RE Magazine highlighted Dairyland's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) broadband grant success to help support its Fiber Deployment Project. The article - Co-ops Turn Federal Funding Into Better Quality of Life for Their Members - includes an interview with Dairyland President & CEO Brent Ridge. Ridge emphasized the importance of reliable internet for the communities Dairyland serves. 

“This will give residents the high-speed internet they need to work, learn, get access to telemedicine and improve the quality of their lives,” says Brent Ridge, the co-op’s president and CEO. “It also will help attract business into these rural areas. One of the first questions that companies ask before deciding where to locate a business is, ‘What’s the internet like?’ If we can help provide high-speed service, it will bring more—and better-paying—jobs for the people who live there.”