Activities and Accomplishments ReportThe Activities and Accomplishments Report is an account of various achievements of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF). Published annually, the report provides cooperative members with an accurate glimpse of NMPF's actions and the important issues it faces each year.
The credit for NMPF’s accomplishments in 2011 is properly given to its members for their commitment to thoughtful, realistic and comprehensive positions. Rather than pursuing quick or easy solutions that later prove to be neither, NMPF has always committed itself to investing in, and achieving, long-term, strategically-focused goals. Such was the case in 2011, when we continued our effort to fundamentally reform dairy policy. We persistently communicated to the dairy sector, and lawmakers, the rationale for why Foundation for the Future – a thoroughly-vetted package of reforms – is the best hope to provide a better safety net for farmers. That effort bore fruit last year, both through the grassroots tour that NMPF’s staff conducted, as well as in the serious consideration that leaders in Congress gave to our legislative proposal, which has evolved into the Dairy Security Act. As we start 2012, NMPF’s investment in Foundation for the Future is well-positioned to be enacted by Congress. But this commitment to pragmatic and effective ideas was also seen in our efforts on trade policy, food safety, the environment, immigration reform, as well as in other areas that are addressed in the pages of this report. I want to thank our staff for their hard work on all of these things. I know we’ll continue in 2012 to successfully bring to fruition the goals of our members. Jerry Kozak
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