Heather Schofield, Dairy Farmers of America provides insight to the dairy industry to Agribusiness Breakfast

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March 26, 2010 (7:30 AM - 9:00 AM)
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Small Business Development Series

The Small BusineessAdministration with the ODOD, SBDC, Braintree, SCORE and PNC Bank are sponsoring a nine monthe series of seminars to introduce area entrepreneurs and small business owners to Federal, State and regional support resources.

Session 1 "The Resource Network'

March 17, 2010 9 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.

This is an ongoing monthly series, each monthly follow-up session willl focus on a particular resource. Participants should include anyone who is considering starting a business and anyone who is already in business and needs to know more about regional resources.

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The Braintree Bussiness Development Center

201 E. 5th Street

Mansfield, OH 44902

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Heather Schofield, Dairy Farmers of America provides insight to the dairy industry to Agribusiness Breakfast

Heather Schofield, Communications Manager of Dairy Farmers of America, one of the largest cooperatives in the nation, presented "DFA's Role in Today's Dairy Industry" to the 40 attendees of this month's Agribusiness Forum. DFA has members from 48 states, with numbers of members nearing 18,000. Members are guaranteed a market; meaning that DFA will purchase dairy farmers milk and sell it using economies of scale. This enables DFA to sell large quantities of milk to milk retailers and to dairy product companies who produces items such as cheese, yogurt and butter. They have also endeavored to increase the demand for milk by using some for their own production of Border's cheese, powdered milk for brands such as Starbuck's, creating Sport Shake-a milkshake energy drink, and joining together with Keller's creamery to make butter. Heather described to her audience the many ventures that Dairy Farmers of America have taken to help in repairing a falling economy.