USDA, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy sign memorandum of understanding
The organizations will work together to promote, enhance environmental sustainability in the dairy industry.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Feb. 14 between the USDA and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy (Innovation Center) to jointly promote and enhance environmental sustainability in the dairy industry. The pact extends and builds upon a MOU originally signed in 2009.
Perdue signed the MOU with Arizona dairy farmer Paul Rovey, chairman of Rosemont, Ill.-based Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) and an Innovation Center board member, at DeGroot Dairies in Hanford, Calif., DMI said.