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Organic Milk Supply
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Organic Milk Supply  
Organic Milk Supply

Note 15 – Organic Milk Supply

 

To increase the supply of organic milk available to the Company for the manufacture of finished goods, the Company is purchasing mature dairy cows (or the “herd”) which will be managed by a third-party dairy facility (the “Dairy”), and entered into a supply and purchase agreement (“SPA”) with a COOP (the “COOP”) to purchase the milk produced by the herd.

 

The Company purchased 402 mature dairy cows during the third quarter of 2025 for $1,335 and plans further mature dairy cow purchases in the future.

 

As amended in September 2025, the Company entered into a sixty month agreement (the “Herd Agreement”) with a third-party Dairy who will manage care of the herd, milk the herd, and sell the milk to the COOP under the SPA, with a right to purchase the herd at the end of the agreement period for a nominal amount. Beginning December 1, 2025, the Dairy will make monthly payments to Lifeway over the five year agreement period in exchange for its right to possess and control the herd, including the rights to sell milk produced by the herd to the COOP.

 

The herd agreement is treated as a sale of non-financial assets to a party that is not a customer. The Company will recognize a sale upon the delivery of each herd to the Dairy, with interest income recognized over the agreement period. The Company has recorded $184 in prepaid and other current assets and $1,151 in other assets as of September 30, 2025 related to the herd agreement with no recorded gain or loss on sale. The Company records the purchases of dairy cows as investing outflows, principal payments received as investing inflows and interest income as operating inflows on the statement of cash flows.