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THE DAIRY PRACTICES COUNCIL®
45th Annual Conference
November 4 – 7, 2014
Tuesday, November 4
8:00-6:00 PM -Cheesemakers Food Safety
Workshop- Dr. Dennis D'Amico, Instructor.
(See inside for additional information)
Wednesday, November 5
7:00 – 8:30 DPC Executive Board Mtg.
8:00 – 5:00 Conference Registration
9:00 - 11:30 DeLaval Tour
1:00 – 1:15 Welcome, Jay Waldvogel, VP, DFA
1:15 - 1:45 DPC Orientation & TF Intro.
2:00 – 5:00 TASK FORCE SESSIONS
5:30 – 7:30 CASH BAR RECEPTION
Full Sponsorship:
Capitol Plastic Products
Partial Sponsorships:
AFCO, Inc.
IBA, Inc.
IDEXX Laboratories
InstantLabs
Kentuckiana Tank Wash
Midland Scientific, Inc.
Nelson-Jameson, Inc.
Page & Pedersen Int., LTD
Weber Scientific
Visit our Sponsor’s Displays
Thursday, November 6
General Session:
Pres. Rebecca Piston, Presiding
8:15 Welcome & Announcements
8:30 Smart Cow: Precision Ag, Jeffrey Bewley
9:15 Smart Plant: Electronic Monitoring/Data
Management, Craig Nelson
10:00 The Story of Shatto Dairy, Leroy Shatto
10:30 Break
10:45 3-A SSI Third Party Verification
Inspection, Eric Schweitzer & Lyle Clem
11:15 Dairy Marketing & Advertizing
Campaigns, Melissa Malcolm & Mary Wilcox
12:00 AWARDS LUNCHEON & BUSINESS
MEETNG
A Missouri Dairy Welcome, Gene Wiseman
Awards Luncheon Sponsored By:
AFCO, Inc.
ThermoFisher Scientific/Capital Vial
2:00 – 5:00 TASK FORCE SESSIONS
Friday , November 7
General Session:
VP Bebe Zabilansky, Presiding
8:00 Welcome and Announcements
8:15 Anyone Can Do It- 100,000 SCC, Tom
Herremans
9:00 Sampling Milk on the Farm, Neil Bendixen
9:30 Federal Milk Marketing Orders: Margin
Protection Change, Todd Wilson
10:00 Break
10:15 Teaching Dairy Processing at KSU, Karen
Schmidt
10:45 McCarty Family Farms and the Dannon
Company: From Cow to Cup, Joe Gillespie
11:15 NCIMS & FDA Update, Dennis Gaalswyk
12:00 Adjourn
TASK FORCE WORK SESSIONS
Task Forces will meet on Wednesday &
Thursday starting at 2:00 PM
See the Task Force agendas for more details.
Speakers and Instructors
Dr. Dennis D'Amico, Assistant Professor,
University of Connecticut Food Science and
Cheesemaking Institute, 3636 Horsebarn Hill
Road Ext., Storrs, CT. 06269. Tel 860-486-2413.
email: [email protected]
Neil Bendixen, Manager, Contract Hauling,
Dairy Marketing Services, 5001 Brittonfield
Parkway, PO Box 4844, Syracuse, NY 13221.
email: [email protected]
Dr. Jeffrey Bewley, Assistant Professor and
Extension Dairy Specialist, University of
Kentucky, Room 407 W.P. Garrigus Building
Lexington, KY 40546-0215.
email: [email protected]
Lyle Clem, Director of Engineering and
Consultant, Electrol Specialties Co., 441 Clark
St., South Beloit, IL 61080. Ph 815-389-2291
Dennis Gaalswyk, Senior Milk Sanitation
Officer, US FDA, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway,
College Park, MD 20740. Tel 301-436-2006.
email: [email protected]
Joe Gillespie, DVM, Operations Mgr.,
McCarty Family Farms, 2231 County Road 31
Rexford, KS 67753.
email: [email protected]
Tom Herremans, Udder Health Management
Consultant, IBA, Inc., Box 31, 27 Providence
Rd., Millbury, MA 01527.
email: [email protected]
Melissa S. Malcolm, MilkPEP, Field
Marketing Manager, 1250 H Street NW, Suite
950, Washington, DC 20005.
email: [email protected]
Craig Nelson, Food Automation, LLC, PO Box
48003, Los Angeles, CA 90048.
email: [email protected]
Dr. Karen Schmidt, Professor, Kansas State
University, 224 Call Hall, Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS 66506-1600
email: [email protected]
Eric Schweitzer, Director, Standards &
Certification, 3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc.
