Quarterly Newsletter: Read current industry information and updates from IDA staff, associate members, and industry partners.
Protecting Idaho’s dairy industry through environmental, legal, and legislative efforts since 1924.
3rd in the U.S.
in terms of milk production
90% of on-dairy jobs
are filled by foreign born labor
Idaho dairy generates
$10.7 billion
in total sales
718,288
Milk cows in Idaho
353
Total dairy operations
33K
Jobs created by Idaho’s
dairy industry
Glanbia Nutritionals Twin Falls, Gooding,
Richfield & Blackfoot
Agropur, Jerome Cheese Jerome
Darigold Boise, Caldwell, Jerome
Lactalis Nampa
High Desert Milk Burley
Idaho Milk Products Jerome
Magic Valley Quality Milk Producers Jerome
Chobani Twin Falls
Gossner Foods Heyburn
Brewster Cheese Rupert
Meadowgold Boise
Commercial Creamery Jerome
Litehouse Foods Sandpoint
Reed’s Dairy Idaho Falls
Boise Milk Boise
Ballard Family Dairy & Cheese Gooding
Cloverleaf Creamery Buhl
Manwaring Cheese Rigby
Marathon Cheese Mountain Home
IDA’s Worker Training & Safety Program provides ongoing, verifiable training designed to improve job performance and worker safety on dairies.
It is critical that congress works to find common sense solutions for the labor crisis facing agriculture in Idaho.”
Employee training meetings on our dairy now include IDA’s Tailgate Talks. I even found myself learning a few new things from them!”
Soil health is an absolutely critical part of ensuring that agriculture remains productive and sustainable.”
