SALEM — The Oregon Dairy Farmers Association recently honored three people for their lifelong contributions to the industry.

The Community Service Award was presented to Dan and Carol Marie Leuthold, and the Distinguished Service Award was presented to Allan Hanselman.

Dan and Carol Marie are longtime members of the Oregon Farm Bureau. In 2006, Carol Marie became the first female president of the Tillamook County Farm Bureau and is currently a director on the Oregon Agriculture Education Foundation. Carol Marie is a past president of the Oregon Dairy Women and volunteers with her church.

Dan served on the Tillamook County Creamery Association Board of Directors for several years. He is also a current and longstanding member of the statewide CAFO Advisory Committee with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, representing dairy producers across the state.

Over the last seven years, the Leutholds have been involved with the Tillamook Working Lands & Waters Cooperative, a grassroots group organized by Oregonians for Food & Shelter and committed to the responsible stewardship of Tillamook County’s natural resources. TWLWC has been engaged with numerous tours for elected officials, a booth at the Tillamook County Fair, radio interviews and articles in the local paper.

They have a six-generation dairy farm that milks Holsteins and Jerseys and have been married since 1964. They have four children, 10 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

Allan Hanselman grew up on a registered Brown Swiss dairy in New York, Windy Acres Brown Swiss. He traveled across the country in the early 1990s to attend Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and majored in dairy science and animal husbandry before moving to Oregon in 1994.

Allan has been very successful in his career: as a three-time President’s Award winner at Select Sires; a two-time President’s Award winner at Accelerated Genetics, as the top overall national sales representative; and in 2021 he reached the coveted One Million Unit Sales for total semen sold, becoming the 60th person to reach that milestone.

Allan has been a steadfast supporter of 4-H, FFA, Oregon State University students, and youth events across the Pacific Northwest. He has judged countless state and county fairs, as well as judging in five foreign countries.

Allan is the current president of the Oregon Holstein Association, and, after serving more than 15 years, recently stepped down as a member of the ODFA board of directors. Allan lives in the Willamette Valley and continues to enjoy an active role in dairy communities around the state.