Butter and Cheese Settlement



If your business bought butter or cheese directly from a National Milk Producers Federation Cooperatives Working Together Program Member between December 6, 2008, and July 31, 2013, you could receive a payment from a $220 million settlement.



Settlement Amount: $220,000,000


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DEADLINE: April 23, 2021



CLASS PERIOD:



December 6, 2008 through July 31, 2013



CLASS MEMBERS:



All U.S. entities that purchased Butter and/or Cheese directly from one or more Defendants, Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) and/or their subsidiaries, during the period from December 6, 2008 to July 31, 2013.



cwt (Cooperatives working together) members





  • Arkansas Dairy Cooperative Association
  • Associated Milk Producers Inc.
  • Bongards Creameries
  • Burke Milk Producers Cooperative, Inc.
  • California Dairies Inc.
  • Cass-Clay Creamery Inc.
  • Champlain Milk Producers Cooperative
  • Conesus Milk Producers Cooperative Association, Inc.
  • Continental Dairy Products, Inc.
  • Cooperative Milk Producers Association, Inc.
  • Cortland Bulk Milk Producers Cooperative
  • Dairy Farmers of America
  • Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
  • Dairymen's Marketing Cooperative Inc.
  • Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery
  • Empire Keystone Cooperative
  • Farmers Cooperative Creamery
  • First District Cooperative Association
  • Foremost Farms USA
  • Humboldt Creamery Association
  • Jefferson Bulk Milk Cooperative, Inc.
  • Just Jersey Cooperative, Inc.
  • Land O'Lakes, Inc.
  • Lone Star Milk Producers
  • Lowville Producers Dairy Cooperative
  • Magic Valley Quality Milk Producers, Inc.
  • Manitowoc Milk Producers Cooperative


  • Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association
  • Massachusetts Coop. Milk Producers Fed. Inc.
  • Michigan Milk Producers Association
  • Mid-West Dairymen’s Co.
  • Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative Association
  • National Farmers Organization
  • North Lawrence Producers Cooperative, Inc.
  • Northwest Dairy Association (Darigold)
  • Oneida-Madison Milk Producers Cooperative
  • Prairie Farms Dairy Preble Cooperative,
  • River Valley Milk Producers Inc.
  • Schoharie County Cooperative Dairies
  • Seaway Bulk Milk Producers Cooperative, Inc.
  • Security Milk Producers Association
  • Select Milk Producers, Inc.
  • Snake River Dairymen's Association
  • South New Berlin Milk Cooperative, Inc.
  • Southeast Milk, Inc.
  • St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, Inc.
  • Swiss Valley Farms, Co.
  • Tillamook County Creamery Association
  • United Dairy Cooperative Services, Inc.
  • United Dairymen of Arizona
  • Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc.
  • Utah Dairy Farmers Cooperative
  • Western Tier Milk Producers Cooperative
  • Zia Milk Producers Inc.


BACKGROUND:



Plaintiffs claim that from December 6, 2008 through July 31, 2013, Defendants violated the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §1, and conspired and combined to limit the production of raw farm milk through premature “herd retirements” that required dairy farmers who participated in a herd retirement to remove all of the milking cows in their herds and, beginning on April 1, 2009, forego a 10% incentive payment if they wished to reenter the dairy farming business within one year. The Complaint alleges that the principal purpose and effect of this contract, combination and conspiracy has been to eliminate competition, significantly reduce the number of dairy farmers competing in the market and produce both short-term and long-term increases in the prices of butter and cheese. Defendants deny these claims.



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