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global perspective Traveling the world for Merck, local woman remains rooted in family farm BY nancy mayfield eastern iowa farmer Growing up on a Bellevue cattle farm, Laurie Hueneke Martens was always fascinated by animal science. “When other kids were out playing, I was in an exploratory vet school class, performing an ultrasound on my New Zealand show rabbit or castrating a pet cat,” she said. Today she is executive director for global public policy and government relations for Merck & Co. Inc., a global firm headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey, and doing business in more than 140 countries. She develops domestic and international policy to give market access to Merck’s animal health products and to support market access for livestock, poultry, and companion animals that use them. The high-level executive job often requires global travel and regular trips to Washington, D.C., and New Jersey, but her home base is about as far from corporate America as you can get. Hueneke Martens lives with her husband, Jody, and their 5-year-old daughter, Mckenna, just outside St. Donatus on a farm overlooking rolling hills, lush fields, and timber just a stone’s throw from the Mississippi River. She and Jody own and operate Martens Angus Farms, which markets breeding bulls and heifers to commercial and purebred producers. With a young child, a family business, and a demanding corporate job, she juggles a lot of responsibilities and spends quite a bit of time on airplanes and working from American Airlines’ business lounges across the globe. “I’ve got more wings than I have roots,” she said. Take her schedule in June. She started off in Brussels, Belgium, leading a week-long workshop to grow her Europe public policy team; stopped in Cambridge (north of London) for a conference; spent another week at corporate offices in New Jersey; worked from home for a week; and then was off to Washington, D.C., to work on issues important to the animal health industry in trade agreements. She is home most weekends, and she works from home one week a month. How she came to have a job that combines animal science and policy has been years in the making. David Acker met Hueneke Martens in the late 1990s, when she was a freshman animal science and pre-veterinary major at Iowa State University, and he was director of the international agriculture program. Inspired by an exchange student from Thailand whom her 98 Eastern Iowa Farmer | fall 2017
Laurie Hueneke Martens and her daughter, Mckenna, survey their herd on Martens Angus Farm. Laurie helps husband Jody Martens with the operation when she is not travelling the globe for her animal health-related job with Merck & Co. Inc. Eastern Iowa Farmer Photo / Brooke Taylor fall 2017 | Eastern Iowa Farmer 99
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