Pipeline VOL 33, NO 4 PIPELINE IS THE NEWSLETTER OF MARYLAND & VIRGINIA MILK PRODUCERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION JULY/AUGUST 2017 In this issue: YC Summe Beak Registation... Quality Access Options... YCs Fly-In on The Hill... Messick Fam Membe Pofile... Tading Post... Co-op Cooks & Co... 2 3 4 5 6 7 GoingAll In Keeping the family fam business in the family In 1979, membe John Mast, his wife Mahala and thei six childen moved to Cossville, Tennessee. They added thee moe childen to the fold and in 1985 they puchased a daiy to keep thei five boys busy. Son Tim has been involved on the fam since he was 11 yeas old, with the exception of a few yeas away teaching in a voluntay sevice pogam. In 2014, John and Tim welcomed son-in-law Mac Mille to the opeation. Mac bought a stong backgound in daiy poduction and a keen inteest in bottling milk to the family business. The eal hudle they faced was how to make the business wok. We e not in a daiy aea, and we didn t see an 80- cow daiy suppoting thee families. Instead of adding moe cows and poducing moe milk, we decided to see if we could get moe fo the milk that we wee aleady poducing, says Tim. I always thought ou aea deseved to have a poduct like ou own milk that is poduced locally, says 75-yea-old John. Moe and moe people want to know whee thei food comes fom. It was eithe go all in o add cows, adds Tim. All in they went, and what once had been a bight idea became a eality with the opening of Sunise Daiy, a full-sevice John Mast, Sunise Daiy patiach bottling facility, in Januay 2016. The Masts had bought a complete bottling system fom anothe Mennonite family exiting the business. John, Tim and Mac set it up just a half mile down the oad fom the fam, in what had been an old county stoe and deli. They tansfomed the space into thei own fam stoe whee they sell a nonhomogenized whole, 2-pecent, fat-fee, chocolate and stawbey milks, ice ceam, butte and meats. Some 18 months late, the family pocesses about 1,000 gallons each week, plus they un 150 gallons of ice ceam mix when needed. In thei pusuit of offeing the most fesh and natual poduct, the Masts have embaced a pocessing appoach that esults in a ich, flavoful taste. The pocedue stats on the fam with thei 80 Holsteins that ae milked twice-a-day in a doublesix heingbone palo. The Masts have always paid close attention to thei on-fam aw milk quality. They have thee plaques, making nealy 18 yeas of annual quality awads fom Mayland & Viginia. Tim utilizes DHIA testing and individual cow samples to monito milk quality. He aims fo somatic cell counts at 150,000 o bette, and he likes his peliminay incubation count 2,000 o less. The two tactics he cedits fo keeping down PI counts ae pesonally making sue soap is in the tank washe befoe it uns, and that evey week the fesh cow bucket milke is sanitized with soap and acid. Going All In continued on page 6
Makets At-A-Glance NASS Cheese Pice Staying ontop of You Quality Counts The NASS Block Chedda pice fo July 8, 2017 is $1.61 - up ten cents fom the pevious yea, despite having fallen ten cents ove the last fou weeks. Class I Move July 2017 Class I Move is $16.59 up $1.28 fom July 2017, and up $2.89 compaed to the same month last yea. Pipeline is published by MARYLAND & VIRGINIA MILK PRODUCERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, INC. Ambe Sheidan, Edito - asheidan@mdvamilk.com Rebecca Chuchill, Contibuto - chuchill@mdvamilk.com Daniela Roland, Contibuto - doland@mdvamilk.com Ann Maie Tenullo, Ceative Diecto HEADQUARTERS 1985 Isaac Newton Squae West, Suite 200 Reston, Viginia 20190-5094 800-552-1976 phone 757-952-2370 fax Dial Line 800-485-8067 www.mdvamilk.com OFFICERS Dwayne Myes Pesident Kevin Sattewhite Fist Vice Pesident Jay Byant CEO, Teasue & Secetay Matt Hoff Second Vice Pesident Registation is still OPEN Registe Today! Visit the event page at http://bit.ly/ycsummebeak, o