Glanbia Cheese Gooding Plant, Idaho

Glanbia is the largest producer of American-style cheese in the US, and a major supplier of whey ingredients. The company makes all of its product at four locations: three in southern Idaho’s Magic Valley, and one in Clovis, New Mexico. The company’s headquarters are in Twin Falls, where it also operates a plant which processes almost three million pounds of milk every day, and makes around 110 million pounds of cheese a year. In Richfield, the company operates one of the largest dedicated whey processing facilities in the US. In Gooding, Glanbia operates a large whey plant, and this cheese plant, one of the largest in the world, making 500-pound barrels of American cheese, which is mostly made into slices by other companies elsewhere.