Twenty-Sixth Southern Dairy Conference
February 7-8, 2000, Holiday Inn, Atlanta Airport North, Atlanta, Georgia
Sponsored by Southern Land Grant Universities
| Program |
| Proceedings |
Monday, February 7, 2000
8:00 am Registration, Coffee and Doughnuts
Morning Session:
9:30 am Welcome Tom Scott, Advisor, Clemson University
9:40 am Change in Milk and Cheese Promotion in the South Bob Earle, SUDIA
10:00 am Retail Product Innovations and Niche Markets
10:20 am Dairy Situation and Outlook Mark Stephenson, Cornell University
11:10 am Dairy Situation and Outlook Discussant Jeff Sims, Dairy Cooperative Marketing Agency
11:30 am Seasonal Class I Price Differentials Richard Kilmer, University of Florida
12:00 noon LUNCH
Afternoon Session:
1:15 pm Leadership Challenges When Cooperatives Merge Joe Wright, Southeast Milk, Inc.
1:45 pm Dairy Farmers: Who Will Survive? Bill Thomas, University of Georgia
2:15 pm Structural Changes in the Fluid Milk Processing Industry George Muck, Dean Foods
3:15 pm Current Status of Dairy Science and Agricultural Economics Departments/Programs at Land Grant Universities - Faculty, Students, and Facilities Tom Scott, Clemson University
3:45 pm Panel Discussion of previous paper
Norman Jordan, North
Carolina Dairyman
Robert Shore, Maryland-Virginia
Cooperative
Floyd Wiedower, Arkansas
Dairy Cooperative Association
Joe Wright
, Florida Dairyman
4:15 pm National Dairy Risk Management Project Cameron Thraen, Ohio State University
4:45 pm Dairy Options Pilot Program Lon Burke, Risk Management Agency, USDA
6:15 pm RECEPTION Sponsor: Monsanto
7:00 pm DINNER Featuring: Larry
Guthrie, University of Georgia
Tuesday, February 8, 2000
8:00 am Dairy Policy, Agriculture Hearings,
and Presidential Politics: The View from Washington
Charles Garrison, Washington, D.C.
8:45 am The Impact of Federal Order Reform on the Southeast Dairy Industry Chris Nubern, National Milk Producers Federation
9:30 am BREAK
10:00 am Impact of Federal Order Reform from a Market Administrator's Perspective Sue L. Mosley, Market Administrator
10:45 am Milk Marketing Cooperatives in the 21st Century Gary Hanman, Dairy Farmers of America
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Electronic proceedings are available at: http://www.ces.uga.edu/Agriculture/agecon/workshops/sdcprog.htm