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Melissa Hughes: “When I joined [Organic Valley], we had about 500 farmers…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Published | Video Starts at 01:38

And I keep saying we, even though it's my past job. It's your past job during your 16 years. Correct. Organic Valley grew from what to what number of products? The volume. When I joined [Organic Valley], we had about 500 farmers. And today we're over 2,000 farmers. So we're a farmer owned co. Op. So our farmers are our owners. And we have them 36 states, Australia and Great Britain. Australia. Yeah. What do we get from Australia? (01:38–01:44)

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