Dairylea Cooperative Inc. was a dairy cooperative which was founded in 1907 as The Dairymen's League when group of dairy farmers in Orange County, New York united to increase their bargaining power.
[1] While it changed and adapted over the years, Dairylea helped manage the sale and distribution of raw milk from more than 2,500 farms producing 5.5 billion pounds of milk annually.
[2] In 2001, it was the largest marketer of raw milk in the northeastern United States.
[1] The cooperative was a part of the National Milk Producers Federation.
[4] Dairylea merged with Dairy Farmers of America on April 1, 2014.