Featured speakers for the 2012 Annual Meetings of the American Jersey Cattle Association and National All-Jersey Inc. will be Dana H. Coale, deputy administrator for the USDA's AMS Dairy Programs, and Roger A. Cady, Ph.D., senior technical advisor and sustainability lead on the Elanco food industry and consumer affairs team.

The meetings will be held at the North Conway Grand Hotel in North Conway, New Hampshire, June 27-30.

Coale will address the 54th Annual Meeting of National All-Jersey Inc. on Friday afternoon, June 29.

Coale has spent nearly her entire career with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Dairy Programs.

She began as an agricultural marketing specialist in 1990 working with the federal milk marketing order program. Prior to her appointment as deputy administrator in 2004, she served as the associate deputy administrator for Dairy Programs for almost three years.

The AMS Dairy Programs is responsible for administering the Federal milk marketing order program, reporting dairy market news, developing dairy product standards, inspecting and grading dairy products and facilities, reviewing equipment for meat and poultry processing, and overseeing dairy producer and fluid milk processor promotion and research programs.

Cady will be the featured presenter for the seminar programs starting 4 p.m. June 27.

In his role as senior technical advisor and sustainability lead on the Elanco food industry and consumer affairs team, Cady works with the dairy industry and retail chain providing sound science to support sustainable agricultural practices.

His current work is focused on methods to reduce natural resource use in the production of food animal protein and promote environmentally sustainable practices in the food animal industry.

Cady has served several technical roles during his 12-year employment at Monsanto and now Elanco Animal Health. Prior to working in industry, Cady was professor and extension dairy specialist for 18 years at University of New Hampshire and Washington State University.

He was co-founder of a popular international email discussion group covering dairy herd management issues. He is also a founder of the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA).

Cady is a member and past officer in the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) and has served on various national and state industry committees and boards. He was recipient of the Alfa-Laval Agri, ADSA Award for excellence in dairy cattle extension.

In 1999, the DCHA created an award named in his honor which is presented annually for excellence in service to dairy heifer growers.

Seminars
The June 27 seminars will include hands-on workshops for Herd View and JerseyMate, two of the web-based services available from the American Jersey Cattle Association (AJCA).

Participants are encouraged to bring their laptop or tablet computers to the sessions, which will be conducted by Cari Wolfe, AJCA's director of research and genetic programs, and Brad Barham, business development consultant.

Information and registration for the 2012 AJCA-NAJ Annual Meetings is available online or by calling (614) 322-4456. Hotel reservations must be made no later than May 26.  PD

—From American Jersey Cattle Association news release