Celebrating 59 Years This October marks 59 years since Dari Mart Stores first opened its doors in the Willamette Valley. The Gibson family is grateful to still serve our local communities from Albany to Cottage Grove decades later. Although our family was around and busy creating Lochmead Farms in the 1940s, it wasn’t until […]
VOTE NO ON MEASURE 118
What is it? Measure 118 is a gross receipts tax on businesses with more than $25 million in annual Oregon sales. The problem is the tax is on sales, not profit. Say a business has sales of $25 million a year but their expenses and current taxes equal that $25 million. Essentially they make enough […]
Corn Silage
From Harvest to Silage Lochmead Farms’ field corn is harvested and turned into corn silage to add to our cow feed. Corn silage makes up a large part of their diet, about 50% which is why at the end of every summer season we harvest on average 12,000 tons […]
Lochmead Farms and Dairy
Lochmead Farms, where Howard and Gladys Gibson began their lives together after marrying and moving down from Washington. After purchasing the first 120 acres, Howard and Gladys never looked back, expanding their farm acreage, adding a dairy farm, and eventually completing the vertical integration and selling their dairy products directly to the consumer through Dari […]