MMI General Manager Announces Staff Reorganization
STRONGSVILLE, OH - In
order to streamline operations and
better serve its members, Milk
Marketing Inc. has announced a
staff and department re
alignment. The announcement was
made by General Manager Gordon
Riehl and is effective immediately.
“The purpose of the
reorganization is to reduce our
costs, provide services that our
members request, and do a mdre
efficient job of communicating
with our members and em
ployees,” said Riehl.
No new senior staff level
positions were appointed. Two
senior positions have been vacated
since Jan. 1,1986. David Thomas,
former MMI director of member
services, is the new president of
the American Institute of
Cooperation, Washington, D.C.
Don Chew, former director of
customer relations, is retired.
Further reorganization is
pending in three areas quality
control, hauler relations and field
training.
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Most changes occurred in the
member services area. Rod
Carlson, previously responsible for
MMTs marketing operations only,
will now direct member services
and marketing. Reporting to
Carlson are the division managers
from MMTs six division offices;
the manager of support activities;
and the new position of quality
control manager.
Carlson has been involved in the
marketing of milk for 18 years.
Before coming to MMI in 1983,
Carlson was an agricultural
marketing analyst for the Land
O’Lakes Cooperative, Min
neapolis, and a milk marketing
specialist for the market ad
ministrators in Denver and St.
Louis.
Also included in the re-alignment
is MMTs farm supply department,
which will now come under the
supervision of Don Schriver, MMI
director of member relations and
public affairs. Schriver has had
previous experience with farm
supply management at the Ohio
Farmers Inc., Fostoria, OH and
Universal Cooperatives in Min
neapolis.
Other activities that will now
originate from member relations
are meeting planning and the
Young Cooperator program. Bill
Hardesty, named manager of
member relations, will oversee
these activities. Also Ann Emerich
Ag Research group funds
HARRISBURG - The Penn
sylvania Agriculture Research
Committee has recommended
renewed funding for 15 ongoing
projects totaling $297,223, ac
cording to state Agriculture
Secretary Richard E. Grubb.
Eight of the projects are being
conducted at The Pennsylvania
State University. They include:
• Management of Nitrogen and
Phosphorus, $5,703
• Increased Utilization of Leaker
Eggs, $5,436
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was named manager of com
munications.
Producer payroll and mem
bership records will switch from
member services to finance and
administration, according to Merle
Koppenhafer, director of that
department.
MMI is a 8,300 member daily
• Nematode Control, $5,312
• Mushroom Germplasm
Enhancement, $21,840
• Potato Storage Evaluation,
$25,092
• Peach Tree Hardiness, $25,000
• Layer House Cleaning, $25,120
• Phosphorus and Potassium
Soil Tests, $39,475
Six projects are being conducted
by research specialists at The
University of Pennsylvania. They
include:
• Swine Pseudorabies, $5,600
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marketed more than 4.3 billion
pounds or 500 million gallons of
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15 projects
• Protein Degradability, $lB,BOO
• Dairy Herd Analysis, $24,745
• Trichinosis Control, $17,000
• Shipping Fever In Feeder
Calves, $23,100
• Reproductive Failure in Pigs,
$19,600
Analysis of Agriculture
Resource Management practices
is being conducted at The
Delaware Valley College of
Science and Agriculture. Cost of
the project is $35,400.
Funding for the projects is
contingent upon passage of the
1986-87 state budget containing
agricultural research funding as
proposed by Governor Thorn
burgh, said Grubb.
Members of the Agricultural
Research Committee include
Secretary Grubb; Senator Edward
Helfrick, Chairman of the Senate
Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee; Senator Patrick J.
Stapleton, Minority Chairman of
the Senate Committee;
Representative Samuel Morris,
Chairman of the House Agriculture
and Rural Affairs Committee;
Representative Carmel Sirianni,
Minority Chairman of the House
Committee; Deputy Agriculture
Secretaries J. Luther Snyder and
Kirk Wilson; Fred Wertz, Acting
Director of the Department’s
Bureau of Agricultural
Development; Ben Mader,
Executive Director of the Penn
sylvania Harness Racing Com-,
mission; and Charles Trimmer,
Executive Director of the Penn
sylvania Horse Racing Com
mission.
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