Holstein World: Share with our readers a little bit about your background. What experiences and achievements have brought you to your position as Executive Secretary?

Seth Johnson: I grew up in Rhode Island. My family has a greenhouse operation and a florist shop. Although nobody in my family has a dairy farm, I showed Ayrshires in 4-H and was very active in FFA. I graduated with a degree in Dairy Science from Virginia Tech in 1995. My participation in the Dairy Club of Virginia Tech and the judging team there were extremely valuable experiences that really opened my eyes to the opportunities that were available in the dairy industry. I started two weeks after college graduation with the American Guernsey Association. During my first four years I traveled almost all the time, scoring cows for Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Milking Shorthorn and working primarily with the AGA marketing and young sire programs. In 1999, I was offered the Executive Secretary job after my boss resigned to milk cows with his family in Wisconsin. I was only 25 when I took this position, but I tried to learn from those that had been involved in the Guernsey breed for far longer than I had and those in similar positions in the industry.

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