1. Welcome to the
2017 CDCB Industry meeting!

2. 2017 Industry Meeting Madison, WI, October 3, 2017
CEO Progress Report
2017 Industry Meeting
Madison, WI, October 3, 2017

3. CDCB Vision:
The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) is an industry collaboration that benefits the dairy community by providing gold standard genetic evaluations for the improvement of dairy cattle populations.

4. CDCB Strategic Values Effective industry collaboration
Robust cooperator data base
Cutting-edge R&D by AGIL
Accurate and efficient genetic evaluations
Referential national dairy herd statistics
Enhanced communications

5. Effective collaboration is built over trust and shared visions, and success requires willingness to take risks and competence to innovate.
The CDCB Board of Directors has faced this challenge with diligence, establishing a new organizational structure, developing priorities and creating conditions for the formation of a skilled team to run the operations.

6. CDCB Board of Directors
Dairy Records Providers
Dan Sheldon
DairyOne
Jay Mattison
National DHIA
Patrick Baier AgSource Cooperative Services
National Association of Animal Breeders
Charles Sattler, Secretary Select Sires, Inc.
Gordon Doak
NAAB
Nate Zwald
ABS Global
Purebred Dairy Cattle Association
John M. Meyer, Chair
Holstein Association USA, Inc.
Neal Smith, Treasurer
AJCA-NAJ
Boyd Schaufelberger
Dairy Records Processing Centers
John Clay, Vice-chair
Dairy Records Management System
Bill Verboort
AgriTech Analytics
Ted Foster

7. CDCB Board of Directors
Non-voting Advisory Member of the CDCB Board of Directors
Juan Tricarico
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy
Non-members Supporting the CDCB Board of Directors
Paul VanRaden
ARS-USDA Industry Liaison
Jack Gravelle
CDCB Attorney
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
João Dürr
CDCB Chief Executive Officer
Duane Norman
CDCB Technical Advisor and Industry Liaison
Don Bennink
North Florida Holsteins

8. CDCB Board collaborators and ad hoc groups
CDCB Board of Directors
Standing Committees
Executive Committee
Finance Committee
Working Groups
Genetic Evaluation Methods
Promoting Data Quality
Dairy Evaluation Review
Task Forces
Genomic Laboratory Guidelines
Non-voting, advisory Board members
AGIL Industry Liaison
CDCB representative at Interbull Steering Committee
CDCB Board collaborators and ad hoc groups

9. CDCB Data Access Policies
End user agreement
Agrees not to use results for purposes that are not expressly specified in the agreement
Agrees to acknowledge CDCB as the source of the results
External data requests
Commercial & Research applications
Collaborator’s data & CDCB Products
Material license agreements
General data access
CDCB members, member affiliates & other collaborators

10. Enhanced communications
Look East
Amy te Plate-Church
Communications plan
CDCB Connection
Educational materials
CDCB Industry Meeting

11. Future Policies and Procedures National performance metrics
Dairy herds benchmarcks
Genomic evaluations
Health traits
New data pipelines
Chief data officer
Residual feed intake

12. The CDCB is the result of the U. S
The CDCB is the result of the U.S. dairy industry working together for the common good, empowering dairy farmers to fulfill their essential role of feeding the world.

13. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
The second best time is now.
(Chinese proverb)
Thank You!