call 800-552-1976, to egiste. Join fellow Mayland & Viginia Young Coopeatos as we ock n oll ou way down south and exploe the best of what the Iedell County countyside has to offe. Tou stops will include: Rocky Ceek Daiy Owned by lage animal veteinaian Ben Shelton, Rocky Ceek Daiy featues a double-16 paallel palo and milks an aveage of 1,250 cows, with an additional 1,350 heifes. In addition to poducing high-quality milk, Rocky Ceek Daiy s pimay focus is to cultivate longevity in its hed though cow comfot and cleanliness. Lucky L Jeseys Dennis Leamon and his wife May Beth have been daiying fo 42 yeas. Although he didn t gow up on a daiy fam, Dennis discoveed his love fo daiying while aising his fist 4-H calf at the young age of nine. Today, Lucky L Jeseys milks moe than 150 full-bed, egisteed jeseys on a 200 ace-gazing opeation, and the hed aveages 60 pounds pe cow pe day. Talley-Ho Fams Talley-Ho Fams, owned and opeated by Rick and Beth Talley, is home to moe than 340 cows in Olin, Noth Caolina. The hed aveages about 70 pounds of milk pe cow pe day. Recent fam modifications include new fee stalls and a calf ban. Gayhouse Fams Bothes Jimmy and Andy Gay fam with thei paents Reid and Peggy at thei Stony Point, Noth Caolina fam. They have a commecial hed of 400 milk cows and 400 heifes, including 35 egisteed animals, that they milk in a double-eight low-line palo with 16 units. The fam is in the pocess of constucting a new milking facility on an adjacent popety, and the family hopes to be up and unning at the new daiy in mid-2017. Stamey Cattle Company Moe than 60 yeas ago, Howad Stamey established Stamey Fams as a family daiy fam and pemiee heife opeation. Since 1975, the family has been poudly expoting egisteed and gade cattle to moe than 30 counties on 5 continents. If you and you family ae able to get away fom the fam, this YC summe adventue is a geat oppotunity to exploe new daiies and make new fiends. Mayland & Viginia will cove lodging, meals and eimbuse tavel expenses up to $400 pe YC family, including membes and membes' employees, ages 18-40. The countdown has begun fo you to ente ou Annual Calenda Photo Contest Plenty of Kodak moments still await in late summe and ealy fall! Keep you camea handy to be eady to captue unique scenes aound you fam and ente you best shots in ou annual photo contest fo a chance to have you winning enty displayed in the 2018 Membe Calenda. Deadline fo enties is Septembe 29, 2017. TAKE A SNAP AT THAT Winnes of the contest also eceive thei choice of a Best Buy gift cad, a custom canvas of thei winning photo, o a new digital camea. The photo contest is open to any membe, family membe o employee of Mayland & Viginia o Mayland & Viginia membe fam. Enties can be submitted electonically o via mail. Paticipants who have enteed photos monthly to ou Fesh-Fom-The-Fam photo contest will have any of thei pevious enties automatically enteed into the unning fo the calenda photo contest. Fo moe infomation and to ente online, visit http://www.mdvamilk.com/media-cente/contests/. TheeWays to get access to you esults any time of day! 1 2 3 Voice Line 1-800-485-8067 The voice line is updated as soon as sample esults ae available. To access you counts using the voice line, you will need to know the following thee pieces of infomation: 1. DIVISION NUMBER Fo FO 1 & 33 = 479 / Fo FO 5, 6 & 7 = 481 2. PRODUCER NUMBER Ente you 6 digit poduce numbe which includes the 1 (Example 123451). If you have a 2nd fam it would be the same but with the 2 (Example 123452). If you poduce numbe begins with a zeo, the leading zeos can be included o omitted and the system will accept eithe way (Example 001231 o 1231). 