what's going on in governance
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What's Going on in Governance
Les HardestyMountain Area Council Chairman
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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
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DFA Member DemographicsQuartile 1, 2, 3 and 4 (March 2010)
Quartile Farms Avg Cows 1 124 3,588 2 275 1,623 3 982 455 4 8,180 55
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Cheese IngredientsIngredientsContract ManufacturingConsumer Brands
Turlock, Calif. Beaver,
Utah
Zumbrota, Minn.
Monett, Mo. West Middlesex,
Pa.
New Wilmington, Pa.
Hughson, Calif. Fort Morgan,
Colo.
Schulenburg, Texas
Springfield, Mo.
Cabool, Mo.
Winthrop, Minn.
Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Ventura, Calif. Winnsboro,
Texas
Plymouth, Wis.
Adrian, Mich.
Goshen, Ind.
Reading, Pa.
Middlebury Center, Pa.
*While not wholly owned DFA plants, DFA's ingredients business is responsible for the sales and marketing of these plants' products.
Portales, N.M.*
St. Albans, Vt.*
DFA Plants
Houston, Texas
Affiliate Network: Manufacturing
Affiliate Network
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DFA Values
DFA’s Farm Services
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Grassroots
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Our Cooperative is owned and governed by our members.
DFA Areas
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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
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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
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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
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Grassroots Structure
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Resolutions Committee
Area Delegates
Area Councils
Executive Committee
Board of Directors
Northeast
Delegates
Resolutions
Mideast
Delegates
Resolutions
Southeast
Delegates
Resolutions
Central
Delegates
Resolutions
Mountain
Delegates
Resolutions
Southwest
Delegates
Resolutions
Western
Delegates
Resolutions
Leadership
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51 Member Board of Directors
Grassroots
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An active and engaged Board
Board Committees• Standing Committees
– Finance and Budget– Value Added– Fluid Marketing and Public Policy– Government, Member and Public Relations
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Board Committees• Other Committees
– Audit– Legal– Compensation– Retirement– DEPAC– DFA Risk Management– DPI
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Board Committees• Other Committees, continued
– International Dairy Trade Policy– Agri-Max– Membership Credentials– Technology Sub-Committee (of Audit)– Price Stabilization Study
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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
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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
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Strategic Mission
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Leaders in Other Organizations
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Leaders in Other Organizations
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Agropur CooperativeAlpenrose Dairy, Inc.Anderson Erickson Dairy CompanyArla Foods, Inc.Arps Dairy, Inc.Arthur Schuman, Inc.Asael Farr & Sons CompanyAurora Organic Dairymore...
Leaders in Other Organizations
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Arla FoodsDairy Farmers of America, Inc.FonterraFrieslandCampinaInternational Dairy FederationNestlémore…
“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones who are most
responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
“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
Thank you
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