6888 Elm Street, Suite 2D, McLean, VA 221013829. email: [email protected]
FOOD SAFETY WORKSHOP
for
CHEESEMAKERS & SMALL-SCALE
PROCESSORS
The DPC, along with the Innovation Center for
US Dairy and the Midwest Dairy Association, will
host a Cheesemakers Food Safety Workshop on
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
The workshop is intended for:

Artisan and Farmstead cheese &
dairy product manufacturers
looking to gain information and
maximize food safety processes on
farm

State and federal regulators who
must gain knowledge on farm
cheese making in this unique dairy
manufacturing segment

Extension individuals who wish to
further on farm food safety
knowledge in order to provide better
producer support

University or other training
institutes with dairy food safety
programs
Leroy Shatto, Owner, Shatto Milk Company,
9406 N. HWY. 33, Osborn, MO 64474.
Ph. 816-930-3862
Jay Waldvogel, Senior Vice President,
Strategy and International Development,
Dairy Farmers of America, 10220 N.
Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, Missouri 64153
email: [email protected]
Instructor: Dr. Dennis D'Amico, UCONN
Food Science & Cheesemaking Institute.
Mary Wilcox, Vice President for Dairy
Ingredient Marketing, Midwest Dairy
Association, 2015 Rice Street, St. Paul, MN
55113. email: [email protected]
Additional Information and a link to register for
th
this workshop, along with the 45 Annual
Conference registration, is available on the DPC
website: http://www.dairypc.org/dpcconferences/2014-conference-registration
Todd Wilson, Market Administrator for the
Central Milk Market Order, 10801 Renner
Boulevard, Lenexa, KS 66219.
email: [email protected]
Gene Wiseman, Executive Secretary, Missouri
State Milk Board, P.O. Box 630 Jefferson City,
MO 65102. email: [email protected]
Note: Registration is limited to 70 people.
Please Register Early
DeLaval EquipmentTour
This tour is scheduled for Wednesday
morning, Nov 5th, and will depart from the
hotel at 9AM and return by 11:30 AM.
More details available on the DPC website:
http://www.dairypc.org/dpcconferences/2014-conference-registration
EXECUTIVE BOARD
PLATINUM SUSTAINING
MEMBERS:
AFCO, Inc.
Dairy Farmers of America
Dairymaster, USA
HP Hood LLC
GOLD SUSTAINING
MEMBERS:
Advanced Instruments Inc.
Agri-Mark, Inc.
Dairy Farmers of America
Davisco Foods International,
Inc.
Diversey, Inc
Foremost Farms, USA
GEA Farm Technologies
IBA Inc.
Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Lely USA, Inc.
Paul Mueller Company
Walker Transport
SILVER SUSTAINING
MEMBERS:
Dairy Marketing Services LLC
Eastern Crown, Inc.
Guida-Seibert Dairy Company
Kemps, LLC
MD & VA Milk Producers
Michigan Milk Producers Assn.
Safeway, Inc.
Sunrise Family Farms, Inc.
Surpass Chemical Co., Inc
Thermo Fisher
Scientific/Capitol Vial
Upstate Niagara Farms
Cooperative, Inc.
BRONZE SUSTAINING
MEMBERS:
Agricultural Engineering
Services, PLCC
American Cheese Society
American Dairy Goat Assoc.
Bob White Systems, Inc.
Bruns Bros. Process Equipment
Byrne Dairy Inc.
Capitol Plastic Products
Charm Sciences Inc.
CheezSorce, LLC
BRONZE SUSTAINING (cont.)
Clover Stornetta Farms
Cornell Milk Quality
Improvement Program
Country Dairy, Inc.
Dairy Cheq.
Dairymen Specialty Company
Empire Cheese, Inc
Empire State Milk Quality
Council
Friends Of Hildene
Friendship Dairies, Inc.
Galliker Dairy Company
Gallagher/Grace/Mayer Insurance
Harold Wainess & Associates
Honeywell Farms/Elmhurst
IDEXX Laboratories
InstantLabs
International Dairy Foods Assn.
International Milk Haulers Assn.
Jackson-Mitchell
Kentuckiana Tank Wash
Kentucky Dairy Development
Kreider Farms
Lancaster DHIA
Lanco-Pennland
Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms
Losurdo Foods
McCarty Family Farms, LLC
Nelson –Jameson, Inc.
Neogen Corporation
National Mastitis Council
Northeast Dairy Foods Assoc.
Orin Thomas & Sons
Packaging Consultants Intern. Inc
Page & Pedersen International
QC Laboratories, Inc.
Quality Management, Inc. (QMI)
Quality Milk Production Services
Randolph Associates, Inc
Readington Farms, Inc.
Rutters Dairy Inc.
