Agribusiness  April 10, 2022

Dairy growth plateaus after Leprino surge

Denver-based Leprino Foods Co.’s Greeley plant has helped to double the size of Weld County’s dairy industry over the past decade. Courtesy Leprino Foods Co.
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GREELEY — Weld County’s dairy industry surged in the past decade, with numerous expansions to serve demand from Leprino Foods Co.’s new mozzarella-cheese manufacturing plant in Greeley.

But as Leprino’s facility enters its 11th year of operation, there are signs that the era of massive dairy expansions in Weld County might be ending.

Denver-based Leprino opened its Greeley plant in late 2011 on the former site of the Great Western Sugar Co. factory, with expansions eventually taking the facility to 795,000 square feet and more than 500 employees.

Today, Leprino’s Greeley operation processes 8 million pounds of milk per day — or…

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Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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