The North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) board of directors has elected four new board members and re-elected one incumbent board member.
NAIDC manages and operates one national and four regional contests. The 2008 national contest will be held April 4-5, in Madison, Wis. Regional contest dates and locations include: Northeast, Nov. 8-10, 2007, Concord, N.H.; South, Nov. 15-17, 2007, Baton Rouge, La.; Midwest, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008, Merrillville, Ind.; and West, Feb. 28-March 1, 2008, Visalia, Calif.
New board members include:
Cherie Bayer, American Jersey Cattle Association, Columbus, Ohio;
Luciene Ribeiro, Diamond V Mills, Visalia, Calif.;
Jean Conklin, Yankee Farm Credit and dairy producer, Haverhill, N.H.;
Bruce Clark, Monsanto Dairy Business Lansing, Mich.
Kas Ingawa, North Carolina State University and Dairy Records Management Systems, Raleigh, N.C., was re-elected to his second term.
Larry Muller, Penn State University professor emeritus, University Park, Pa., was elected chair;
Barry Putnam, Genex, Ithaca, N.Y., was elected vice chair.
Other executive committee elections included: Ingawa as program chair, C. Hap Allen, Genex, Shawano, Wis., as publicity chair, and Clark as finance chair.
The remaining NAIDC board members include Miriam Weber-Nielsen, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.; Matt Budine, Progressive Dairy Solutions Inc., Oakdale, Calif.; Linda Hodorff, Second-Look Holsteins, Eden, Wis.; Dave Thorbahn, Select Sires, Plain City, Ohio; Todd Kranz, ABS Global, Dublin, Ohio; JoDee Sattler, DairyBusiness Communications, Hartland, Wis.; and Rob Sheffer, Cargill Animal Nutrition, Albany, N.Y.