3. PASS CODE The last fou digits of you Social Secuity Numbe o Fedeal Tax ID Lab Results www.labesults.net This site is also updated as soon as sample esults ae available. To access you counts using labesults.net the pocedue is simila to using the voice line: 1. DIVISION Select you designated division numbe by clicking on the dop down aow and scolling to the appopiate numbe o use the keypad to type it in. (Fo FO 1 & 33 = 479; Fo FO 5, 6 & 7 = 481) 2. PRODUCER NUMBER Ente you six digit poduce numbe with the 1 (Example 123451). If you have a 2nd fam it would be the same but with the 2 (Example 123452). If you poduce numbe begins with a zeo, the leading zeos can be included o omitted and the system will accept eithe way (Example 001231 o 1231). 3. PASSWORD The last fou digits of you Social Secuity Numbe o Fedeal Tax ID Membe Potal www.mdvamilk.com This site is updated nightly seven days a week. Click on the oange Membe Potal button at the top ight of the page, then follow these instuctions: USER NAME This will be you six digit poduce numbe but with the dash (Example 12345-1). If you poduce numbe begins with zeos you will be equied to ente the zeos (Example 00123-1). PASSWORD If this is the fist time you ve logged on you passwod will be Welcome_You Poduce Numbe with the dash (Example Welcome_12345-1). LOGIN You will be diected to update you contact infomation if this is the fist time you ve logged on and you can change you passwod to whateve you like. Then click on the blue button labeled Dashboad Home and then on the blue button with the Check mak fo Quality. 2 PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 3
WHETHER IT S YOUR REPRESENTATIVE OR A STAFFER TALKING TO SOMEBODY IS BETTER THAN TALKING TO NOBODY. Diving west on Route 28 in nothen Viginia, between Manassas and Culpeppe, you pass a handful of daiy fams amongst a sea of sububan planned communities. One of those fams is O.B. Messick and Sons, Inc., whose signs pomise fesh vegetables and fam-made fozen custad, enticing taveles to stop fo a visit. Bothes Ronnie and Jimmy ae the fouth geneation to fam 1,000 aces of land and manage a hed of moe than 350 head of daiy cattle. The Messick family has seen histoy unfold aound them. A numbe of gave stones pay espect to the fallen Civil Wa soldies that once mached acoss the family s fields. A small site of late 19th centuy gavestones ae fenced fo pesevation nea the fam s stawbey patch. Evey yea on the Fouth of July, the Messicks oll out fou antique cannons, and even fie a few. Ronnie Messick takes meticulous cae of his fathe s collection, thee fom the Civil Wa ea and one that pe-dates the Civil Wa. Since they do not use cannon balls when fiing, the Messicks use an old tick of mixing one pound of gunpowde to one pound of flou, which allows the flou to ignite and the gunpowde to explode fo a booming effect. The cannons ae authentic weapons; each with a stoy that Ronnie Messick is poud to shae. The 12-pound Mountain Howitze is light and disassembles so that it could be caied in pieces by mules and used in gueilla wafae engagements. The oldest elic in thei collection, an 1838 Heavy 12-pound Gaison Gun, was meant to be used in fotifications as a defensive weapon. At the end of the day s celebations, the cannons ae olled back to thei special shed and peseved fo the next yea. Ronnie evees thei value as family heilooms and pieces of Ameicana. We all know that quote, if you ignoe histoy you ae doomed to epeat it, he said We need to keep emembeing ou histoy. The Messicks hang thei hat on poducing 3,500 gallons of milk evey day. Due to the poximity to Washington, D.C, the fam faces heavy taffic coidos and pessues fom gowing housing development. The family is no stange to the challenges of the spawling Distict sububs, to which they ve met with innovation and inspiation. The newest poject is Messick s Fam Maket, a fully family-owned stoefont dedicated to poviding feshly picked, healthy, local foods at fai pices. This time of yea, ows of glistening dak beies and dating insects fill the fields, inviting customes to patake in the pick-you-own poduce expeience. Thee ae