Question: Where is the cooperative, with which Milk Link merged in 2012, based?

Context articles: Arla Foods
Land O'Lakes
Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
Co-op Kobe
Great River Energy
Banas Dairy
Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad
SanCor
Maola
Milk Link

Arla Foods is an international cooperative based in Viby, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.
 Arla Foods was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000.
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St.
 Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, focusing on the dairy industry.
 The co-op states that it has about 3,600 direct producer-members, 1,000 member-cooperatives, and about 10,000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural producers; handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually.
 It is ranked third on the National Cooperative Bank Co-op 100 list of mutuals and cooperatives.
 The co-op is one of the largest producers of butter and cheese in the United States.
Dairylea Cooperative Inc. was a dairy cooperative which was founded in 1907 as The Dairymen's League when group of dairy farmers in Orange County, New York united to increase their bargaining power.
 By the 1920s, the Cooperative's membership had increased to more than 100,000 farms.
 While based initially in Pearl River, New York, the organization was most recently headquartered in East Syracuse, New York.
 They renamed themselves after their most famous product, Dairylea Milk.
Co-op Kobe (Japanese: コープこうべ ), officially known as Consumer Co-operative Kobe, is a consumers' cooperative based in Kobe, Japan.
 It was founded in 1921 by Toyohiko Kagawa, and was later merged with Nada Consumer Co-operative.
 Now, with over 1.2 million members, it is the largest consumers' cooperative in the world.
Great River Energy is an electric transmission and generation cooperative in the U.S. state of Minnesota; it is the state's second largest electric utility, based on generating capacity, and the fifth largest generation and transmission cooperative in the U.S. in terms of assets.
 Great River Energy was formed in 1999 when Cooperative Power Association and United Power Association merged.
Banas Dairy (Gujarati: બનાસ ડેરી )(Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur) is a dairy based in Banaskantha district of Gujarat, India and is Asia’s No.1 in milk production.
 It was founded in 1969 according to the 1961 rule of the National Dairy Development Board under Operation Flood.
 Galbabhai Nanjibhai Patel played an important role in the foundation of the dairy.
 It is headquartered at Palanpur.
The Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (IC&E) (reporting mark ICE) was a Class II railroad operating in the north central United States.
 It has been controlled by the Canadian Pacific Railway and operated as a part of its system since October 30, 2008.
 Formerly, the IC&E was jointly owned with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad by Cedar American Rail Holdings (CARH), making the combined system the largest class II railroad in the US.
 Created by the purchase of I&M Rail Link, IC&E commenced operations on July 30, 2002.
 The 1400 mi line, based in Davenport, Iowa, serves the states of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
 Principal commodities include chemicals, coal, steel, automobiles, and agricultural products.
 Train dispatching is performed at a joint DM&E/IC&E facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 On December 26, 2008, the IC&E was merged into parent CARH, which immediately merged into the DM&E.
SanCor is one of the leading dairy producers in Argentina (along with competitor La Serenísima).
 It holds one fifth of the total production in the country, and 90% of the Argentine exports of dairy products.
 It is a large cooperative made up many smaller ones, based on the Argentine "central milk basin" around the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba.
Maola Milk & Ice Cream Company, Inc. is a dairy company located in New Bern, North Carolina, United States.
 Products are distributed throughout North Carolina as well as parts of South Carolina and Virginia including milk, ice cream, juices, custard and novelties.
 The company has been a subsidiary of Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association, Inc. since being acquired in 2003, based in Reston, Virginia.
Milk Link is a large dairy company in the United Kingdom.
 It is the UK's largest dairy cooperative and the UK's largest producer of cheese.
 In 2012 the company merged with Arla Foods.