EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Charlie Haynes of Calais, Vt., was among six students from Cornell University receiving scholarship awards at the 2026 Northeast Dairy Management Conference (NEDM), March 4 to 5.
The Richard Popp Scholarship Fund was established by friends, families and colleagues of Dick Popp and honors senior undergraduate students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
For more than 3 decades, the biennial NEDM Conference has connected progressive dairy farmers from across the northeast to learn, share and explore the latest developments and topics shaping the dairy industry. The conference is presented as a collaboration between Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY and the Northeast Dairy Producers Association (NEDPA).
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
