Essential to the culture of Dairy Farmers of America, innovation moves our Cooperative forward, brings us together and makes us stronger. While innovation often means targeting solutions to problems and looking at new ways of doing things, innovation at DFA is ultimately about finding opportunities — ones we might not even know exist yet — to position the Cooperative and our family farm-owners for future success. From researching and developing new products to take to market to implementing technology that creates efficiencies in our plants, we are committed to achieving innovation in all that we do.

As a community of family farm-owners and employees around the country — and the globe — we are always looking for ways to be more collaborative across the Cooperative. Our innovation program, called CoLAB, makes this possible. Initiatives in the CoLAB program include: