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What's Going on in Governance

What's Going on in Governance. Les Hardesty Mountain Area Council Chairman. DFA Overview. A farmer-owned cooperative 9,500 member farms; 17,000 members 20 percent of U.S. milk production produced by members DFA markets 33 percent of U.S. milk – 63 billion pounds $8.1 billion in sales. 2.

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What's Going on in Governance

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  1. What's Going on in Governance Les Hardesty Mountain Area Council Chairman

  2. DFA Overview A farmer-owned cooperative 9,500 member farms; 17,000 members 20 percent of U.S. milk production produced by members DFA markets 33 percent of U.S. milk – 63 billion pounds $8.1 billion in sales 2

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  4. DFA Member DemographicsQuartile 1, 2, 3 and 4 (March 2010)

  5. DFA Plants Plymouth, Wis. Middlebury Center, Pa. Zumbrota, Minn. Adrian, Mich. Winthrop, Minn. St. Albans, Vt.* Hughson, Calif. Reading, Pa. Fort Morgan, Colo. Springfield, Mo. Goshen, Ind. Mechanicsburg, Pa. Turlock, Calif. Beaver, Utah Cabool, Mo. New Wilmington, Pa. Monett, Mo. West Middlesex, Pa. Portales, N.M.* Ventura, Calif. Winnsboro, Texas Houston, Texas Cheese Ingredients Ingredients Contract Manufacturing Consumer Brands Schulenburg, Texas *While not wholly owned DFA plants, DFA's ingredients business is responsible for the sales and marketing of these plants' products.

  6. Affiliate Network: Manufacturing

  7. Affiliate Network

  8. DFA Values 8

  9. DFA’s Farm Services

  10. Grassroots Our Cooperative is owned and governed by our members.

  11. DFA Areas 11

  12. Area Councils • Each area has a council governing body and delegates • DFA is divided into seven geographic Areas, ensuring grassroots representation of members • Each Area is governed by an Area Council, which monitors the marketing of milk and local issues • Members elect representatives to serve on their Area Councils

  13. Area Delegates • Within each Area, members elect delegates to serve as their Area’s voice on issues • Delegates travel each year to DFA’s Annual Meeting to discuss and vote on a slate of resolutions for the Cooperative • Delegates also elect the DFA Board • Resolutions guide DFA’s Board and leadership when making business decisions

  14. Resolutions • Any DFA member may propose a resolution through their Area’s resolutions committee • Area resolutions committees vote on proposed resolutions and submit to the corporate resolutions committee • Corporate resolutions committee members – made up of representatives from area resolutions committees - vote on proposed resolutions to present to DFA’s voting membership (delegates) • Resolutions are taken from the floor

  15. Grassroots Structure

  16. Leadership 51 Member Board of Directors

  17. Grassroots An active and engaged Board

  18. Board Committees • Standing Committees • Finance and Budget • Value Added • Fluid Marketing and Public Policy • Government, Member and Public Relations

  19. Board Committees • Other Committees • Audit • Legal • Compensation • Retirement • DEPAC • DFA Risk Management • DPI

  20. Board Committees • Other Committees, continued • International Dairy Trade Policy • Agri-Max • Membership Credentials • Technology Sub-Committee (of Audit) • Price Stabilization Study

  21. What the Board Does • Each Area Council elects representatives to serve on DFA’s Board of Directors • Board members serve two-year terms and are elected at DFA’s Annual Meeting • DFA’s Board meets throughout the year to discuss and vote on key business decisions • In addition, business operating decisions like mergers and acquisitions, capital expenditures and member equity payments require Board approval

  22. Strategic Planning Process • Board recently completed a strategic planning process • Every three to four years, DFA’s Board and management reviews and revises the Cooperative’s Strategic Plan • This plan is a living document and changes with priorities • This process was recently completed and a revamped strategic plan was introduced • DFA’s leadership uses the strategic plan as a guide in making business decisions

  23. Strategic Mission

  24. Leaders in Other Organizations

  25. Leaders in Other Organizations Agropur Cooperative Alpenrose Dairy, Inc. Anderson Erickson Dairy Company Arla Foods, Inc. Arps Dairy, Inc. Arthur Schuman, Inc. Asael Farr & Sons Company Aurora Organic Dairy more...

  26. Leaders in Other Organizations Arla Foods Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Fonterra FrieslandCampina International Dairy Federation Nestlé more…

  27. “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones who are most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin

  28. “Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.” Jim Collins

  29. Thank you

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