Northeast Dairy Leadership Team
The Center for Dairy Excellence is one of three organizations providing support for the Northeast Dairy Leadership Team, an alliance initiated by a memorandum of understanding signed by the departments of agriculture in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont in June 2006. The NEDLT’s vision is to be the driving force for a vibrant, growing dairy industry through dynamic regional stakeholder collaboration.
The New York Center for Dairy Excellence and the Vermont Dairy Task Force also aid in coordinating this effort. More than 50 individuals representing all facets of the dairy industry in the three leading northeastern dairy states are part of the Northeast Dairy Leadership Team.
Click here to view a fact sheet about NEDLT.
Click here to read information from the NEDLT Newsletter.
NEDLT Holds Fall Meeting
The Northeast Dairy Leadership Team members met recently in Binghamton, N.Y., to discuss tough issues facing dairy farmers throughout the Northeast. Issues like immigration, milk pricing and consumer awareness were highlighted. Read full press release here.
To review meeting notes and presentations, click here.
NEDLT sends letter of support for Farm Bill
The Northeast Dairy Leadership Team recently sent a letter to USDA Agriculture Secretary Ed Schaefer offering support to ensure those who rely on the farm bill can benefit optimally from its programs. Click here to read the letter.
To see an update from Bob Gray on Washington, D.C. -related activities, click here.
Leaders renew support for NEDLT at July meeting
Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff, New York Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker and Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Roger Allbee renewed their support for the Northeast Dairy Leadership Team (NEDLT), an alliance initiated by a memorandum of understanding signed among the three state departments of agriculture in 2006, at the organization’s July meeting in Binghamton, N.Y.
Click here for more meeting highlights.
Northeast Dairy Business Tools Fact Sheet
The NEDLT has put together a fact sheet outlining many of the business tools available to dairy producers in the Northeast.
A Northeast Dairy Benchmark by Dr. Mark Stephenson
Dr. Mark Stephenson with Cornell University Dairy Markets and Policy wrote a 37-page paper identifying key opportunities and constraints within the Northeast dairy industry. The paper was initiated as part of the NEDLT’s efforts to improve the general understanding of the Northeast dairy industry and to better analyze the balancing and seasonality of the Northeast milk supply.
Click here to view the entire report.
For more information about the NEDLT, call John Frey, CDE executive director,
at 717-346-0849.