Cabot Creamery

Cabot Creamery Cooperative

The Cabot Creamery Visitor Center
Industry	Food processing
Founded	1919
Headquarters	Cabot, Vermont, United States
Website	cabotcheese.coop/

The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative, which is owned by local dairy farmers in New England and the Agri-Mark Cooperative company.

Originally started as Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery in 1919 by farmers in Cabot, Vermont, it was taken over by the Agri-Mark Cooperative in 1992. Although they are technically owned by Agri-Mark Co-op; local dairy farmers in New England own Cabot, also.

The original plant had an investment of $3,700 in total, which was paid by 94 farmers in proportion to the number of cattle which each owned. The cooperative started out making butter with the excess milk produced, and began shipping its products south. In 1930, it started making cheese. By 1960, the cooperative had 600 member farmers, though the number of farms in Vermont and across the nation were steadily shrinking.

Following a decline in membership, the Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery merged in 1992 with Agri-Mark, a cooperative of 1,800 farm families in New England and New York, and was reincorporated as Cabot Creamery Cooperative Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Agri-mark. In 2008, there were about 400 Cabot farms in Vermont belonging to Agri-Mark.

Cabot has facilities in many locations, including Cabot, Vermont, Route 100 in Waterbury, Vermont, and Quechee, Vermont, as well as a newly added store in Portland, Maine. Each location offers samples of products from the expansive line of Cabot goods, specialty foods from local vendors, and souvenirs. Additionally, at the Cabot Visitors Center, guided tours are given for those interested.

as of 2012^[update], about 1,200 members are in Vermont, upstate New York, and New England. The Rochdale Principles remain a part of the cooperative.

Cabot began marketing cheese internationally in 2007.

Wine Spectator listed Cabot cloth-bound cheddar as one of "100 great cheeses" of the world in 2008. Also in 2008, Cabot Monterey Jack received an award from the American Cheese Society.