GLICKMAN FILLS VACANCY ON NATIONAL DAIRY BOARD 
                                           Release No. 0137.00 
                                                               
                                 Becky Unkenholz (202) 720-8998
                                       becky.unkenholz@usda.gov
                                    Susan McAvoy (202) 720-4623
                                          susan.mcavoy@usda.gov

GLICKMAN FILLS VACANCY ON NATIONAL DAIRY BOARD
                          
     WASHINGTON, April 26, 2000--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today
announced the appointment of Neil Hoff of Windhorst, Texas, to fill a vacancy
in region 4 on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board.  Region 4
includes Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.  Hoff will serve
the remainder of a 3-year term ending Oct. 31, 2002.  The vacancy was created
by the resignation of John B. Stacks of Damascus, Ark.  

     The National Dairy Promotion and Research Board is composed of 36 dairy
farmers representing 13 regions of the contiguous United States and
administers a coordinated program of promotion, research, and nutrition
education. 

     The board was established by the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of
1983.  It is authorized to design programs to strengthen the dairy industry's
position in domestic and foreign markets.  The national program is financed by
a mandatory 15-cent per hundredweight assessment on milk produced in the
contiguous 48 states and is marketed commercially by dairy farmers.  USDA's
Agricultural Marketing Service monitors the operation of the Board.

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