-: Hi, I'm Jenna Davis and I am from Cokato, Minnesota
and I work for Midwest Dairy Association
and what I do is I'm a Program Manager.
So essentially I help inform
our farmers of how their dollars,
their checkoff dollars are being spent
on different projects that they support
and kinda relay that message
and at Midwest Dairy our main goal
is really building sales and trust
amongst consumers about dairy products.
So really growing that base and that royalty back to dairy,
and we're really excited about that.
So I started back in the end of February.
So I am still relatively new in my role,
but at Midwest Dairy some of the things that we work on,
is we work directly with our division board.
We also work directly with our farmers
and we conduct training sessions for them
in how to communicate to the public.
Maybe social media training
and we also have an interesting aspect.
In the dairy world we actually have a program called
Fuel up to play 60,
that you might be familiar with,
and that's where we partner with the NFL
and we help provide important programing
on health and wellness,
and also at Midwest Dairy,
I kinda work on the other side of things too
and that is planning and
some of our educational events for us to eat.
Trade association and that is a little bit separate,
but essentially it's event planning
and I get to plan the huge expo here
that is coming up at the end of November that is.
We are really excited for
and it's a lot,
it's a pretty unique thing that where we can congregate
a lot of different farmers from across Minnesota
where they can learn and see some valuable speakers
and get some insights and hopefully
take some of those practices that they've learned
about at the conference and maybe
put them into practice at their own farm.
And the other thing we have to do is always stay relevant.
So we're always looking for new ideas
of how we can
kind of help producers grow themselves
and kind of learn more,
because learning never ends.
Education might end but learning never ceases.
I've learnt that from one of my favorite
teacher growing up and she was absolutely correct,
that learning never ends,
and that's why we try to perpetuate
in my job is to always stay fresh and relative
relevant with new ideas.