The scholarship program is supported by the Foremost Farms USA Charitable Foundation.

Foremost Farms USA, headquartered in Baraboo, Wis., is a cooperative owned by 2,100 dairy farmers in the Upper Midwest. The cooperative’s 1,100 employees manufacture and market many varieties of American and Italian cheese, whey-based ingredients, butter and bulk fluid milk to domestic and international customers. Foremost Farms’ 16 plants are located in Wisconsin and Minnesota, with a marketing office in Indianapolis, Ind. In 2010, Foremost Farms revenues were $1.4 billion.