NMPF National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program

Established in 1916, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is the oldest farm commodity organization in the United States and represents the interests of dairy cooperatives that are owned and operated by dairy farm families. NMPF provides a forum through which these dairy farmers and cooperatives may formulate national policy on issues affecting the production of milk and dairy beef.

NMPF's Board of Directors offers several scholarships each year to qualified graduate students (enrolled in Master's or Ph.D. programs) who are actively pursuing dairy-related fields of research that are of immediate interest to NMPF member cooperatives. Graduate students pursuing research of direct benefit to milk marketing cooperatives and dairy producers are encouraged to submit an application (applicants do not need to be members of NMPF to qualify).

Recommended fields of study include but are not limited to:

 

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

 

Each year, the top scholarship applicant is awarded the Hintz Memorial Scholarship, which was established to honor Murray Hintz following his death in 2005. Hintz served as Chairman of the Board for Cass-Clay Creamery, Inc., one of the cooperatives which played a key role in establishing NMPF's National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program.

Learn more about past NMPF scholarship recipients.

 

 

NMPF Congratulates Recipients of 2011 Scholarship Program


At their June meeting, the NMPF Scholarship Committee selected four graduate students to receive scholarships as part of the 2011 NMPF National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program.

 

These students are all conducting research in areas that will benefit dairy cooperatives and producers.

 

The 2011 Hintz Memorial Scholarship, given to the top scholarship candidate, was awarded to João Paulo Nascimento Martins, a Ph.D. candidate in Animal Science at the Michigan State University. His research project is: "The effect of enhanced luteinizing hormone pulses during ovulatory follicle development on oocyte competency and subsequent pregnancy losses in dairy cattle".
Other scholarship winners included:
  
  • Daniel Garrido, a Ph.D. candidate in Food Science at the University of California-Davis, with his research project, "Molecular validation of the prebiotic properties of casein glycomacropeptides".
  • Amanda Sterrett, a M.S. candidate in Animal Science at the University of Kentucky, with her research project, "Characterization of relationships between lying behavior, rumination behavior, and core body temperature using novel precision dairy farming techniques".
  • Laura Bradner, a M.S. candidate in Biochemistry at the Iowa State University, with her research project, "Optimization of methods for the detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in milk and colostrum of naturally infected dairy cows".

 

The Scholarship Committee was impressed with the quality of applications and thanked all of the students who applied for the 2011 program. All eligible students are encouraged to apply next year.

 

If you have any questions about the NMPF scholarship program, please call the NMPF office at 703-243-6111, or email Beth Briczinski.