[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3439]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   HONORING DR. ALOIS KERTZ FOR RECEIVING THE MISSOURI DAIRY HALL OF 
                   HONORS' MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

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                        HON. BLAINE LUETKEMEYER

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 2, 2017

  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Alois Kertz 
on receiving the Missouri Dairy Hall of Honors' Meritorious Service 
Award.
  Dr. Alois Kertz was born and raised in Bloomsdale, Missouri as one of 
six children to Andrew and Mathilda Kertz. He became passionate about 
the dairy industry through his time growing up on the family dairy 
farm. Dr. Kertz would go on to graduate from the University of Missouri 
with a bachelor's degree in Dairy Husbandry in 1967 and a master's 
degree in Dairy Cattle Nutrition in 1968. He then earned a Ph.D. in 
Animal Nutrition from Cornell University in 1973. Between earning his 
master's degree and his Ph.D, Dr. Kertz faithfully served in the United 
States Army as a Nutrition Research Officer in Natick, Massachusetts 
and then as a Platoon Leader/Food Supply Manager in Thailand during the 
Vietnam War. He earned the Army Commendation Medal for Meritorious 
Service in 1969 through 1970 for his dedicated service to our country.
  From 1973 to 1975, Dr. Kertz was employed as a dairy nutritionist at 
Ralston Purina Company. He then worked for Purina Mills as the manager 
of dairy and ruminant research from 1975 until 1991, at which point, 
Dr. Kertz became the director of dairy applied research, nutritional 
consulting program, and technical services at Purina Mills. Dr. Kertz 
founded ANDHIL, LLC in 2001 as a tribute to his father's dairy herd 
through which, Dr. Kertz advises clientele from a variety of private 
companies, agencies, research institutions, dairy organizations, and 
publications. Throughout the years, Dr. Kertz has also traveled the 
world to places like Spain, Italy, South Korea, and Brazil to serve as 
an on-farm consultant and trainer. In the process of those travels he 
has become a world renowned leader and researcher in the dairy 
industry.
  Dr. Kertz's work has been published in over thirty scientific journal 
articles. Additionally, he has written numerous articles and has 
presented to dairy producer groups here in the United States and around 
the world. He is an active member of the American Dairy Science 
Association, American Society of Animal Science, American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Nutrition, Dairy 
Calf and Heifer Association, the American Registry of Professional 
Animal Scientists, and serves as a charter member/diplomat of the 
American College of Animal Nutrition. Recently, Dr. Kertz's expertise 
has been utilized by the Masaka Diocese in Uganda to start a dairy cow 
program that is designed to help families in their community get out of 
poverty.
  Dr. Kertz's lovely wife Molly and their four children, Julia, Emily, 
Nicholas, and Mary are thrilled that his years of hard work are being 
rewarded with this well-deserved honor. Dr. Kertz has always been known 
as an incredibly faithful, patient, and generous man. He is a devout 
Christian and active in the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Mary Queen 
of Peace Parish in Webster Groves, Missouri.
  I ask you to join me in recognizing Dr. Alois Kertz on this well-
deserved award that honors his lifetime of service to the dairy 
industry.

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