CEOs share what dairy checkoff dollars are doing for farmers


CEOs share what dairy checkoff dollars are doing for farmers


“My job is real simple,” says Tom Gallagher, CEO of Dairy Management Inc., the national dairy promotion and research group that is funded by farmers’ checkoff dollars. “I have to get the industry to do things with your product after it leaves the farm that consumers want.”

Gallagher spoke to dairy farmers March 13 during an annual business conference organized by the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin. He was joined in talking about how dairy checkoff dollars are used, by Chad Vincent, CEO of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.

Per capita consumption of milk in the United States has been declining steadily for decades, said Gallagher. The real growth has been in cheese and especially in cheese destined for making pizza and in cheese used in fast food outlets....

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