Financial Information

For the first nine years, revenue flowed only from individual membership dues and sales of guidelines.  Financial support from sustaining members and Cooperative Extension commenced in 1978.  The following year, state departments of agriculture and health initiated support.

Continuously since 1978, the Northeast Extension Directors, as a group, and on an annual basis, had approved proportionate financial support of NDPC.  The several states represented were: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.  Financial support from Cooperative Extension in the states of Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia was on the basis of individual memberships in NDPC.  This continuous funding has been crucial to the ongoing vitality and productivity of the Council.  Deep appreciation is expressed on behalf of the Executive Board and the general membership for this longstanding interest in and support of the Northeast Dairy Practices Council.

The Extension Directors funding continued through the 1994 name change from NDPC to DPC.  After the Council became established as a national organization, a constitutional revision placed state extension systems in the category of education members with specific membership dues.

Currently ninety percent of the funds for this organization are produced by membership dues and by sustaining members, supporting Cooperative Extension at Land Grant Universities and supporting State Departments of Agriculture and Health.  The additional funds come through Guideline sales.

The membership is comprised of Sustaining Members, supporting Cooperative Extension at Land Grant Universities, supporting State Departments of Agriculture and Health and Individual Members. This makes possible the automatic distribution of DPC Guidelines to many people who serve the Dairy Industry in the United States, Canada and worldwide.