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Symposium: Selecting a Career in the Dairy Industry

Careers in Dairy Industry's Foreign Field

Dairy and Poultry Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, Washington, D.C.

ABSTRACT

Last May 17, President Kennedy was in Ottawa, Canada; Vice-President Johnson was in Bangkok, Thailand; and Secretary of State Rusk was in Geneva, Switzerland. On this single day our three highest-ranking government officials were in widely separated foreign countries located on three continents.

How does this information relate to selecting a career in the dairy industry? I think it illustrates several important things which will affect your careers, inescapably, regardless of whether you remain right in your own back yards or locate in the remote foothills of some far-off outpost halfway around the world.

The importance of foreign service—its relatively new importance, too—is reflected by the fact that it takes our three top leaders of this nation outside of the United States on the same day!

Distances have been reduced by the almost unbelievably accelerated time in which communication and travel can now be accomplished. Despite the distances that separated our top governmental executives last May 17, they were less than 24 hr. apart in terms of time, and only minutes apart on the basis of speaking to each other.