kid-fiendly distactions including a kangaoo bounce, goats, mist station and tacto ties to climb. The maket stoe is filled with eveything fom fam meats and dy goods to Messick s own jams, vegetables, hebs and cut flowes. Amanda Messick, Ronnie s youngest daughte, vivaciously talks about the new pojects and shaing the fam s stoy with visitos and neighbos. We stated the Fam Maket out of a shed fou yeas ago, and it has not been an easy tansition to make this offshoot a eality, she said. Howeve, they ae poud to be employing 25 people in the community and using good business pactices that ae yielding esults. Mayland & Viginia ecently nominated the Messick's fo a national sustainability awad fo thei faming pactices that include composting and soil and wate consevation. Though thei composting, the family has significantly educed the amount of nutients used on the fam. They have also pemanently potected moe than 700 aces by placing a famland pesevation easement on thei fam, leveaging the dollas fom the easement to einvest back into thei opeations. By installing watees, fencing out steams and using agonomic pactices, such as no-till to potect topsoil, they potect thei local wateways. The family s deep ties to thei community dives thei passion to continue seving Fauquie County and thei hometown of Bealteton with thei daiy fam, pick-you-own fuit, composting opeation and fam maket. We have histoy in these fields the milk, the food, the land it makes me poud evey day, said Amanda. I am poud to be a daiy fame - it keeps pushing me to get moe involved in what we do. Fo moe infomation about the Messick family and thei opeations, please visit https://www.messicksfammaket.com/. Pictued fom left to ight in font of the Capitol building ae YC couples Books and Katie Long, Bian and Rachel Detwile, Jeni and Justin Mallot, along with Mayland & Viginia Copoate Communications Diecto Ambe Sheidan. YCs do DC: Making Connections on Capitol Hill Gatheed with moe than 60 othe young daiy poduces fom aound the county, thee Mayland & Viginia Young Coopeato couples tekked to Capitol Hill duing the National Milk Poduces Fedeation (NMPF) DC Fly-In, June 12-13 2017, in Washington,DC. As pat of the event, 2017 Outstanding YCs Justin and Jeni Mallot of Smithsbug, Mayland, along with Bian and Rachel Detwile, Altoona, Pennsylvania, and Books and Katie Long, Williamspot, Mayland, met with thei state epesentatives and staff to addess impotant issues cuently affecting daiy fames acoss the county. The YCs encouaged thei congessmen and women to povide suppot fo the Daiy Pide Act (DPA) a piece of legislation that would potect the integity of daiy poducts by pohibiting non-daiy options made fom nuts, seeds and othe plants fom using daiy tems in thei labels. Othe impotant daiy issues addessed in thei discussions included navigating the challenges of the cuent Canadian daiy disputes, and suppot of sensible immigation efom. Afte meeting with his legislative offices, Books said talking to somebody is bette than nobody. Even if you can t meet with you epesentative, staffes ae petty intent on listening to what you have to say and elaying you message to you congessman. If you don't talk to anybody, then you have no ight to complain if things don't go you way. This fall, the Mayland & Viginia YC couples will have the oppotunity to epesent the coopeative at the NMPF DMI Joint Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Califonia. Spawling Sububs and Sustainability How the Messick family honos the past while meeting the challenges of moden-day faming and uban spawl 4 PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 5
