The majority of the company was purchased in 2010 by a private investment firm. Bloomberg Markets live from New York, focused on bringing you the most important global business and breaking markets news and information as it happens. Representing farmer-owned #dairy cooperatives on Capitol Hill since 1916, Imitation dairy products have gotten away with using dairys good name for their own benefit. Randy Mooney Chairman Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Simon Vander Woude First . Cooperatives give individual farmers better access to retail markets and more leverage within the food chain. Texas Tech University Select Milk Producers, Dallas, Texas . The translation may be imprecise, and can miss certain nuance and meaning in the site's original English text. endstream endobj 197 0 obj <> endobj 198 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 199 0 obj <>stream Select Milk Producers, Inc. was formed in 1994 by a group of large dairy producers with high-quality milk and efficient dairy farm operations. Robert H. (Holly) Holder, PE, is a principal with Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Inc. in Lubbock, Texas. Not Pictured: Dr. Mike Ballou. Amanda Biddle, a dairy producer from Williamsburg, Pa., was elected to the Center for Dairy Excellence Board during the December 2021 Board meeting. Board of Directors; News and Events. Another is Deans Meadow Brook plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. This situation did not happen overnight. KDDC executive director Maury Cox said in a phone interview that he did not want to be negative. Its members market more than two-thirds of the U.S. milk supply, making NMPF the principal voice on national issues for these cooperatives and their members. As producers struggle, cooperatives fumble: How is excess milk determined to be a problem in deficitareas? Select Milk Producers has 2 current employee profiles, including Co-Founder and CEO Mike McCloskey. 2023 National Milk Producers Federation. Phone calls and emails to the communications department for the Kroger Company have also not been returned as Kroger bottles 100% of its store-brand milk at its own plants, including the Kroger Winchester Farms Dairy plant in Winchester, Kentucky, which is supplied by Select Milk Producers, Inc. and Dairy Farmers of America (DFA). At one point Farmers Dairies served all public and private schools and military accounts within 100 miles of El Paso. Prairie Farms and DFA own or supply other milk processing assets in the state and region. 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As president of Select Milk Producers, he was a key driver in the development and construction of Continental Dairy Facilities Southwest, a state-of-the-art A special Class 2 item is sold to a large food service processor in Austin, Texas. While fairlife milk is still considered a fresh product with a 90-day shelf-life, some products in the lineup are shelf-stable and aseptically packaged. 209 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<8261BE8CF232F94CAA97BFD8167AFE36><85125E62690E004FA217E4DDB3841B1F>]/Index[196 20]/Info 195 0 R/Length 70/Prev 202030/Root 197 0 R/Size 216/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Breedlove offers translation of this site through Google Translate as a convenience to site visitors.Machine translation of this type is meant only to provide the basic "gist" and meaning of content. Cookies are always better with a glass of milk. Board of Directors - Chamber Staff - Visitors Center - Business Advocacy; . Dr. Ballou was named Associate Dean for Research in 2014 where he provides primary leadership for CASNR's graduate and research program development. (Incidentally, a billboard popped up recently on I-65 North outside of Louisville, Kentucky picturing Holstein dairy cows grazing and proclaiming Kroger as proud to support Kentucky farmers. He is also a licensed CertifiedPublic Accountant (CPA) by the Texas Board of PublicAccountancy. With Prairie Farms, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), and Select Milk Producers all supplying milk processing operations in Kentucky, not one has agreed to take on the Dean-dropped dairy producers as members. Mike McCloskey is Co-Founder and CEO of Select Milk Producers, the sixth largest milk cooperative in the country. DMI officials have indicated funding promotion and exhibits at Fair Oaks Farms visitor center an hour south of Chicago in Indiana. 0 An Excellent Rating was obtained on the last audit. The Select common goal is to provide the highest quality product in the market place and do so with the highest level of service. Sources indicate that Dean plans to close as many as seven plants by September but that no new producer-termination letters are expected in the near-term. The Innovation Center for U.S. Farmers Dairies was formed in 1915 by the Navar family and developed into a robust conventional dairy bottling operation that focused on independent markets, food service accounts, military troop issue/commissaries, and schools. Three plant closings later this year have been confirmed by town authorities quoted in press reports. As president of Select Milk Producers, he was a key driver in the development and construction of Continental Dairy Facilities Southwest, a state . %%EOF Numerous sources outside the directly affected region indicate that Prairie Farms is working with Walmart to source milk and bottling for Walmartwhile the Fort Wayne plant start up is delayed . Phone: 608-723-4712 Email: stonefront@tds.net Andy Buttles owns and manages Stone-Front Farm with his wife Lyn. All Farmers Select products are sold to our customers at the Farmers dock, there is no distribution by Farmers. Prairie Farms recently announced it is closing a plant in Fulton, Kentucky and will