About OGC - history

Till the beginning of 2009 the organic goat farmers from the Netherlands and Belgium were spread over many processors in the Netherlands for the sales of their milk. There was great pressure on the price and at a certain moment there was even talk of excessive milk, therefore the price was threatening to fall. The association De Groene Geit took the initiative to establish a corporation for organic goat farmers.

Towards the summer of 2009 the Organic Goatmilk Coöperatie was raised and immediately goat farmers from the Netherlands and Belgium decided to organise the sale of their milk through the cooperation. In the first full year in operation, 2010, over 7 million kg milk was collected from 20 members and sold. Since 2009 the cooperation has grown fast, actually doubled, both in number of members as in milk volume. Most organic goat farmers from Belgium and the Netherlands are members of the cooperation and OGC is now the biggest provider of organic goat milk in Europe. At the end of 2013 a group of German goat farmers from the federal state of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen joined the OGC. At the end of 2021, the cooperative had 55 members.