Tading Post Going All In continued fom page 1 Slow Cooke Pulled Pok 1(4-5 lb.) bone-in pok butt 1 cup bottled babecue sauce 1/2 cup apple cide vinega 1/2 cup wate o chicken both 1/4 cup light bown suga 1 Tbsp. mustad (ty gainy county mustad) The bottling pocess at Sunise Daiy Two Havestoe silos, 20 x 70 ft, in good condition. Call 717-653-2612. When the weathe gets eally hot, the thought of cooking just makes you feel like a noodle. The solution is to pull out you slow cooke, which geneates almost no heat and does the wok fo you. This Slow Cooke Pulled Pok ecipe yields geat esults with tuly minimal effot, and will be a winne with almost eveyone at you table. atments. 1995 Walke taile. 6000 gallon, 2 comp 14. 77-29 Call Lay at 443-2 1 Tbsp. Wocesteshie sauce 1 Tbsp. chili powde 1 exta-lage onion, chopped 2 lage cloves galic, cushed 1 1/2 tsp died thyme Lightly gease the bottom of a slow cooke with cooking spay. Place the pok oast into the slow cooke; pou in the babecue sauce, apple cide vinega, and wate o chicken both. Sti in the bown suga, mustad, Wocesteshie sauce, chili powde, onion, galic, and thyme. Cove and cook on High until the oast sheds easily with a fok, 5 to 6 hous. (Altenately you can cook it on Low fo 10-12 hous.) Remove the oast fom the slow cooke, and shed the meat using two foks. Retun the shedded pok to the slow cooke, and sti the meat into the juices. Seve on olls, buns, tacos, etc. and enjoy! Get moe fo you milk by owning Viginia Milk Commission Base. You don t have to be a Viginia esident to qualify. 150,000 pounds fo sale. Asking $2 pe pound. Pice negotiable. Call 540-399-1165. l uding: 100 feet stainless stee Complete milking system incl yea one s; ato Delaton puls milk line 8 milking units with pump with 10 hp moto; 360 old ebuilt 75 Delaval vacuum ; line; 50 gal vetical wash tank feet of 1 ½ stainless steel compesso; 8 ll sco hp 5 with tank milk 1500 gal Muelle ; watees; 24 foot Famco ASC II Delaval takeoffs; fans tions. Call 301-943-2500. feede with self-locking stan Milking equipment: Suge eceive assembly contol box $250; compessos, coole and tank washe $5,500; all stainless steel gates and paallel stanchions $1,500; 18 Boumatic milkes $900; Suge Alamo vacuum pump $800; 1 Suge and 2 Boumatic pulsation contols $900; 18 pulsatos closed ai filtes and piping $1,200. Milk tansfe pump, stainless steel eceiving jug, filte caniste, and pipeline 3" x 20' milk line, 2" x 40' wash line, and an additional 30' $2,000. Eveything fo $12,000. Call James Smitheman at 335-469-5564. delicious Easy and the Wam Weas The Mast family About 20 pecent of the Masts poduction flows though thei bottling opeation, Mayland & Viginia makets the emaining 80 pecent. The aw milk fom the fam is tucked to the bottling facility once a week and pumped into the vat pasteuize. While most daiies pasteuize milk at 180 degees fo 15 seconds, the Masts choose follow a low-heat method that pasteuizes thei poducts at 145 degees fo 30 minutes. The lowe heat of this method kills off less bacteia and enzymes in the pocess, esulting in moe flavoful milk, said Mac, who ovesees the pocessing at Sunise Daiy. The esulting flavo and feshness has tanslated into local populaity and seveal epeat customes. In addition to thei own fam stoe, Sunise Daiy banded milk is also available at moe than 30 stoes fom Knoxville to west of Nashville, Tennessee. With the bottling opeation fully established, the family is looking to new oppotunities including offeing poduct in plastic pints and gallons. We want to gow, but moe impotantly, we want to give back to the community and povide a local poduct that s fesh fom the fam and as close to natual as possible, says Tim. Hopefully, we can be successful enough fo futue geneations of ou family to keep making a living in the daiy business. Fo moe infomation about Sunise Daiy and whee to buy thei poducts, call 931-277-3777. h s e F Faf m om the Hed of cows fo sale with good feet, legs, uddes and components, including 20 beeding-age heifes. Like new New Holland TS100 open loade tacto, with flotation ties, 19-ton unning gea and 20 foot Mye s wagon. Call 717-552-1500 fo all inquiies. Congatulations to this issue s contest winnes! Taylo Ziegle PHOTO SERIES CONTEST Villa-Pine Fam, Myestown, Pennsylvania Elvin Gaman Elvin & Esthe Gaman Fam, Matinsbug, Pennsylvania te, elined, new conveyo chu 2425 Jay-Lo Mixe Wagon Ready to als. dec with ted pain es, new cok scew and kniv t (270) 382-2866. go. $18,000. Call Tey Tou To place a listing, contact Daniela Roland at doland@mdvamilk.com o call 814-386-8000. 