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Dan is a lawyer with concentration in state and federal milk market regulation, and has served as special counsel for dairy regulatory and development efforts in a number of states across the country. He was founding Executive Director of the Northeast Dairy Compact Commission, former Legislative Counsel for the Vermont Legislature (House and Senate Agriculture Committees), law clerk for Honorable Fredric W. Allen, Chief Justice, Vermont Supreme Court, and has served on a number of local boards and commissions. He is also trained as a rough frame carpenter. He currently resides on a hill farm in central Vermont with family, beef cows, chickens, and occasionally pigs.

CO-FOUNDER

Roger is the former Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, former State Director of Vermont Farm Service Agency, and former VP and Member of Senior Management Team of Farm Credit Banks and Bank for Cooperatives for the Northeast. He also served on the professional staff of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture and was appointed as a member & chair of the USDA/USTR Animal and Animal Products Trade Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Ambassador. He was a member of the International Market Team of a Washington D.C. law firm and was a participant as NGO in the Seattle Round of Multinational Trade Negotiations. He was also a past chair of the Working Landscape Council of the Vermont Council on Rural Development.