Northeast Dairy Challenge Draws 77 Students
COBLESKILL, N.Y. Seven
ty-seven students from 10 col
leges and universities gathered in
Cobleskill, N.Y., for the first
Northeast Intercollegiate Dairy
Challenge, Oct. 23-25, hosted by
The State University of New
York (SUNY) at Cobleskill.
Students from New York, Ver
mont, Connecticut, Massachu
setts, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and New Hampshire participated
in this innovative three-day
event, known as the Dairy Chal
lenge. Working in five-person
teams, students assessed all as
pects of farm management and
presented their recommendations
to a panel of judges.
One of the Dairy Challenge’s
goals was to introduce students
from the participating universi
ties to one another and encourage
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“Putting students with differ
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Farmer: Get Off Defense,
MADISON, Wis. Sixth
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encouraging producers to stop
defending agriculture against ac
tivist groups and anti-ag organi
zations.
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waiting for these domestic terror-
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goals. In the short run, the group
hopes to provide community sup
port for local farms, resolve im
mediate individual farm con
cerns, and increase the public’s
understanding of agriculture's
role in the county.
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run to go out of business. Maryland Department of Agri-
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Dairy Challenge (NAIDC),
which was established in April
2002 as a management contest to
incorporate evaluation of all as
pects of a specific dairy business.
NAIDC is fully funded through
contributions from the dairy in-
ists to destroy our farms and
ranches, we need to take action,”
said Loos. “We need to let con
sumers know that what we do is
vital to our national security. We
are not going to let these well
funded radicals run us out of
business through frivolous law
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Get On Offense
sages to the consumers. It is time
we give them the wake-up call
they have been waiting for.”
Loos was slated to address
dairy leaders from across Wis
consin Dec. 4 at the fourth annu
al Dairy Business Association
Business Conference in Madison.
“Building the Power to Change”
was the theme of the two-day
event Dec. 3-4.
The conference agenda fea
tured panels and speakers ad
dressing agricultural moderniza
tion protection in the state of
Wisconsin.
The conference was organized
to help industry leaders and pro
ducers learn media communica
tion skills, discuss environmental
and legal issues, and network
with fellow dairy producers from
across the state.
protecting the environ-
ment, is the next step in
process begun earlier
this year with a “state
of-the-science” briefing
in July and a summit
hosted in August by
uz Governor Robert L. Ehr-
T lich, Jr.
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