The 50th annual meeting of National All-Jersey Inc. will feature Sonia Fabian, chief operating officer of the Southeast Area Council of Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. as featured speaker. The meeting takes place on Friday, June 27, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Asheville, N.C. Complete information on the convention program and registration forms are available on online.
Fabian’s presentation will focus on the dairy situation in the southeast U.S. and the reasons component pricing may help attract milk to a fluid-deficient marketing area.
Fabian began her career in the dairy industry with Southern Milk Sales in 1979, and has been with DFA, the nation’s largest producer-owned dairy marketing cooperative and food company, and its predecessor cooperatives for 27 years. Prior to being named to her current position in the spring of 2007, she served as Vice President of Marketing and Accounting for the southeast council located in Knoxville, Tenn.
DFA’s southeast area serves a milkshed extending into 16 states, representing approximately 3,000 member farms that market 5.4 billion pounds of milk annually. It has five manufacturing facilities located in Louisiana, Missouri and Texas.