6 Snap a photo and be a winne, too. Help us captue the many special moments that happen on you family s fam! Winnes will be selected and announced bi-monthly in the Pipeline, as well as featued on the coopeative s social media channels. Photo enties fo the contest will also be enteed in the unning fo the 2018 Calenda Photo Contest. Selected monthly winnes will be awaded a $25 Visa gift cad. Submit you enties via email to contest@mdvamilk.com. Please limit 1 photo enty, pe individual. Be sue to include you name, fam name, city, and state when enteing. by E Idea Cooks&Co. Co op Thee s nothing like the fosty espite that heaping scoopfuls of daiy decadence offes on a swelteing summe day. Most of us can emembe making homemade ice ceam fom scatch in chuns, maying ock salt and ice, and canking by hand fo 20 minutes. The esults wee always well woth the sweat and pocess. Not all homemade ice ceams equie the same amount of effot, howeve. If you e looking to savo sweetness without needing to devote the time and enegy, this Zeo-Chun ecipe is fo you. The alcohol keeps ice cystals at bay, but you will need to plan ahead befoe enjoying this teat. Seaching fo moe ways to celebate #NationalIceCeamMonth? Visit @MDVAMilk on Pinteest o visit http://bit.ly/wesceamfoiceceam fo moe ceamy daiy goodness. Noth Caolina Vinega Sauce 1/2 cup white vinega 1/2 cup cide vinega 1/2 Tbsp. suga 1/2 Tbsp. cushed ed peppe flakes (o ty you own chile combos, like Siacha o Sambal Olek) ½ Tbsp. Tabasco o othe hot sauce Salt and feshly-cacked black peppe to taste Whisk ingedients togethe in a bowl. Dizzle on babecued meat. Coveed, sauce will keep about 2 months. Zeo-Chun Ice Ceam 1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk 1 tsp. vanilla paste (o 1 Tbsp. vanilla extact) 2 Tbsp. boubon 2 cups heavy whipping ceam Place a 6-cup containe into the feeze (a glass loaf pan woks pefectly). In a lage bowl, whisk to combine sweetened condensed milk, vanilla paste o extact, and boubon. In anothe lage bowl, use a hand mixe to whip the ceam to stiff peaks, taking cae not to ove-whip the ceam. Fold about one cup of the whipped ceam into the sweetened condensed milk mixtue to lighten, then fold in the emaining whipped ceam. Get the containe fom the feeze and tansfe the ice ceam mixtue to the containe. Feeze fo 5-6 hous, until fim. Note: if you have an ice ceam make, you could just pou this base in and satisfy you need fo instant ice ceam gatification. Change up the flavos by adding diffeent ingedients o mix-ins to the condensed milk. lvin by Taylo View the full-size winning photos at www.mdvamilk.com/media-cente/contests. PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 HEY CO-OP COOKS SHARE YOUR FAVORITE DISHES! Submit you ecipe, contact infomation, and fun fact about you o the dish to Rebecca Chuchill at chuchill@mdvamilk.com o call 703-742-7409. PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 7
PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 1985 Isaac Newton Squae West, Suite 200 Reston, VA 20190-5094 Whee Membes Matte PRST FIRST CLASS U.S. Postage PAID GAM PRINTERS Pemit #379 Dulles, VA HAVE YOU HEARD? DAIRY NEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY We e doing ou vey best to seve you bette. Intenational Daiy Goups Join U.S. in Calling fo Action Against Unfai Canadian Tade Policies An intenational coalition of 10 daiy industy oganizations, including thee U.S. daiy goups, is asking thei govenments tade ministes to intecede in the inceasingly acimonious dispute