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Perdue makes National Dairy Promotion and Research Board appointments

 

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has selected 12 dairy producers and one importer to serve on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board.  The appointees will serve three-year terms.

Perdue issued a statement saying, “These appointees will be valuable assets for the National Dairy Board as it carries out its coordinated program of promotion designed to strengthen the dairy industry’s position in the marketplace and to maintain and expand domestic and international markets for dairy products.  They represent a cross-section of the dairy industry and I know that it will be well served by them.”

Newly appointed producers include:

Region 1 (Alaska, Oregon, and Washington)

Dolores J. Werkhoven, Monroe, Wash.

Region 4 (Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas)

Orville D. Miller, Hutchinson, Kan.

Region 6 (Wisconsin)

Stacy Eberle, Monroe, Wis.

Becky L. Levzow, Rio, Wis.

Region 7 (Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska)

Alex D. Peterson, Trenton, Mo.

Region 9 (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia)

Gregory A. Gibson, Bruceton Mills, W.Va.

Region 10 (Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia)

John M. Larson, Okeechobee, Fla.

Region 12 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont)

Melissa C. Dziurgot, Durham, Conn.

Reappointed Producers are:

Region 3 (Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming)

James E. Webb, Delta, Colo.

Region 4 (Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas)

William R. Anglin, Bentonville, Ark.

Region 5 (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota)

Kathleen A. Skiba, North Branch, Minn.

Region 8 (Idaho)

John S. Ballard, Gooding, Idaho

Newly appointed Dairy Importer:

Ralph B. Hofman, Basking Ridge, N.J.