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National Dairy Quality Award (NDQA) winners were announced during the awards luncheon at the NMC 47th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Top honors went to Platinum recipients Emily, Glenn and Jon Beller, Carthage, New York; Dick Brokish, Hollandale, Wisconsin; Lowell and Karen Davenport, Ancramdale, New York; Randy and Cindy Dragt, Howard City, Michigan; Pete and John Kappelman, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; and Dean and Patti Tohl, Tillamook, Oregon.

You can read about the Platinum winners, along with the Gold and Silver winners (and their nominators) here. Results of the awards program were also published in the January 10, 2008 issue of Hoard’s Dairyman magazine.

Herman Barkema, University of Calgary, and Liliana Sotomayor, a dairy consultant from Ecuador, joined the NMC board of directors following the 47th NMC Annual Meeting, held January 20-23, in New Orleans, Louisiana. They replace retiring board members Joe Hogan, The Ohio State University, and Ken Leslie, University of Guelph.

NMC board members elected Larry Fox, Washington State University, to serve as president; Norm Schuring, WestfaliaSurge Inc., as first vice president; Pamela Ruegg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as second vice president; Eric Hillerton, DairyNZ, as secretary; and David Reid, BouMatic, as treasurer. [Read more here.]

List of Board Members

The National Mastitis Research Foundation (NMRF) recognized four graduate students as NMC Scholars during the NMC 47th Annual Meeting, January 20-23, 2008, in New Orleans.

This year’s NMC Scholars included Kasey Moyes, University of Illinois, USA; Jolanda Jansen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Laura Solano, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; and Jose Pantoja, University of Wisconsin, USA. NMRF board members selected scholars based on academic performance, research project and an essay describing their career goals. Each recipient received a travel scholarship to attend the NMC Annual Meeting and enrich their graduate education.

“The 2008 NMC Scholars are excellent representatives of the many quality graduate and veterinary students around the world focusing their studies on mastitis and milk quality. Jolanda, Kasey, Laura and Jose each brought a fresh view and energy to the annual meeting, which reassures the future of mastitis research and continued success of the NMC,” said former NMC President Joe Hogan, The Ohio State University. Hogan currently serves as the NMRF president.

Information about the 2009 NMC Scholars Program, which will include a travel scholarship to attend next year’s NMC 48th Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, will be posted on the NMC website by June 1. Applications will be due July 31.

Papers and posters presented at the NMC 47th Annual Meeting, held January 20-23 in New Orleans, are now available in the NMC Online Proceedings Library, which is accessible to NMC members in the “members only” section of the website. The proceedings library includes all the papers from the annual and regional NMC meetings back thru 2001. Click here for the members-only page.

Printed copies of the proceedings will also be mailed to all NMC members who did not attend the meeting.

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