ove Canada s hamful daiy policies that is having global epecussions. The goups co-signed a joint lette equesting that thei espective tade ministies pusue all avenues available to challenge these measues, including WTO dispute settlement and bilateal tade ageement elationships. The U.S. daiy secto, epesented by the Intenational Daiy Foods Association (IDFA), the National Milk Poduces Fedeation (NMPF) and the U.S. Daiy Expot Council (USDEC), togethe with seven daiy goups fom Agentina, Austalia, the Euopean Union, Mexico and New Zealand, is insisting that Canada emove the ecently implemented policies that ae facilitating the dumping of Canadian daiy poducts in the intenational maket, while making aleady pohibitive Canadian estictions on daiy impots even moe oneous. IDFA will use evey oppotunity to uge administation officials and legislatos who ae woking to modenize the Noth Ameican Fee Tade Ageement (NAFTA) to tackle these unfai, illegitimate and potectionist policies, said Michael Dykes, D.V.M., IDFA pesident and CEO. Jim Mulhen, NMPF pesident and CEO, said that Canada s evised daiy policy amounts to a begga-thy-neighbo appoach, damaging not just its neighbo to the south, but also causing ham to othe majo daiy expoting counties aound the wold. This policy must stop now, befoe any moe damage is done to Ameican fames and those fom othe nations seeking to compete on a level global playing field. National Milk Poduces Fedeation Tump Task Foce to Poduce Seious Plan to Help Rual Ameica, Pedue Says Membes of Pesident Tump s Cabinet and senio officials fom the White House and thoughout the fedeal govenment pledged to foge ageement on ways to boost the fam economy and addess economic and social challenges acoss ual Ameica. Agicultue Secetay Sonny Pedue, hosting the fist meeting of the coss-govenment Task Foce on Agicultue and Rual Pospeity, pomised that the inteagency effot would poduce a seious plan fo changing policies, egulations and laws that inhibit economic gowth. If you know anything about ou pesident, it was not an executive suggestion to poduce the plan, it was an executive ode, Pedue said, flanked by Enegy Secetay Rick Pey, U.S. Tade Repesentative Robet Lighthize, Housing Secetay Ben Cason and Budget Diecto Mick Mulvaney, among othes. The pesident has moved swiftly... to make sue that he lets eveyone know that agicultue is impotant and ual pospeity is impotant, Pedue said. The task foce s assignment will be caied out by woking goups focusing on fou issue aeas: quality of life; ual wokfoce needs; innovation, technology and data; and economic development, Pedue said. The plan that the woking goups will poduce will include ways to measue whethe the ecommendations ae successful in poducing impovements, Pedue told epotes afte the meeting. He did not say when the final epot is due. Agi-Pulse 8 PIPELINE JULY/AUG 2017 FIELD REPRESENTATIVES Rebecca Bush I 443-693-2840 bush@mdvamilk.com Bob Cooksey I 410-778-4603 bcooksey@mdvamilk.com Kelli Davis I 301-471-4152 kdavis@mdvamilk.com Pat Evans I 717-756-9193 pevans@mdvamilk.com Enie Fishe I 301-788-4154 efishe@mdvamilk.com Gant Gayman I 717-261-6856 ggayman@mdvamilk.com Robin Hachak I 814-515-5772 hachak@mdvamilk.com Ashley Hoove I 571-328-1803 ahoove@mdvamilk.com Jim Howie I 704-534-7958 jhowie@mdvamilk.com Laua Jackson I 540-272-0140 ljackson@mdvamilk.com Dave Kleintop I 717-756-6945 dkleintop@mdvamilk.com Janae Klingle I 717-305-8257 jklingle@mdvamilk.com Galen Kopp I 717-575-5478 gkopp@mdvamilk.com Kevan McDonald I 706-340-5161 kmcdonald@mdvamilk.com Cal Pivett I 336-466-0566 cpivett@mdvamilk.com Pete Schaefe I 717-756-6949 pschaefe@mdvamilk.com Lay Seamans I 540-239-0470 lseamans@mdvamilk.com Johnny Spakman I 931-657-6455 jspakma@mdvamilk.com Hannah Walme I 717-304-7967 hwalme@mdvamilk.com Steve Yates I 615-425-6670 syates@mdvamilk.com TANK CALIBRATOR Mike Kidd I 814-623-8340 mkidd@mdvamilk.com