Friday, November 30, 2012

Session 3

Session 3-Modesto
David Dewit

Our third session was in Modesto at the WUD headquarters. This session would be about California milk Pricing. The fist presenter would be WUD economist Annie AcMoody.  She spoke about how milks is priced in this state. The second presenter was Dr. William Schiek, he told us about the domestic and global outlook concerning dairy products. That night at diner we met Ray Sousa who was a past president and board member of WUD. Ray had a  lot of life experience about the dairy industry and it was interesting to listen to his insight.

The second day we had a meeting with people from CDFA. They were Candace Gates from the dairy marketing branch. She spoke about setting milk prices. Next was Mike Francesconi and the cost production studies and manufacturing cost. Las was Amber Rankin, an Ag Economist, speaking to the California hearing process.  Later that day we me up with John Lee who was the CDFA pooling branch chief, he gave us his Bio and talked about all the things he has done in his career. Don Shippelhoute gave us information about all of the different pooling operations. I enjoyed listening to Shippelhoute, as he has encountered obstacles and had found interesting solutions for them.

The final day was a meeting with WUD CEO, Mike Marsh. Mr. Marsh told us the current state of issues, and what the organization was doing about them. Next, Eric Erba from CDI tols us some facts about production base, plant capacity, and transportation allowances. The last presenter was Tiffany La Mendola of Bliming and Associates, with her tool on Margin Management.

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