operate a distribution point there. Live from New York and London, analyzing the major market moving stories across the day in Europe, hear from the biggest newsmakers and showcase the unrivaled expertise of Bloomberg News. A new fairlife milk facility is under construction in Goodyear, Arizona to expand production beyond its current plants in Waco, Texas and Coopersville, Michigan. Dairy, and is the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award from the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine. Select launched a milk filtration system that led to the development of Core Power drinks and Fairlife Milk in partnership with Coca-Cola. In 2018, fairlife launched its products for sale in Canada and will begin local production and sourcing in Ontario this spring. The Innovation Center for U.S. (Since publication, DFAs John Wilson replied in an email that the excess milk situation is really the region, not specifically Kentucky. One can see why when comparing the DFA Area Council Map, above right,to the USDA Federal Order Area Map, above leftNote how in the above DFA Area Council Map,the lines are drawn with the navy blue of DFAs Mideast Area Council dipping straight into the maroon of the deficit Southeast Area Council right through central Kentucky, for example, and it becomes apparent that the decisions can be weighted toward surplus transport between Orders within Area Councils and between them.). A marketing cooperative is owned by farmers and helps them market their milk. KentuckyDairy Development Council (KDDC). Dairy is a leadership organization that works pre-competitively to ensure an economically viable and socially responsible U.S. dairy community from farm to table. Since then Mike has changed 2 companies and 2 roles. Yet, at the same time, Kentucky dairy farm families cant find a home for their milk, writes Sparrow. In any event, the meaning as represented by the site's original language of development - English - shall prevail regardless of text as rendered by the Google Translate engine. It doesnt make sense. The entire Farm membership votes on nominees from all districts. RFS Financial Services Convention News. As the new robot barn sits empty, and many contacts made with no takers, Kentucky dairy leaders scratch their heads at the gate-keeping that is going on wondering how is it possible that these things are happening? Robert H. (Holly) Holder All Rights Reserved. Dairy in 2014, when fairlife was officially launched. Retweeted by Currently, Fair Oaks Farms Brands is providing a low-sugar, flavored milk to the renowned Elsie Whitlow Stokes Charter School in Washington, D.C. ;C:9?,5ZdO^2 t@yA54.UZq.3{#`sx:a]'tgup"tb?_g^J7A0:lFK< 0 4u Founded on honesty, trust, and quality, Select Milk believes in providing their customers with the highest quality fresh milk and doesn't settle for anything less. McCloskey is a Board Member and Officer of the National Milk Producers Federation, Chairman of the Sustainability Initiative of the Innovation Center of U.S. It is a marketing problem.. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Guinea Brad continues to serve on the Fairlife board of directors. The Coca-Cola Company announced Friday (Jan. 3) that it has acquired the remaining stake in fairlife LLC from its joint venture partner Select Milk Producers, a 99-member cooperative run and founded by Dr. Mike and Sue McCloskey. 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Dr. Calle has 20 years of experience in food safety and implementing, assessing, and managing food safety systems. Vice Chairperson. \FPi'r\1Ucvn. Select has an interest in this hearing both as the marketing agent for its members and as the owner of manufacturing facilities producing dairy products across all four federal order classes and supports the adoption of the Cooperatives' Proposal. In addition, with the new Class I Walmart plant in Fort Wayne, and the destabilization of fluid milk sales as U.S. population growth is not making up for declining per-capita fluid milk consumption, Dean plant closings are on the horizon. Innovation Center for U.S. 215 0 obj <>stream pic.twitter.com/VH7T9H0kbB Select Milk Producers serves customers in the State of New Mexico. Northeast Mark Dotterer John Douglass Ken Janes Joe Miley Dianne Shoemaker Southwest Lou Brown Rob Bouic South Andy Miedema East Sign up to receive Connect Summit updates. We recognize the dairy farmers in Kentucky and southern Indiana who have been displaced face a tough situation. That in a milk-deficit region, this separate situation happens to a progressive dairy having to let their new completed barn sit empty and keep milking exclusively in the old facility, in order to keep their existing milk contract with another bottler? Tom Sell is the managing partner in Combest, Sell & Associates (CS&A), an agriculture-focused lobbying and consulting firm with offices in Lubbock, Texas and Washington, D.C. Texas Tech University - National Wind Institute al. Select Milk Producers, Inc. Former U.S. McCloskey was awarded his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1976 from the University of Mexico, after which he completed a two-year post-doctoral study in Dairy Production Medicine at the University of California, School of Veterinary Medicine, in Davis, California. The Professional Dairy Producers (PDPW) announce their 2019-20 PDPW Board of Directors and Executive Committee, re-electing incumbents Jay Heeg as President, Katy Schultz as Vice President and Dan Scheider as Secretary, and naming Janet Clark as new Treasurer of the Board. National Milk Producers Federation We are excited for the next chapter of fairlifes growth and innovation,said fairlife CEO Tim Doelman in a press release, emphasizing the strength and scale of the Coca-Cola Company. To receive DMI promotion funding, companies with approved innovations must spend a comparatively larger amount of their own funds. Work Experience Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Select Milk Producers 1993-2021 Vice Chairman The NMPF 2019-2021 Education DVM Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine University of Mexico B))Ao.