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New Directors Elected to World Dairy Expo Board
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 03/12/2013
The board of directors at World Dairy Expo have approved three new members to sit on its panel. During the group's annual meeting this month, Olivier Hiers, Larry Purdom and Steve Blessing were elected to serve on the board.
Hiers represents BouMatic, where he is the Global Marketing Director. He had previously headed the European Marketing Division of BouMatic. Olivier has extensive marketing experience with RFID and medical device development. Additionally, he has hands-on experience as a milker in an Australia dairy.
Olivier, Marissabel and their son, Kenneth recently relocated to Madison.
Purdom works for Dairy Farmers of America. He is chairman of both the Missouri Dairy Association and Congressional Agriculture Advisory Committee and serves on the Midwest Dairy Association and the county Farm Bureau boards. He previously served on the National Dairy Board. Larry, along with his
wife and daughter, milk 140 cows, grow corn silage and hay, and raise a small herd of beef cows on 700 acres in Purdy, Missouri.
And Blessing, Indiana, represents the Purebred Breeders of World Dairy Expo. He owns Blessing Farms along with his brother, Stan. They have developed a globally recognized Brown Swiss herd, breeding and showing over 40 All-American Brown Swiss animals and numerous leading A.I. sires. Steve and his
family have exhibited cattle at WDE for over forty years including winning Grand Champion twice and Reserve Supreme Champion at World Dairy Expo. He has also judged at state and national dairy cattle shows.
World Dairy Expo's board is composed of a variety of business professionals and dairy producers from the United States and Canada.
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