Farmer-owned Canastota Dairy Products makes bulk milk and cream ingredients alongside small-batch sour cream and yogurt at its Canastota, New York plant. Using milk from New York farms, the company supplies processors and manufacturers across the Northeast while also offering private-label and co-manufacturing programs for branded dairy products. Its products carry NYS Grown & Certified, OU Kosher, gluten-free, and rBST-free designations.
Gluten Free
NYS Grown & Certified
OU Kosher Certified
rBST Free
Compliance program
North Country CreameryOverlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains, North Country Creamery is a small-scale Keeseville dairy producing farmstead cheese, cream-line yogurt, and raw milk from its own 100% grass-fed herd. Owners Ashlee Kleinhammer and Steven Googin run the 115-acre, first-generation farm, where Jersey and heritage Milking Shorthorn cows are rotationally grazed and milked once a day. The creamery is Animal Welfare Approved, Non-GMO, NYS Grown & Certified, and sells its products through the Clover Mead Cafe & Farmstore and regional outlets.KEESEVILLE, NY
Byrne DairyFounded in 1933, Central New York’s Byrne Dairy makes refrigerated extended-shelf-life and shelf-stable aseptic dairy beverages for private-label, co-manufacturing, and its own Byrne Dairy brand. The company operates five plants and warehouses with 600 employees, drawing most of its milk from farms within 50 miles and maintaining direct daily pickup relationships with local farmers. Byrne also produces Mighty Fine ice cream, a line it has made since 1978.LAFAYETTE, NY
Kriemhild Dairy Farms, LLCFarmer-owned Kriemhild Dairy Farms makes small-batch butter and other dairy foods in Hamilton from milk sourced from grass-based herds in Central New York. Founded by the Rivington family after they purchased Red Gate Farm in 2000, the creamery brought butter-making and packaging in-house in 2019. Its signature Meadow Butter is slowly churned from organic, grass-fed milk, connecting the finished product directly to the pastures that supply it.HAMILTON, NY
UNC DairyUNC Dairy, also known as Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc., is a farmer-owned dairy cooperative that processes and manufactures a wide range of dairy products. With over 230 local family farms and more than 1,800 employees, the cooperative operates multiple facilities across New York and Pennsylvania, producing fluid milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, dips, and other dairy items. The company is known for its award-winning products, including Bison® French Onion Dip and Upstate Farms® yogurts, and offers private label, co-packing, and bulk dairy solutions.NORTH LAWRENCE, NY