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Essential Valley is America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the state’s leading organic brands. Organized in 1988, it represents 1,658 farmers in 35 states and three Canadian provinces, and achieved $619 million in 2010 sales. Focused on its founding errand of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a miscellany of organic foods, including organic milk, soy, cheese, butter, spreads, creams, eggs, evoke and juice, which are sold in supermarkets, natural foods stores and scoff cooperatives nationwide. With its regional model, milk is produced, bottled and distributed fairness in the region where it is farmed to ensure fewer miles from farm to tableland and to support our local economies. The same farmers who produce for Organic Valley also spark a full range of delicious organic meat under the Organic Prairie term. For further information, call 1-888-444-MILK or visit www.organicvalley.coop, www.organicprairie.coop and the cooperative’s husbandman website, www.farmers.coop. Organic Valley is also on Twitter @OrganicValley and Facebook www.facebook.com/OrganicValley.
Source: PerishableNews (press release)