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The Isigny Sainte-Mère Cooperative venture began with the construction of a dairy in Chef-du-Pont, a village near Sainte-Mère-Église. As early as 1910, the Sainte-Mère-Église dairy cooperative was already receiving 20 horse-drawn carriages carrying 11,000 litres of milk from 90 farms! In 1911, just one year later, the collection had increased to 6 million litres of milk and had 200 members. In 1932, in the neighbouring county, 42 milk producers located around the town of Isigny-sur-Mer also decided to join forces and pool their milk to produce and market Isigny Butter and Cream along with Normandy cheeses. This project led to the creation of the Isigny-sur-Mer Dairy Cooperative. In 1979, the idea of a union between the Isigny-sur-Mer and Sainte-Mère-Église Cooperatives emerged, and this became a reality in 1980. With additional collection areas and a shared ambition, the two cooperatives merged to create the Isigny Sainte-Mère Cooperative.