Rogue Creamery
Small — one creamery and one 68-acre dairy farm.
Central Point and Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
roguecreamery.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
Owns the herd AND makes the cheese, with the dairy certified organic by Oregon Tilth and the cheeses certified thereafter — a rare closed loop for an American creamery. Rogue River Blue was crowned World Champion at the 2019 World Cheese Awards, the first American cheese ever to win; that is the clearest 'materially exceeds category norms' evidence in this batch.
- Scale
- Small — one creamery and one 68-acre dairy farm.
- Feed & inputs
- Organic dairy standard applies to the home herd.
- Animal welfare
- Not separately certified; the organic livestock standard covers outdoor access and prohibits routine antibiotics.
- Environmental
- B Corp assessment covers environmental impact; waste and recycling programmes published.
- Transparency
- HIGH — publishes its history, certifications, dates and awards with specifics.
Caveats
REGISTRY: no operation named 'Rogue Creamery' appears in the USDA Organic dataset we hold; the closest row, 'Palace Industries Public Benefit Corporation' (CROPS Certified, LIVESTOCK Surrendered, no city recorded), could NOT be confirmed as the same legal entity and is therefore NOT counted either way. The organic credential here rests on the producer's own dated publication naming Oregon Tilth as certifier — producer_published evidence, not a registry match.
Oregon cheesemaker founded on the 1935 Rogue River Valley Co-Op. Owns a 68-acre dairy farm in Grants Pass, USDA Certified Organic by Oregon Tilth since January 2016; its blue cheeses became certified organic in September 2016. Oregon's first Public Benefit Corporation and a certified B Corp.
Products
blue cheeseRogue River Bluecheddarorganic cheeses
Practices
owns and milks its own certified-organic 68-acre dairy farmraw-milk cheeses made under the first US raw-milk cheese export health certificateformal cheesemaker apprenticeship programmeB Corp certified; Oregon's first Public Benefit Corporation (2013)
Certifications
USDA Certified Organic (Oregon Tilth) — 68-acre Grants Pass dairy farm, January 2016; blue cheeses certified organic September 2016Certified B Corporation
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- roguecreamery.com ↗
68-acre organic dairy farm, Oregon Tilth certification dates, B Corp, Public Benefit Corporation, 2019 World Cheese Awards