Ampi history

In spite of all the scandals and convictions, C-TAPE continued to operate successfully and was instrumental in winning further price supports for milk as soon after the turmoil as 1976.

The co-op had about 32,000 members in 20 states and Canada by 1981, and its annual sales had reached $2.4 billion.

In 1983, C-TAPE helped in the defeat of a bill in Congress that would have cut price supports for dairy farms.

AMPI's 23,300 member farms were delivering about 15.7 billion pounds of milk by 1985, and the company's revenue remained around $2.4 billion.

By 1988, the co-op marketed well over 17 billion pounds of milk, compared with 7.5 billion pounds for its closest rival, Mid-America Dairymen.

Under general manager Ira Rutherford, the co-op earned over $12 million in 1989, triple the previous year's figure, on sales of just under $3 billion.

As the 1990s began, things took a turn for the worse at AMPI. In 1990, farm milk prices took a 25 percent plunge.

In the summer of 1992, the company opened a new cheese plant south of Roswell, New Mexico.

AMPI's 13,400 member farms delivered 15.7 billion pounds of milk in 1993, about 11 percent of the nation's total supply.

1999 - Oklahoma Dairymen’s FCU

In 2000, Houston Milk Producers Federal Credit Union changed our name to Members Trust of the Southwest Federal Credit Union, in order to more accurately reflect our diversified and growing field of membership.

2001: Earnings reach $10.8 million on sales of $1.2 billion.

Henson said this was the first significant closure in the northeast Iowa county since Art's Way Manufacturing in West Union, a maker of agricultural equipment, shut down its operation around 2015.