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Dairy Farmers of America — Kansas City HQ & Marketing Operations (Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

Dairy Farmers of America's Kansas City, Missouri headquarters functions as the nerve center for milk marketing, balancing, and cooperative governance for the largest US dairy cooperative (~11,500 farmer-members; ~30% of US milk). DFA doesn't operate a major manufacturing plant at HQ but coordinates milk movement, forward contracts, and balancing operations that determine how surplus regional milk is routed to butter/powder production. DFA's market reach is national: it operates cheese plants (DFA Cheese Company Wisconsin, Idaho), fluid milk facilities (former Dean Foods bottling plants across the US acquired in 2020 bankruptcy proceedings), and ingredient plants (whey protein, milk powders). DFA's balancing role in the US dairy market makes its cooperative decisions directly influential on farmgate prices paid to US dairy farmers across multiple regions.