Posted: 03.18.2010

NOTE:  Farm Director, Pam Jahnke, will be acting as emcee for the Monday general session with AMPI.

Dairy farmers from six Midwest states are coming together next week to review the 2009 performance of Minnesota-based Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI), the dairy marketing business they collectively own and govern.
 
Some 400 cooperative members, industry leaders and guests are expected to attend the AMPI Annual Meeting set for March 22–23 at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, Minn.
 
Cooperative leaders, industry experts and policy makers are on the meeting’s program that recaps 2009 and provides perspective on the future of the Midwest dairy industry. AMPI members will also pay homage to their roots as a dairy farmer-owned business while noting the cooperative’s 40th anniversary.
 
Speakers scheduled to address the group include:
 
•      Paul Toft, AMPI Chairman of the Board and dairy farmer from Rice Lake, Wis.
•      Ed Welch, AMPI President and CEO
•      Bill Even, South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture
•      Phil Plourd, dairy market analyst and president of Bliming and Associates Inc.
•      V. J. Smith, motivational speaker
 
The annual delegate session features a review of the cooperative’s financial statements and management reports. Delegates will also consider proposed resolutions, culminating the cooperative’s grassroots policy-making process. The resolutions process gives members an opportunity to determine AMPI positions on issues and policies that affect the cooperative.

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