As a state agency that both regulates and promotes the industry, ODA is poised to assist farmers, ranchers, food processors, and the many others involved with agriculture to achieve success. Our three-fold mission includes natural resource protection, food safety and consumer protection, and agricultural marketing.

Oregon is throwing a 150th birthday party and you are invited. Celebrate the state's sesquicentennial in 2009 by getting involved now.

Senate Bill 235 (2007) created the Dairy Air Quality Task Force to study the air emissions from Oregon dairy operations and evaluate options for reducing those emissions taking into account a number of potentially competing factors. Represented stakeholders include members of the Oregon dairy industry, Oregon state government, environmental-public health interest groups and academia. The Task Force is to present its findings and recommendations to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Department of Agriculture by July 1, 2008.