We bring dairy food samples, entertainment and prizes to events and promotions near you. 

January

Find Balance with Yoga & Yogurt
Dairy Farmers of Oregon join forces with New Seasons Market to encourage you to find balance with yoga and yogurt.  Yoga is a healthy way to relax and yogurt’s healthful versatility makes it flexible in the kitchen.

Five ways yogurt adds balance to life.

Promotion launches mid-January, 2012

February

Cookies & Milk

Partnering with the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington yields delicious results, as lovers of cookies-and-milk carry on a classic debate: Is it best to dunk your Girl Scout Cookies in your glass of milk or not?

February 1 to March 11, 2012 

Find cookie sales near you at cookielocator.littlebrownie.com

Oregon Dairy Farmers Annual Convention
It’s the 118th Oregon Dairy Farmers Annual Convention, where the Oregon Dairy Products Commission and the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association come together for two days of informative meetings in Salem.

February 20 & 21, 2012

Salem Conference Center

More information

March 

Oregon Cheese Festival
Oregon-inspired culinary event, including a Meet-the-Winemakers and Cheesemakers Dinner and a farmer’s market-style artisan food and wine festival hosted by the Oregon Cheese Guild.

March 17, 2012

10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rogue Creamery, Central Point
www.oregoncheeseguild.com

April

Ag Fest

The Dairy Farmers of Oregon exhibit is one of the many exhibits at this activity filled festival where kids and grown-ups can touch, taste and experience life on the farm.

April 28-29, 2012

Oregon State Fairgrounds, Salem

www.oragfest.com

May

June

Dairy Farmers of Oregon Milk Carton Boat Race

Children and Adults race and show off handmade boats that float entirely by means of recycled milk cartons and jugs.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Westmoreland Park Casting Pond, Portland’s Sellwood Neighborhood

Join the Fun.

July

Dairy Farmers of Oregon Ice Cream Churn-a-ment

An all-star group of local chefs demonstrate ice cream recipes developed to capture the taste of summer in Oregon using old-fashioned hand crank churns while they race to completion.

Ice cream lovers of all ages are invited to watch the competition and sample some of the 22 million gallons of ice cream produced in Oregon every year.

July 13, 2012

Noon to 1 p.m.

Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

August

American Cheese Society Competition and Conference

This annual cheese industry event features a competition and conference all catered towards cheesemakers, and special events for cheese lovers.

August 1-4, 2012

Raleigh, NC

www.cheesesociety.org

www.oregoncheeseguild.com 

Tillamook County Fair

The Dairy Farmers of Oregon host an engaging display at the Tillamook County Fair, which attracts about 70,000 fairgoers.

August 8-11, 2012

Commercial Exhibit Building, Tillamook County Fair

www.tillamookfair.com/

Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival

Dairy Farmers of Oregon help sponsor this emerging 3-day outdoor country music festival located near the historic community of Brownsville.  This fantastic event is the Pacific Northwest's fastest growing concert and camping experience featuring more than a dozen of country music's biggest stars!

August 17-19, 2012

Promotion April 23 - May 31, 2012

willamettecountrymusicfestival.com/

Oregon State Fair

The Dairy Farmers of Oregon have an interactive display at the Oregon State Fair and also sponsor several contests and activities.

August 24 – September 3, 2012

Americraft Cookware Center (Jackman-Long Building)
Oregon State Fair, Salem

www.oregonstatefair.org

September

Name Those Beaver Biceps

The Dairy Farmers of Oregon promote chocolate milk for OSU football players as part of a comprehensive approach to post-exercise recovery from strenuous workouts. This contest is part of a broader initiative to educate fans about the benefits of chocolate milk as a sports recovery drink for serious athletes.

Runs throughout the 2012 Oregon State University football season

www.beaverbiceps.com/

October

The Wedge: Portland Celebrates Cheese Festival

The Wedge Cheese Festival is hosted by the Oregon Cheese Guild at the Green Dragon Pub on SE 9th and Belmont. The whole street is closed off so cheesemakers from around the Northwest can share their wares. A great chance to sample and buy cheeses that are the best in the region and some that are impossible to get anywhere else!

October 6, 2012

Green Dragon Pub, Portland

www.dairyfarmersor.com/thewedge/

November

Butter Up the Holidays

Northwest Dairy Farmers celebrate butter with an original holiday recipe contest. The only required ingredient is delicious, creamy butter; the quintessential ingredient of holiday cooking and baking. Prizes and good times abound!

November 26 –December 31, 2012

www.butteruptheholidays.com/