Without these dedicated people, the WBFI meetings would be pretty ordinary. If you like to work with groups, destination planning, and the challenges of topics and speakers, this is the committee for you!

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COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Jody Locke
Scoular
Sarine Weingarten-Garcia
Northern Bag & Box Co.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Debbie Brummell
Essex Topcrop Sales Ltd.
Brian Little
Northern Bag & Box Co.
Jaclyn (Jax) Mann
All Star Trading

Without you, our members, WBFI wouldn't exist. Recruiting new members and verifying membership applications is what this committee is all about. Conference calls are the norm for this group. If you believe in the WBFI and what we do, and you are talking to businesses that would make good WBFI members, this may be a good fit for you!

COMMITTEE CHAIR

Craig Brummell
Essex Topcrop Sales, Ltd.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Curtis Kuntz
Red River Commodities

Dave Netten
All Seasons Wild Bird Store

Grant Toellner
Gold Crest Distributing

Chris Tribolet
Hawkeye Commodities

Kacy Gehring
Mountain States Oilseeds

Shelby Kimball
Duncraft Inc.

COMMITTEE CHAIR

Rob Gunstone
Turtle Mountain Seed

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Jim Lesch
Wild Birds Unlimited

Dave Demarco
Birds Choice

Zachariah Hutchinson
Flocking Around

Emily Freeman
Cental Avian/Kaytee

Anthony Puddu
Armstrong Milling Co

Tiffany Howard
Global Harvest

One of the biggest challenges to our businesses is to keep tabs on what's happening and how it will affect our business. This committee does just that. Through conference calls, these people, representing multiple membership categories, discuss the issues and events that may - or may not - affect us. If you're ready to keep tabs on what's happening, this may be a good fit for you!

COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Craig Brummell
Essex Topcrop Sales, Ltd.

Rob Mann
All Star Trading

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Chris Fedorchuk
Volume Freight

Chris Teprovich
All Star Trading

Dave Netten
All Seasons Wild Bird Store

Jim Lesch
Wild Birds Unlimited

Jody Locke
Scoular

Marc Audet
Delmar Commodities

Thomas Krueger
Cereal Byproducts Co.

Dave Demarco
Birds Choice

Jason Tooze
Volkman Pet

Grant Toellner
Gold Crest Distributing

Christy Ogurek
Prince Corp

Through the foresight of our Board members in 2005, WBFI developed and adopted quality standards for wild bird feed and wild bird feeders. This committee monitors our definitions and makes recommendations for additional definitions or updates to existing definitions from time to time. Conference calls are the norm for this group. If you monitor to the quality aspects of your products, you're a good fit for this committee. Shall we add your name?

There are those among us who monitor state, provincial, and federal legislative issues every day. If you are one of these people, this is the committee for you! This is the committee that is monitoring the FSMA regulations development. Conference calls are the norm for this group. Are you interested?

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Lorri Chavez
Central Avian/Kaytee

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Curtis Kuntz
Red River Commodities

Mat Pope
Nuts for Wildlife

A library of white papers is in development as of the spring of 2017. When complete, it will offer WBFI Members access to papers prepared by a scientist that give you information on the diseases that affect wild bird populations. Papers in development include:Avian Influenza

• Avian Pox
• Salmonella
• Listeria
• Mycoplasmosis

You will use these papers for information to structure a response when one of these wild bird diseases breaks out in your area or in an area in which you have customers. These will be provided at no charge to WBFI members.

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Curtis Kuntz
Red River Commodities

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Randall Putz
Chirp Nature Centers

Emily Freeman
Central Avian/Kaytee

Brian Cunningham
Wild Birds Unlimited

PARTNERED RESEARCHERS

Jenna McCullough
UNM

Zach Hutchinson
Flocking Around

This group has been formed to study and evaluate the Nyjer® market. One of the main goals will be to report on the quality of the Nyjer® based on the location it was produced. Then this group will develop an action plan and a potential response as a recommendation to the WBFI Board. 

For more information about the purpose of this group, please contact: info@wbfi.org 

COMMITTEE CHAIR

Reid Barth
All Star Trading

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

William Van Hoorn
Central Garden & Pet

Chris Ravsten
Mountain States Oilseeds

Karen Burns
COSMED Group

Prem Grover
Pravesh Exports

Bill Meadows
Mountain States Oilseeds

John Mendel
I.S.I of Baltimore