NMPF’s Galen Closes Career, With a Message
From Dairy Defined by National Milk Producers Federation
December 15, 2025 · 23 min · Season 7 · Episode 11
About this episode
Chris Galen reflects on his nearly three decades in the dairy industry and discusses key challenges and reforms in milk pricing.
History may not rhyme, but it echoes, and for all the challenges dairy has faced, a few key areas have continued to resurface throughout Chris Galen’s nearly three decades in dairy. “A lot of what I had worked on at the start of my career, and also now in the last few years of my career at National Milk, has been on milk pricing, in particular federal milk marketing order reforms,” said Galen, NMPF’s longtime communications leader and the current Senior Vice President of Member Services and G...
People in this episode
Guest: Chris Galen
Topics covered
- dairy industry
- milk pricing
- federal milk marketing order reforms
- career reflection
- communications leadership
Keywords
- dairy
- milk pricing
- federal reforms
- National Milk Producers Federation
- career
- communications
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: National Milk Producers Federation
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