“We are pleased to have Carolina as part of our Western editorial team,” said Hastings. “The addition of the managing editor position will allow the company to continue expanding our coverage and services to dairy producers and the industry at large in the 14 Western states.”

Machado, a 2005 graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, was the outstanding dairy science senior. She comes to the magazine from Agritech Analytics in Visalia, Calif., where she was responsible for all communications, marketing and advertising. At Western DairyBusiness, Machado will write and edit western stories. She will also coordinate editorial layouts working with the graphics production staff for the dairy magazine, as well as for the three World Ag Expo publications that DairyBusiness Communications produces.

Machado has a rich dairy heritage. She is a daughter of Tony and Lorraine Machado, who operate the Tony J. Machado Dairy in Merced, Calif. She grew up on the dairy with a first-hand look at the business. She showed dairy cattle in 4-H and FFA and was a member of the National Champion Dairy Products judging team while at Cal Poly.

Some of her dairy industry internship experience included working with: California Milk Advisory Board; California Department of Food and Agriculture; Haagen Daz Ice Cream; Three Sisters Farmstead Cheese; California Farm Bureau Federation; Western United Dairymen; Fleishman Hillard (Public Relations); Foster Farms Dairy; Dairy Council of California; and University of California, Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center. She is a member of California Women for Agriculture and California Holstein Association.