Paul Broering, an Ohio dairy farmer, was appointed by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns to the National Dairy Research and Promotion Board. Broering will fill the Region 9 board position that became vacant in 2006. His term will end Oct. 31, 2007.

The National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, composed of 36 dairy farmers representing 13 regions of the contiguous United States, administers a coordinated program of promotion, research and nutrition education.

The board was established by the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983. It is authorized to design programs to strengthen the dairy industry’s position in domestic and foreign markets. The national program is financed
by a mandatory 15-cent per hundredweight assessment on milk produced in the contiguous 48 states and marketed commercially by dairy farmers. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service monitors the operation of the board.