producing 200 organic products, most of which are kosher!  In the past 22 years, family farms from across the country have joined the co-op. This expansion has empowered Organic Valley to create regional models, letting people buy milk from farms close to home.

When the co-op was founded over two decades ago, there were no official government guidelines for organic. To this day, the farmers of Organic Valley have an enhanced understanding and requirement for organic production that even surpasses the laws and guidelines of the USDA. They require