Wisconsin Ag Connection - New Directors Elected to World Dairy Expo Board

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New Directors Elected to World Dairy Expo Board
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 03/12/2010

The board of directors at World Dairy Expo have approved four new members to sit on its panel. During the group's annual meeting, Angie Coburn, Mike Hellenbrand, Steve Larson and Bryan Voegeli were elected to serve on the board.

Coburn serves as Procurement Manager for Genex Cooperative, Inc./CRI of Shawano. She has been with the company for fourteen years, and is currently responsible for all bull and embryo acquisitions while overseeing their GENESIS nucleus program.

Hellenbrand and his wife Linda, own and operate City Slickers Farm in Cross Plains. They manage an intensive embryo transfer business, currently implanting approximately 1,000 dairy embryos annually. City Slickers consists of 250 recipients and 350 ET animals that are primarily owned in partnership arrangements.

Larson has been with Hoard's Dairyman in Fort Atkinson since 1969. Since 1998, he has served as Managing Editor, and now directs the editorial content and production of the international dairy magazine. He also prepares Washington News and the magazines' coverage of milk marketing and dairy policy, dairy product promotion, feeding and nutrition, and mastitis and herd health.

And Voegeli is the fifth generation to operate Voegeli Farm, Inc., in Monticello. Registered Brown Swiss cattle have been on the farm since 1895. Today, Voegeli manages a milking herd of 200 registered Brown Swiss and works about 1,100 acres of cropland.

World Dairy Expo's board is composed of a variety of business professionals and dairy producers from the United States and Canada.