The object of the study was an analysis of selected economic and financial parameters of operation of the dairy cooperatives surveyed, identify the trends of their changes and compare them with the results archived by the dairy industry in the whole. Information for the analysis were obtained from a questionnaire as wellas direct interviews with cooperatives presidents. They stated that for determining the effectiveness of dairy cooperatives one should adapt measures and indicators generally applied in enterprises. The level of inspected indicators didn’t differ indeed from observed values in the industry in the whole. Only the value of sales of dairy products was half higher than the average observed in the industry.