Jersey Marketing Service has hired Jason Robinson and Erica Davis. Robinson has been named Manager of Jersey Marketing Service and Davis will assist with marketing and promotion for all JMS activities and provide on-site support for public auctions.
As manager, Robinson will be responsible for all day-to-day operations of Jersey Marketing Service. Robinson brings over 20 years experience in livestock marketing to this position. Orion Cattle Services was established as a professional service provider to purebred cattle marketers in 1998, and he has steadily grown the business to work from 30 to 35 tie-up and commercial sales annually. He has worked extensively with the Guernsey Breeders Association; Modern Associates, St. Paris, Ohio; Brown Swiss Sale Service LLC, Lake Mills, Wis.; and since 2005, Jersey Marketing Service.
Jason has served as a 4-H leader and as secretary-treasurer for the livestock and sale committees in Fayette County, Ohio, and is currently a director of the Ohio Milking Shorthorn Society. He bred and owned the unanimous 2010 All American Junior 3-Year-Old, Blue Spruce HTA Melody Mya. She was Reserve Intermediate Champion of the 2010 International Milking Shorthorn Show at World Dairy Expo.
A native of Kutztown, Pa., Erica Davis grew up on her family’s 120-head dairy operation, Daview Farm. She was selected a National Distinguished Junior Member by Holstein Association USA in 2000, and was twice a member of the champion team in the National Junior Holstein Quiz Bowl.
Davis earned a B.S. degree in agricultural science with a minor in agricultural communications from The Pennsylvania State University in 2004. She completed internships as World Wide Sires Ltd. and Accelerated Genetics, then joined the staff of Purebred Publishing Inc. as editor of Ayrshire Digest for two years. Erica also served one year as editor of the Ohio Jersey News. For the past eight years, she has also worked preparing cattle of all breeds for shows and sales.
Source: US Jersey