Uplevel Dairy Podcast

128 | Young Leader Bonney Shehadey: The Next Gen of Sustainability at Bar 20 Dairy

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in Ep. 123 of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, we visited with California dairyman Steve Shehadey, as he shared the innovations in renewable energy and...

127 | King Brothers Providing Quality from Herd to Home

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For going on five generations, the King family in New York has been known for dairy farming excellence as Kings-Ransom Farm. Just over a decade ago, t...

126 | Moving Volumes and Adding Value to Milk

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From retail to restaurants, dairy is finding its way into more menu options and consumer products than every before, and it’s not by accident. Behin...

125 | From Flatline to Finish-line; Marathons, Milk & Mindset

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Running the race of her life, Rachel Eslick was minutes away from achieving her dream of qualifying for the Boston Marathon. With a traumatic change i...

124 | How Milk is Winning New Consumers with Wellness

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Milk has a whole new story to tell. Eve Pollet, senior vice president of strategic intelligence at Dairy Managment Inc. (DMI)  joins us to share the ...

123 | Bar 20 Dairy Capturing the Power of Sustainability

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, for Steve Shehadey of Bar 20 Dairy, life gave his family cow manure, and with that they make energy. Fo...

122 | Jones Dairy Expands Consumer Connection

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jones Dairy near Spencer, Iowa, expanded their Jersey herd and built a 64-stall rotary parlor last year, they not only sought to optimize efficie...

121 | STtalks & Uplevel Dairy Introduce a Six Part Series to Celebrate June Dairy Month

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re celebrating June Dairy Month in a big way as STtalks and the Uplevel Dairy Podcast collaborate to bring you a 6-part series that shines a brig...

120 | Think Outside the Box: How to Cut Labor Costs and Max Out Milk in Automated Milking Systems

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you tuned in to hear Jessica Pralle-Trimner from Miltrim Farms talk about managing 30 robots under one roof on Ep. 118, you may recall her mention ...

119 | World Milk Day with Dairy Discovery at Swisslane Farms

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special bonus episode of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, we are raising a glass to World Milk Day by appreciating the hard work of dairy farmers gl...

118 | 30 Robots Under One Roof: Right Data, Right Cows, Right Time

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever wish you had a 24-hour herdsperson, who never showed up late, never complained and could pick up on a problem with a cow before you could?...

117 | Jerome Meyer: Fighting Cancer, Finding Purpose and the Power of a Positive Mindset

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone has two lives. The second one starts when you realize you only have one. A positive mindset is easy, when things in our lives our easy. But w...

116 | Mastering a Marathon Mindset with Clare Alderink

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back on Episode 100, Clare Alderink, manager at Ryzebol Dairy in Michigan, joined Tommy Oesch from Swiss Lane Farms to talk about doing hard things, l...

115 | Smile and Say “Cheese”: HighGround Dairy May Monthly Market Update

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got market movements to celebrate this May: Largest-ever cheese export month for the U.S. Potential for record-high butter this year The...

114 | How to Decode RNG Contracts for Dairy Farms

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you have been waiting to sign on the dotted line for a renewable natural gas project, this episode is for you.Over the past 4 years, RNG companies ...

113 | H5N1: Red Flags, Risk Mitigation and Being Ready to Take Action

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Know your opponent. I’ve heard this statement from dairy producers before. It’s all about evaluating a threat at hand, managing the risk and being...

112 | Celebrating Dairy Farm Moms: Strength, Sacrifice, and Sweetness with Karen Bohnert

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Bohnert, editor of Dairy Herd Management and Milk Business, joins host Peggy Coffeen to celebrate dairy farm moms in this bonus Mother’s Day e...

111 | Intentional Motherhood, Management and What Matters Most with Sarah Daugherty

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we come up on Mother’s Day this weekend, I’ve asked Sarah Daugherty from Paramount Calves back to talk about being a mother of 6, and balancing...

