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The co-operative includes 150 dairy farms mostly within Tillamook County. Products produced by the co-operative include milk, cheese, ice cream, sour cream and yoghurt. Their most famous product is Tillamook Cheese.
In 1854, several farmers from the county built a schooner to transport butter to Portland, Oregon. Peter McIntosh and T. S. Townsend established the county's first cheese factory in 1894. The assocation was founded by dairy farmers in 1909.
In 2000, the association bought the cheese co-operative in Bandon, Oregon, then closed its cheese-making facilities in that town a few years later. The association has since gained more animosity from that community in its enforcement of the Bandon Cheese trademark against local businesses.