deserves to be recognized for
quality milk production?
to milk quality:
Contributing
Sponsors
A global organization
for mastitis control
and milk quality
The National Dairy
Quality Awards,
now in its 19th year, recognizes the very best in quality milk production.
The goal of the NDQA program is to honor dairy producers from across
the United States who have successfully placed high priority on producing
milk of the highest quality.
NMC, along with quality
partners Merial,
GEA Farm Technologies,
Ecolab, Elanco,
IBA Inc. Select
Sires, and Hoard's
Dairyman are sponsoring this year's awards.
Producers are nominated
using a short questionnaire. NDQA judges then select top applicants
who, working with their nominator, will be asked to complete a more
detailed application form used for final judging. Applications will
be evaluated for measures of quality, systems of monitoring udder health,
milking routine, protocols for detection and treatment of clinical and
subclinical cases, treatment protocols, and strategies for overall herd
health and welfare.
The aim of the NDQA program is to recognize top quality milk producers
of all sizes from all geographic regions of the country. Platinum, gold,
and silver winners will be designated (there will be several winners
in each class).
Platinum award winners will receive national recognition, along with
complimentary registration and complimentary lodging at the NMC 52nd
Annual Meeting, January 27-29, 2013, at the Omni Hotel in San Diego,
where the quality award winners will be announced. The January 10, 2013
issue of Hoard's Dairyman will have a feature article on the
NDQA winners.
All Platinum,
Gold and Silver winners this year will also receive a complimentary,
one-year NMC
membership.
Please be
a part of this effort, and nominate deserving producers from your area
(see below for information regarding nomination forms). The deadline
for submitting nominations is September 1,
2012.
You can read
about the winners from previous years here:
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
For more
information, contact JoDee
Sattler, NDQA coordinator, 608-848-4615, ext 112.
Help the
dairy industry honor its best producers!
Note: Dairy farms that have received a Platinum Award for two consecutive
years will need to "sit out" two years before they are eligible again.
(Meaning that producers who received Platinum recognition for 2010 and
2011 will be eligible again in 2014).
Nomination Process
The program is open to dairy producers in the United States. Producers are nominated using a one-page form. No additional records need to be submitted with this initial screening form. There are two options for completing nomination forms:
NOTE:
ONLINE NOMINATIONS ARE PREFERRED!
1)
Complete the nomination form online. [deadline was Sept 1]
2) Download and print a nomination form to mail or fax to the
NMC office by September 1.
Forms that are incomplete or illegible will
be DISQUALIFIED.
The deadline
for submitting the intial screening form is September 1, 2012.
Judges will review the applications and select the top nominees, who will
be asked to provide additional information on overall herd health
and management practices. The final judging will be completed by late
November.