NMPF National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is now accepting applications for its National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program.

An application form for the scholarship program is attached, as well as an informational flyer that may be displayed on a bulletin board. Please forward this information to qualified graduate students in your department and encourage them to apply.

Each year, NMPF allocates monies toward scholarships for the purpose of supporting graduate students actively pursuing dairy-related fields of research that will directly benefit milk marketing cooperatives and the U.S. dairy industry at large.

Graduate students from a variety of academic disciplines serving the dairy industry have received scholarships from NMPF in recent years. General research areas which have provided useful information to our milk marketing cooperatives include, but are not limited to:

• Agriculture Communications	• Economics
• Animal Health	• Environmental Science
• Animal and/or Human Nutrition	• Food Science
• Bovine Genetics	• Food Safety
• Dairy Products Processing	• Herd Management
• Dairy Science	• Marketing and Price Analysis

Completed applications must be received by NMPF no later than May 4, 2012. Applications are also available on the NMPF website at www.nmpf.org/about_nmpf/scholarship.

The NMPF Board of Directors will select the winning applicants in June 2012. The winners will be notified soon thereafter. For more information, please visit the NMPF website or contact Beth Briczinski at (703) 243-6111 or beth@nmpf.org.

Thank you for helping us in our effort to further the progress and prosperity of the dairy industry through scientific research.

Sincerely,

David Newhouse

Chairman, National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Committee

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), based in Arlington, VA, develops and carries out policies that advance the well-being of dairy producers and the cooperatives they own. The members of NMPF’s 31 cooperatives produce the majority of the U.S. milk supply, making NMPF the voice of more than 32,000 dairy producers on Capitol Hill and with government agencies.