The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative owned by Agri-Mark.[1] The cooperative has a plant in Cabot, Vermont, but its administrative headquarters is in Waitsfield, Vermont.[1]
History
The original plant had a total investment of $3,700, which was paid by 94 farmers in proportion to the number of cattle which each owned. The cooperative started out making butter with the excess milk produced, and began shipping its products south. In 1930, it started making cheese. By 1960, the cooperative had 600 member farmers, although the number of farms in Vermont and across the nation was steadily shrinking.
Following a decline in membership, the Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery merged in 1992 with Agri-Mark, a cooperative of 1,800 farm families in New England and New York,[3] and was reincorporated as Cabot Creamery Cooperative Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Agri-mark. In 2008, there were about 400 Cabot farms in Vermont belonging to Agri-Mark.[4]