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GENEX Collegiate Scholarship Youth attending a four-year university or two-year technical college in fall 2019 and pursuing a degree in an agricultural field are encouraged to apply for the GENEX Collegiate Scholarship. Applicants must also be affiliated with a GENEX member by having an active role on the member’s dairy or ranch. GENEX members are producers within the contiguous U.S. who have purchased $500 of semen, products and/or services in a 12-month period and submitted a membership agreement form. GENEX will provide a minimum of four $750 scholarships. For more information on the scholarship and to complete the application, visit the GENEX Journal at www.genex.coop. Applications, including applicant photo and two letters of recommendation, must be postmarked by March 30, 2019.
Dugan Elected to GENEX Council
Four Council Members Re-elected
At the GENEX annual meeting, dairy producer Casey Dugan of Casa Grande, Arizona, was elected to his first term on the cooperative’s governing council after serving as a delegate since 2014.
Casey Dugan
In this council position, he represents dairy and beef producers in the GENEX membership region which includes Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Casey is owner of Desperado Dairy in Casa Grande, where he is a thirdgeneration dairy farmer running the 1,000-cow operation. He’s also co-owner of Dugan Brothers LLC, a custom harvesting company, and Dugan Feeds LLC, which distributes feed rations to local farms. He attended Northern Arizona University earning a bachelor’s degree in business and is a graduate of Arizona’s rural leadership program, Project CENTRL. Other industry involvement extends to the United Dairymen of Arizona cooperative and Arizona DHIA. Four incumbents were also re-elected to the GENEX council. Those re-elected to new three-year terms include Dan Tetreault of Champlain, New York; Lamar Gockley of Mohnton, Pennsylvania; Kay Olson-Martz of Friendship, Wisconsin; and Jody Schaap of Woodstock, Minnesota.
Dan Tetreault
Lamar Gockley
Kay Olson-Martz
Jody Schaap
Koepon and CRI combine to form URUS Two strong organizations – one cooperative and one privately-owned company – have combined to form a new global leader in cattle artificial insemination genetics and farm management information. Koepon Holding BV and Cooperative Resources International (CRI) announced their intent to merge in December 2017. Following due diligence and votes by each organization’s board of directors as well as the member delegates of CRI, the business combination was completed in October 2018. The new organization is known as URUS.
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HORIZONS
“While URUS is a new name in the “The companies of URUS will be global agriculture industry, its roots leaders in new developments for the run deep,” states Cees Hartmans, cattle industry,” states Hartmans. CEO. “The companies within the “Dairy and beef cattle producers are URUS family – AgSource, Alta the heart of this organization, and Genetics, GENEX, Jetstream so we want to ensure our members Genetics, PEAK/GENESIS, SCCL and clients have access to the and VAS – have a history of serving best products and services at a dairy and beef producers across competitive price. We want to be your the world. Now, as part of this new partner of choice for cattle genetics, organization, these companies are reproduction and farm management even better positioned to meet the information for years to come. future needs of members and clients.” “Together, we can focus on producing The formation of URUS, with its high-quality and healthy food size and scale, makes possible a while contributing to a sustainable, significant increase in investment productive and profitable global dairy towards products and services that and beef industry.” will benefit producers across the globe.
