The Red and White Dairy Cattle Association has hired Anna Troester as their full-time assistant manager. Troester will be located at the office in Clinton, Wisconsin. With this role, she will be assisting with bookkeeping, accounting, herdbook management and processing of registrations, transfers, classifications and show reports. Troester has an extensive background in the dairy industry.
She grew up on her family’s registered Holstein farm, MAARS Holsteins, near Garnavillo, Iowa. Anna became active in the dairy industry at a young age participating in Holstein Quiz Bowl, Holstein Jeopardy, dairy judging and showing registered Holsteins and Red and Whites. She has shown at all levels including World Dairy Expo.
She is a 2011 graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Platteville with a bachelor’s degree in animal science with a dairy emphasis and has a biology minor.
At Platteville, she was heavily involved in clubs and organizations. She was the treasurer of the Pioneer Dairy Club and was on the selection committee for the annual Pioneer Dairy Classic. Also, she was a member of the Sigma Alpha sorority, Agriculture Student Council and the Pioneer Dairy Judging team.
During the fall of 2011, Troester interned with Genex – CRI in their genetics department selecting and picturing daughters for the December 2011 proof release.
Troester is active in her community by being the chairman of the Clayton County Fair Queen contest and helping on the Clayton County Fair Board. She strives to help the younger dairy members of her community to become involved with the many activities available.
She has most recently worked for an embryo export company coordinating all the shipments for export in Boonsboro, Maryland. Also in this role, she covered shows, sales and updated the website.
Before that, Troester worked on her home farm managing the show animals, registering and keeping up the bookwork for registrations. PD
—From Red & White Dairy Cattle Association news release
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