Dairy Farmers of America, Select Milk Producers, Glanbia to build cheese processing plant
The new facility will process 8 million pounds of milk per day into a range of cheese (300 million pounds per year) and whey products for U.S. and international markets.
Glanbia Nutritionals, Evanston, Ill.; Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), Kansas City, Kan.; and Select Milk Producers Inc., Artesia, N.M., announced plans to build a large-scale cheese and whey production facility in St. Johns, Mich.
The $470 million joint venture project is expected to be operational fourth quarter of 2020.