Sanitary Design Industries
St. Albans Coop. Creamery, Inc..
Swiss Premium Dairy
The Schlueter Company
Titusville Dairy
Turkey Hill Dairy, Inc.
Vermont Butter & Cheese Co.
Vermont Technical College
Weber Scientific
Worcester Creamery Corp.
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Sponsor or Donor
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Mr. Fred E. Uetz
Mr. Merrill S. Timmins, Jr.
Mr. Milford R. Juckett
Mr. Richard M. Parry, DVM
Dr. Charles W. Livak
Prof. A. Roger Grout
Prof. Richard P. March
Dr. Henry V. Atherton
Mr. Albert F. Zimmermann
Mr. Rodney O. Martin
Mr. Robert G. Light
Mr. Eugene T. Wolff
Mr. Wilmot W. Irish
Mr. Charles W. Johnson
Dr. Joseph F. Mattick
Mr. Anthony B. Bizzarro
Mr. Robert L. Sanders
Dr. Francis E. Gilman
Dr. Gilbert H. Porter
Mr. Robert J. Gales
Mr. Sidney Barnard
Mr. Stephen Spencer
Mr. Donald George
Ms. Charlotte Hinz
Mr. David L. Sheldon
Mr. Gaylord Smith
Mr. John Greene
Mr. Albert Lahr
Mr. Joseph Moreau
Mr. Alfred Place
Mr. Chris Newcomer
Mr. Stanley Weeks
Mr. John Burke
Mr. John Porter
Mr. George Wilcox
Mr. Terry Musson
Mr. Byron Moyer
Mr. Tom MacNish
Mr. Don Breiner
Mr. Thomas Angstadt
Mr. Patrick Cleary
Mrs. Lynn Hinckley
Mr. Armand Dragon
Dr. Robert Graves
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OFFICERS:
Rebecca Piston, President, HP Hood LLC, Monroe, ME
[email protected]
Bebe Zabilansky, Vice President, Bruns Bros Process
Equipment, Gray, ME. [email protected]
Jeff Bloom, Executive Vice President, Dairy Practices
Council, Richboro, PA [email protected]
MEMBERS REPRESENTING REGULATORY:
Steve DiVincenzo, Illinois Dept. of Public Health, Division of
Food, Drug & Dairies, Springfield IL,
[email protected]
Dennis Gaalswyk,, US FDA, College Park, MD.
[email protected]
Patrick Healy, USDA Milk Market Administrator, Lenexa,
KS [email protected]
Keith Hay, Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board, Harrisburg,
PA. [email protected]
Joseph MacPhee, Michigan Dept. of Agriculture, Marquette,
MI. [email protected]
MEMBERS REPRESENTING INDUSTRY:
John Forsee, Idexx Laboratories, Westbrook, ME
[email protected]
Ron Geiser, Dairy Marketing Services, LLC, Orrville, OH
[email protected]
Greg Leach, Losurdo Foods, Heuvelton, NY
[email protected]
MEMBERS REPRESENTING EDUCATION:
John Partridge, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
[email protected]
Julie Smith, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
[email protected]
TASK FORCE DIRECTORS
TASK FORCE I FARM BUILDINGS & EQUIPMENT
John T. Tyson, Penn State University, Mifflin County
Cooperative Extension, Lewistown, PA.
[email protected]
TASK FORCE II PLANT EQUIPMENT &
PROCEDURES
Allen Sayler, Center for Food Safety & Regulatory
Solutions, Woodbridge, VA
[email protected]
TASK FORCE III LABORATORY & Q. C.
PROCEDURES Pat Healy, USDA Milk Market
Administrator, Lenexa, KS. [email protected]
TASK FORCE IV REGULATORY ISSUES & HACCP
Vacant
TASK FORCE V MILKING SYSTEMS &
PROCEDURES
Steve Lehman, Michigan Milk Producers, Novi, MI
[email protected]
TASK FORCE VI SMALL RUMINANTS
Christopher Hylkema, NYS Dept. of Ag and Mkts.Albany,
NY [email protected]
THE DAIRY
PRACTICES
COUNCIL®
45thAnnual
Conference
Featuring a Food Safety
Workshop
For Cheesemakers and Small-Scale
Processors (Nov 4th)
November 4 – 7, 2014
Intercontinental Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
DPC is a nonprofit organization of
education, industry and regulatory
personnel, concerned with milk quality
and regulatory uniformity
The Dairy Practices Council®
19 Titus Court., Richboro, PA 18954
Tel / Fax 215-355-5133
Email: [email protected]
www.dairypc.org
This Conference is Approved by NY
State AG & MKTS for Continuing
Education Credits in the CMI & PPS
Programs!