THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY POWER  OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that DAVID J. WEST, President, Big
Heart Pet Food and Snacks, of The J. M. Smucker Company (the
"Company"), hereby appoints Timothy P. Smucker, Richard K. Smucker,
and Jeannette L. Knudsen, and each of them, with full power of
substitution, as attorneys or attorney of the undersigned, to sign
and to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, all pursuant to applicable legal provisions, with
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents
and purposes as the undersigned officer might or could do in
person, in furtherance of the foregoing. The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at
the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company
assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
Section  16 of  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with
respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys
-in-fact.





/David J. West/



Date:    March 23 , 2015