A2O-L>ncaster Farming, Saturday, January 29, 1994
Holstein Breeders Meet
BRATTLEBORO, winter forum meetings sponsored
Vt. Pennsylvania Holstein by the national Holstein Associa
breeders may attend either of two bon of America on Feb. 9 and 10.
MMI Appoints Stiefer
Director Business Development
STRONGSVILLE,
Ohio David L. Stief
er has been named to the
newly created position
of Director of Business
Development for Milk
Marketing Inc., the
Strongsville, Ohio dairy
farmer cooperative,
Don Schriver, MMl’s
executive vice president
and chief executive
officer, made the
announcement Jan. 4,
1994.
Stiefer’s new respon
sibilities will include
working to develop
marketing and saies
programs for both MMI
in fluid milk and its
wholly owned subsidi
ary Farmers Dairy
Foods, Inc. in value
added products.
“We’ve looked for
quite awhile to find
someone of Dave’s
caliber for this job,’’said
Schriver. “His back
ground will also be
helpful in further deve
loping the alliance
MMI/FDF has with
DMV USA and the
Dutch cooperative
Campina MeUcunie.”
In December, 1992,
MMI and DMV USA
formed an international
alliance to enable MMI
to enter the global
market.
Before joining MMI,
Stiefer was vice presi
dent, sales and market
ing, for DMV USA. Pre
viously he was president
and chief operating
officer for Western
Dairy Products, a U.S.
company which imports
and export dairy pro
ducts for the New Zea
land Dairy Board.
Stiefer will be part of
MMl’s senior staff and
report directly to
Schriver.
"Obviously we’re
very pleased that Dave’s
background is steeped
with more than IS years
of dairy rflarketing
experiences including
sales in both national
and international mark
ets,” said Schriver.
Stiefer received his
bachelor of science
degree in business
administration from
Pacific Western Univer
sity and also studied
food science and dairy
science at the University
of Wisconsin. He also
served six years in the
U.S. Marine Corps.
MMI is a 5,900 mem
ber dairy farmer owned
cooperative encompass
ing an eight state Mid
western area including
Ohio, Indiana, Pennsyl
vania, Michigan, New
York, Kentucky, Mary
land and West Virginia.
Last year MMI mark
eted more than 3.8 bil
lion pounds or 442 mil
lion gallons of milk.
MMI marketed S6PB
1993 which includes Foods, Inc. and farm
$307 million in net sales supply, plus dues and
from Farmers Dairy service fees.
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Direct Herd Rep. Western PA Direct Herd Rep.
Earl Kepner Russ Jacques Nelson James
Phone:7l7-935-2485 Phone:Bl4-425-2562 Phone:2ls-562-7117
Direct Herd Reps:
Peter Bohacek
Northeastern PA Southcentral PA WEST VIRGINIA Phone: 301-371-6834
Don Hibbard Ed Gulnac Steve Cronin Dave Elston
Phone; 717-836-3168 Phone: 814-847-2520 Phone: 304-884-8172 Phone; 301-898-9125
February
The sites of the two meetings are
planned so that breeders from all
over the state have an opportunity
to attend.
Every year, the national Hols
tein Association holds winter for
um meetings in order to hear about
herd .owner concerns. The meet
ings are held across the nation.
For Pennsylvanians in the west
ern part of the commonwealth, a
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forum is scheduled for Wednes
day, Feb. 9, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
at the Days Inn Butler Conference
Center, 139 Pittsburgh Rd., Butler.
Call the center at (412) 287-6761.
For those breeders in the eastern
and central portions of the state, a
conference is set to be held Thurs
day, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
at the Sheraton Inn-East, at 800
East Park Drive, in Harrisburg.
Call (717) 561-2800.
Scheduled to speak at the two
Pennsylvania forums are national
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directors Tom Kelly, of Tyrone,
John Howard, of Willow Street,
and national vice president John
Cope, of Grantham.
Holstein field representatives
Clarence Stauffer and Tom Dum,
and classifier Dan Cnossen, are
also to be present to review new
classification options, progress
with the Qualified Herdbook, and
some new methods for animals
identification.