\_QCikmE Dairy is a leadership organization that works pre-competitively to ensure an economically viable and socially responsible U.S. dairy community from farm to table. All Rights Reserved. Steve Moffett is the general manager and board member of Lubbock Electric Company, Inc. (LECO). As noted in this report, requests to Krogers communications department to understand what these billboards mean and what percentage of milk in Kentucky Kroger stores actually comes from Kentucky farms have gone unanswered.). incrementally downsizing their herds as the termination approaches. Dr. Anna Thomas is the director for Texas Tech University's National Wind Institute (NWI) where she is responsible for leadership, management, and stewardship of NWIs facilities, finance, personnel, and operation among many other duties. In southern Indiana where seven producers were unable to find a market, Doug Leman, executive director of Indiana Dairy Producers, indicates that some are drying off cows, others are selling, and one is getting into on-farm milk processing. While there is excess milk in the area and finding a home for this milk will be a challenge, we are working with others to determine if we can provide any assistance., Follow up questions about how excess milk is determined to be a problem in a milk-deficit area, have not been answered. Brad co-founded and serves as Chairman of the Board for Select Milk Producers, Inc., which launched a milk filtration system that led to the development of Core Power drinks and Fairlife Milk in partnership with Coca-Cola. In Tennessee, at least one farm exited, and all but one remaining were picked up by the new Appalachian Dairy Farmers Cooperativethat is marketing to a bottler featuring local milk. David Jones serves as Executive Vice President of City Bank. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1999-2002, and Ambassador to Guinea from 1996-99. Five of the original 19 affected producers in Kentucky have sold their cows and a few others, like Curtis and Carilynn Coombs,are in the process of incrementally downsizing their herds as the termination approaches. Farmers Select will process 100 trailer loads of gallon jugsandhalf-gallon jugs of fresh fluid milk each month for export to Mexico. That in a milk deficit region, just two loads of milk from 14 former Dean Dairy Direct farms that now have until July 1 cant find a home? [h~}2d6HU6|_OE2.4):7n&07{%E+a^lKfKh@kW.oMdba3_V)w&Dq iJ3G`fI.zen=8p>khU|+ LR3 ` 8} endstream endobj 201 0 obj <>stream Bouma, and his wife, Barbara, have three children Brandon, Breanne and Brent, and they are blessed with nine grandchildren. For more information, visit thier web site via the link below. Bloomberg Markets European Close. Dr. Edward H. (Bud) Johnston is a mixed animal practitioner at Central Plains Veterinary Clinic in Plainview, Texas. This documentary-style series follows investigative journalists as they uncover the truth. To give, donate online, call 1-888-999-0074, or contact a development professional. In Pennsylvania, it was localized (PA Preferred / Choose PA Dairy) bottlers like Schneiders Dairy and Harrisburg Dairies that picked up many of the eastern and western Pennsylvania farms, with much of the balance being picked up by New York-based ProgressiveDairymens Cooperative, marketing with United, a bargaining co-op covering both New York and Pennsylvania. Products such as Mootopia, a high protein, low sugar, lactose free milk that is sold by Texas-based HEB and Selects privately owned Core Power, a specially formulated athletic drink are among Fair Oaks Farms Brands notable achievements. Available tax forms for 2017 and 2018 list DMI grants to fairlife of $8 million for promotion in each of those years, and prior support was available from affiliated research and development resources in the Chicago suburbs of Rosemont where DMI and Fonterra are both located. This will continue to give Tim and his team the space and running room they need to innovate and build the fairlife brand in a unique and fast-changing category., The fairlife LLC launched in 2012 to make use of a patented cold-filtration process known as ultrafiltration, which removes some natural sugars (lactose) while concentrating milks protein and calcium. Combest, Sell & Associates Managing Partner Meanwhile, of the over 100 dairy farms in eight states affected by the Dean contract terminations, it has been the willingness of smaller regional bottlers and smaller regional cooperatives to mobilize compassion, leadership and local marketing efforts to pick up the slack. According to Cox, the KDDC and other state officials are still working, leaving no stone unturned, for these 14 producers, confirming on May 28 that Dean Foods did extend their contracts to July 1. After obtaining collegiate degrees from Tarleton State University and Texas A&M, Dr. Johnston graduated with his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from A&M in 1981. As noted in a May 15 Farmshine report, the KDDC,KentuckyDepartment of Agriculture and the Governors Office of Ag Policy have all been involved in helping these farms find a solution. This April meeting is usually . In 2004, Brad and Barb established Legacy Farms, an open, dry lot dairy farm in Texas. He currently serves on the board of the FiberMax Center for Discovery which addresses the heritage, education and innovation which is a part of agriculture today. 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