Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) is the marketing board for the largest sector of Ontario agriculture. Our mission is to provide leadership and excellence in the production and marketing of Canadian milk for a dynamic, profitable growing dairy industry. Ontario’s 3,273 dairy farmers, their families and employees are proud to produce high-quality milk for Canadians.
Ontario dairy farmers live every day with passion and purpose, generation after generation. Here are some of their stories.
A local Ontario family that have been raising purebred Holsteins and producing excellent quality dairy since 1975
Located in Arthur, Ontario for over 60 years, the Kruls have been humbly producing great quality dairy for their community and beyond.
The Sayles family proudly represents more than 150 years of dairy farming and 56 years of agricultural support at the Paris Fair.
The Martin family is committed to providing the highest quality dairy products to Ontarians.
Over the past 175 years in Oshawa the mention of dairy farming has almost always been followed up with “The Werrys”.
Armstrong Manor Farm, Caledon, Ontario
Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) is the marketing board for the largest sector of Ontario agriculture. Our mission is to provide leadership and excellence in the production and marketing of Canadian milk for a dynamic, profitable growing dairy industry.
The origin of what would eventually become Dairy Farmers of Ontario goes back over 50 years to the Milk Act of 1965. The Milk Act called for the creation of a body that would buy all the milk produced on Ontario farms and sell it to the processors. As a result, the Ontario Milk Marketing Board was created. Thirty years later, Dairy Farmers of Ontario was created following the merger of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board and the Ontario Cream Producers’ Marketing Board.
Ontario government commissions study to improve milk marketing.
The Milk Act is passed and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board is created.
Ontario legislation creates Dairy Farmers of Ontario.
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