2026 NDHIA Annual Meeting Press Release – March 2026
2026 National DHIA Leadership photo
DairyBusiness article on the National DHIA Leadership Sessions and 61st Annual Business Meeting
Leadership Session Presentations:
| Presenter(s) | Title | PDF/Video |
| Robert Fourdraine, DRMS and John Cole, CDCB | “Animal ID – Use and Usability in DHI/CDCB Programs” | Cole PDF – Fourdraine PDF |
| Donagh Berry, Director of VistaMilk SFI Centre Teagasc – Ireland | “From Spectrum to Selection: A Review of Where We Are and Where We Might Go” | PDF |
| Donatus Majus and Dominykas Vizbaras, Brolis and Steve Pretz, CEO Boumatic | “New Technology for Data Generation” | PDF |
| Jamie Junker, Chief Scientific Officer, National Milk Producers Federation | “Update on the FARM Program” | PDF |
| Dennis Johnson and Trent Thompson, Paramount Group, LLC | “Your trusted partner in manufacturing excellence“ | PDF |
| Steven Sievert, Technical Director NDHIA/QCS, Jay Mattison, CEO NDHIA/QCS and Uffe Lauritsen, Technical Project Manager iCOW | “iCOW – Working for the future on milk sampling” | Mattison/Sievert PDF – Lauritsen PDF |
| Stan Erwine, Dairy Management Inc. | “State of the Dairy Industry, Promotion and Innovation Conversations” | PDF |
| Mary Mattison, Project Manager, ETC; Leslie Thoman, Business Manager DHIA Services | “EarTagCentral is Here for You” | PDF |
| Jeff Cox, Y-Tex Corp | “Y-Tex Update“ | PDF |
| Stephanie Sexton, New Products Manager, Premier 1 Supplies | “Caisley Update” | PDF |
| Joao Durr, CEO, John Cole, Chief Scientific Officer | “CDCB Update“ | PDF |
| Jay Mattison, CEO, NDHIA-QCS-DHIA Services | “iDDEN Update” | PDF |
| Fiona Guinan, Livestock Data Analytics Expert, CDCB | “Resilience in Dairy Cattle – the Concluding Chapter” | PDF |
National DHIA Annual Business Meeting Presentations:
(Patriotic video, NDHIA Collaborator reports, Operations report)
| Robyn Buttars, Composer & Author | “These are the Stars” | Video |
| Daniel Lefebvre, Lactanet | Canadian Industry update | PDF |
| Randy Baldwin, USDA-ARS-AGIL | Government update | PDF |
| Ana Granados Chapatte, ICAR CEO | International Committee on Animal Recording update | PDF |
| Jay Weiker, NAAB | National Association of Animal Breeders update | PDF |
| Jay Mattison, CEO, NDHIA-QCS-DHIA Services | Operations Report | PDF |
