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Farmers First For More Than A Century

From day one, our local farmer-owners have set the standard. It's how we've always done things around here.

100+ Years of Dairy

Our Story Goes Way Back. Before Hashtags, Electric Scooters, or Even TVs.

Yeah, a lot has changed. But our commitment to our cows, communities, and farmers hasn’t. Today, we’re taking our decades of dairy knowledge and creating new delightfully delicious products that fit your everyday life.

1918

The United Dairymen's Association of Washington formed.

1920

Consolidated Dairy Products Company is formed as a milk broker and marketer.

1925

The name "Darigold" emerges as a trade name for the products brokered under the United Dairymen's and Consolidated Dairy Products.

1932

The United States patent office issues a trademark for the name "Darigold."

1941

United Dairymen’s Association has grown to over 40 cooperatives across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and North Dakota.

1950

The Washington Milk Producer’s association, with over 600 producers, joins the United Dairymen’s Association.

1951

From 1951-1956, a concentrated milk product is developed, excellent for faraway markets like Alaska or Asia and aboard ships at sea.

1960

From 1960-1965, the company’s milk is being delivered directly to supermarkets in a new package called the milk carton.

1974

Darigold producers hit the "Big B," producing 1,054,000,000 pounds of raw milk.

1981

Mayflower Farms, the largest dairy-farmer cooperative in Oregon, merges with NDA (formerly United Dairymen's Association), growing the company by one-third and bringing the number of producers to 1,475.

1992

Darigold is shipping almost 95 million pounds of powdered milk to more than a dozen foreign countries. The company is responsible for almost 50 percent of U.S. dairy exports.

1998

Darigold produces longer-lasting ultra-pasteurized (UP) milk products in Boise, ID. The company changes its name to WestFarm Foods in 1999, but reverts back to Darigold in 2006.

1999

The second phase of the expansion of the cheese plant in Sunnyside, WA is completed. It now processes 4.1 MM lbs of milk into 400K lbs of cheese every day.

2003

Darigold installs a new butter churn at Issaquah, WA, one of the largest vacuum-style churns ever to be imported into the United States.

2006

Darigold commits to producing and selling only milk from cows not treated with rBST.

2007

Darigold is hailed “Exporter of the Year” by Dairy Field magazine.

2016

The company invests over $97 million on further expansion of the Sunnyside, WA, plant to increase milk processing capability of nearby NDA farms’ milk.

2017