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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Gregg Doud has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation and Steve Mangapit has been selected as the new president of Pinnacle Claims Management, succeeding David Zanze, who retired after 38 years of service.
Gregg Doud has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation and Roberta Wagner has been named senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the International Dairy Foods Association.
There’s one week left to submit comments to the House Agriculture Committee on what should – or shouldn’t – be in the next farm bill. So far, the committee has received nearly 1,400 submissions, according to staff.
The National Milk Producers Federation made quick work of its search for a new top executive, announcing Wednesday the selection of Gregg Doud to be the next president and CEO.
USDA is bringing on six individuals who will hold senior staff positions and promoting two at the department and President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jeffrey Prescott as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and Summer Mersinger as commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern will retire at the end of the year after a decade at the helm of NMPF and a total of 45 years in the ag industry.
USDA has scheduled a pre-hearing information session for Friday, June 16, to get more input from the dairy industry on a National Milk Producers Federation petition to amend five provisions of the federal milk marketing order, as well as on a narrower request from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA).
The nation’s largest farm group is throwing its weight behind a petition the National Milk Producers filed with USDA to reform federal milk marketing orders.
Environmental claims, including those related to carbon reductions, need to be better defined and policed, commenters told the Federal Trade Commission as it considers revisions to guidance long used by industry.