For more than 30 years, the National Cooperative Bank (NCB) has published its list of top 100 cooperatives across the U.S. For the latest list—based on 2022 data—47 of the 100 cooperatives are in agriculture. In all, 59% of the $319 billion in generated revenues of co-operatives are from those ag-focused co-ops: $187.6 billion.
NCB estimates one in three Americans are a member of a co-op, and NCB provides comprehensive banking products and services to cooperatives and other member-owned organizations in the U.S.
The agricultural cooperatives range from farm supply, grain, dairy, livestock marketing, crop production/processing and more.
Here’s a list of the agriculture-focused cooperatives, with their top 100 ranking.
1 CHS Inc. Inver Grove Heights MN
2 Dairy Farmers of America Kansas City KS
3 Land O’Lakes, Inc. Arden Hills MN
4 GROWMARK, Inc. Bloomington IL
11 Ag Processing Inc. Omaha NE
14 California Dairies, Inc. Visalia CA
15 Prairie Farms Dairy Inc. Edwardsville IL
18 Agtegra Cooperative, Inc. Aberdeen SD
19 Central Valley Ag Cooperative York NE
20 Darigold Seattle WA
22 Select Milk Producers, Inc. Artesia NM
23 New Cooperative, Inc. Fort Dodge IA
25 Landus Cooperative Ames IA
26 Foremost Farms USA Cooperative Baraboo WI
27 Countrymark Cooperative Holding Corporation Indianapolis IN
30 Associated Milk Producers, Inc New Ulm MN
31 MFA Incorporated Columbia MO
33 Ocean Spray Middleboro MA
34 Heartland Co-op West Des Moines IA
37 GreenPoint Ag Decatur AL
39 American Crystal Sugar Co. Moorhead MN
40 Aurora Cooperative Elevator Company Aurora NE
42 United Cooperative Beaver Dam WI
43 Plains Cotton Co-op Association Lubbock TX
44 Producers Livestock Marketing Association Omaha NE
45 Blue Diamond Growers Sacramento CA
47 MFA Oil Company Columbia MO
50 Farmers Cooperative Dorchester NE
51 Upstate-Niagara cooperative, Inc. Buffalo NY
54 Michigan Milk Producers Association Novi MI
55 MD & VA Milk Producers Cooperative Association Herndon VA
56 Cooperative Producers, Inc. Hastings NE
59 Agri-Mark Inc./Cabot Creamery Methuen MA
62 Riceland Foods, Inc. Stuttgart AR
63 Organic Valley (CROPP) La Farge WI
65 Staple Cotton Cooperative Association Greenwood MS
67 Heritage Cooperative Delaware OH
68 First District Association Litchfield MN
69 Amalgamated Sugar Company Boise ID
71 United Producers, Inc Columbus OH
76 Ceres Solutions Cooperative Crawfordsville IN
77 Innovative Ag Services Co. Monticello IA
79 Bongards’ Creameries Chanhassen MN
80 Pacific Coast Producers Lodi CA
84 National Farmers Ames IA
93 Florida’s Natural Growers, Inc. Lake Wales FL
