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Congratulations to Deb Barlament, the new Development Director at the Dairy Business Association (DBA) “Deb’s business background and past involvement in the agriculture industry will be a great asset to DBA. She has served on the Executive Board for Wisconsin Farm Technology Days/Brown County, as well as volunteering for Breakfast on The Farm/Brown County, and WFTD in Outagamie County,” commented … Read More

SCR Dairy announced today the addition of Shane St. Cyr as Training and Customer Support Manager for its expanding U.S. team. St. Cyr will be working directly with SCR’s U.S. dairy customers to maximize the benefits of SCR’s breakthrough technology in rumination and activity monitoring. He will also provide software training to all users, support staff and SCR distributors. St. … Read More

The National Mastitis Council announces the release of its commemorative book. The commemorative book is a collection of the past 50 years of mastitis control, milk quality, the history of the National Mastitis Council, personal recollections from current and past members as well as a look at what the future of milk quality holds. “Through the years NMC has grown … Read More

Advanced Animal Diagnostics (AAD), a developer of technologies for the rapid diagnosis of farm animal diseases, has added two new employees to lead the company’s sales and marketing efforts. Dr. Francis Adriaens is named Vice President of Marketing and International Sales, and Gary Winter is named Vice President of North America Sales. AAD is an innovative R&D company dedicated to … Read More

Shamrock Farms has donated 5,000 servings of milk to a pair of local food banks. The company ran a Facebook campaign this spring that promised a milk donation for each new “like” on the company’s page. United Food Bank and Yuma Community Food Bank will use the 8-ounce milk servings to feed kids in need. During the summer, children who … Read More

Dairy Farmers of America’s (DFA) Springfield, Mo., facility has been awarded the Ozarks GreenScore Gold Level award. Ozarks GreenScore is a voluntary, non-regulatory program designed to educate, assist and recognize area businesses and organizations as they adopt environmentally sustainable practices. To be considered environmentally sustainable, organizations must score highly on evaluated criteria such as waste management, energy management, policy management, … Read More

Congratulations to Christine McFarland and Ryan O’Leary on their summer internships with East Central/Select Sires. McFarland will serve as the communications intern, while O’ Leary will be the member service intern. As the communications intern, McFarland will assist in a variety of projects involving writing, editing and graphic design, and will represent East Central/Select Sires at various events throughout the … Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Julia Hamann, who has joined Diamond V as dairy marketing manager. Dr. Hamann will be responsible for executing dairy program marketing strategies to support Diamond V’s global dairy business. She will also be responsible for the development and execution of launch strategy to prepare the market and Diamond V distributors for the introduction of new dairy products. … Read More

Under a new joint marketing agreement, Genex Cooperative Inc. representatives will assist in marketing DeLaval Inc. Activity Systems, which monitor cows’ activity helping dairy producers know when cows are ready to be inseminated. “This is a logical agreement for Genex as our Farm Systems division has marketed DeLaval products throughout South Dakota and central and southwest Minnesota for more than … Read More