New
York State Acting Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball said nominations for the New York Dairy Promotion Advisory Board, which
administers the State’s Dairy Promotion Order and evaluates dairy
marketing and promotion programs.
Nominations must be received no later
than April 1.
The
Advisory Board consists of ten New York milk producers appointed by the
Commissioner to oversee and make recommendations on the appropriate
expenditure of assessments collected from New York dairy farmers that
make up the State’s Dairy Promotion Order.
Members serve a three-year
term, beginning May 1. They do not receive a salary, but are entitled to reimbursement of actual expenses.
Any
individual producer marketing milk in New York may be nominated to
serve on the Dairy Promotion Advisory Board. Nominations can only be
made
by individual New York milk producers and must be submitted in writing
and signed by the individual producer making the nomination.
Cooperatives and other farm organizations are not authorized to nominate
individual producers to the Advisory Board, but may
endorse producers who are nominated.
Each
nomination should provide the name and address of the producer being
nominated and his or her cooperative or other organizational
affiliation.
Other information that is helpful in evaluating a nominee’s
qualifications to serve on the Advisory Board include the producer’s
herd size, milk market, participation in farm organizations or programs,
and experience or interest in dairy marketing activities.
Authorized organizations can endorse nominees by submitting to the Commissioner, no later than April 8, a resolution of the board of directors
or other governing body endorsing the nominations of at least two of
its members whose nominations have been received.
Authorized
organizations are: Agri-Mark, Inc., Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.;
Niagara Frontier Cooperative Milk Producers Bargaining Agency,
Inc.; New York Farm Bureau, Inc.; New York State Grange, Inc.; and
Rochester Cooperative Milk Producers Bargaining Agency, Inc.
Nominations
by individual producers and endorsements by the designated cooperative
and other farm organizations should be sent no later than April
1, 2014 for nominations and April 8, 2014 for endorsements to:
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services
Attn: Bert Lue
10B Airline Drive
Albany, NY 12235
Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services
Attn: Bert Lue
10B Airline Drive
Albany, NY 12235
For
further information on the New York State Dairy Promotion Advisory
Board nomination process, please contact the New York State Department
of Agriculture and Markets’ Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services
at 518-457-5731.
Milk
producers pay 15 cents per hundredweight of milk produced for dairy
promotion. The New York State Dairy Promotion Order, established to
promote
the consumption of New York milk and dairy products, retains 10 of the
15 cents paid by producers for contractual milk promotion activities and
dairy research in the State. The remaining 5 cents is used for
national program activities. Last year, $13.4 million
was collected through the State Dairy Promotion Order.
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