Sponsorship overview

Dairy farming is the largest sector of Ontario agriculture, and Dairy Farmers of Ontario is the marketing group that represents them. It's made up of the same farmers who run the farms, and who produce the milk and dairy that you put on your table. DFO is proudly owned and operated by Ontario's dairy farm families. It's our mission to provide leadership and excellence in the production and marketing of Canadian milk. 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.