110 | 3 Human Resource Hacks to Take Control of Turnover Today

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you are spending way too much time on hiring new employees, training and retraining, only to keep experiencing the exhaustion of turnover, this epi...

109 | Young Leader with Ytsje Andringa

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Young Leader Ytsje Andringa, a driven woman whose path seems to always lead her back to the driver’s seat of a silage truck. Ytsje shares how s...

108 | How This Dairy Manager Slayed the Time-Consuming Data Monster

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If data has turned into the time-consuming monster that is stealing your focus, delaying decisions and dragging down your progress, you will want to k...

107 | How Good Can We Get? with Megan Schrupp, DVM, NexGen Dairy

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“How good can we get?” ​That’s a question high-performers ask themselves and the teams they lead every single day.It’s also a question Mega...

106 | Dairy Farming on Three Continents with Young Leader Laurens Rutten

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the 28-year-old from Belgium who has embarked on a hands-on dairy farming journey around the globe.... Laurens Rutten challenged himself to dive ...

105 | U.S. Milk Production + Feed Cost Predictions: HighGround Dairy April Monthly Market Update

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the US milk supply tightens, what opportunities and challenges are ahead for Class 3 and 4, as domestic demand lowers and exports pick up? Corn pla...

104 | 7 Secrets to Employee Retention Success

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve sat down with some pretty incredible people in the dairy industry. The owners and managers of excellent dairies a...

103 | Young Leader Takeover at the Midwest Dairy Challenge!

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast, I’m turning the mic over to a trio of up-and-comers in dairy industry communications to interview three...

102 | From Bleeding $500,000 to Better than Breaking Even

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t just their dairy farm on the line. It was their house too.  Pauly Paul from Complete Management Consulting is back to tell us how he help...

101 | Mental Toughness: The 75-Day Transformation

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No alcohol, 2-a-day workouts, following a diet, daily personal development reading and drinking a gallon of water … every day for 75 days. That’s ...

100 | 4 Miles, Every 4 Hours for 48 Hours with Tommy Oesch, Swisslane Farms and Clare Alderink, Ryzebol Dairy

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, Michigan dairyman Tommy Oesch from Swisslane Farms, told us right here on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast that he planned to complete David Goggi...

99 | How a Texas Dairy Beats the Heat to Hit 55% Conception Rate

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to central Texas, where summer days exceed 100 degrees and heat stress is one of the greatest threats to cow health, reproduction and performa...

98 | Soybeans are Getting Crushed, Texas Dairy Cows Under the Weather: HighGround Dairy March Monthly Market Update

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We catch up with Curtis Bosma, vice president of producer services for HighGround Dairy, to hear about: Soybeans: All-time high crush capacity and l...

97 | Women Leading the Way at Pagel Family Businesses: Empowering People with Ashley Pagel

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the final episode in this series with the women who are leading the way at Pagel Family Businesses, in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, we sit down with Ashley...

96 | Women Leading the Way at Pagel Family Businesses: Sharing Dairy’s Story with Chase Pagel

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We continue this 3-part series with the women who are leading the way at Pagel Family Businesses, in Kewaunee, Wisconsin.  Today, Chase Pagel debuts ...

95 | Women Leading the Way at Pagel Family Businesses: From Grief to Growth with Jamie Pagel Witcpalek

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we bring you a 3-part series, as we celebrate the month of March: the month of women’s history, international women’s day, as well as N...

94 | 3 Things the Top 10% of Dairy Producers Do

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the UpLevel Dairy Podcast, host Peggy Coffeen welcomes back guest Leland Kootstra, an accountant well-versed in the dairy farming b...

93 | How to Pass On a Multi-million Dollar Dairy Farming Business: 3 Critical Questions for Succession Success with Leland Kootstra

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the UpLevel Dairy podcast, host Peggy Coffeen interviews Leland Kootstra, an accountant with Frazer, LLP, about the importance of s...

92 | Pursuing Greatness with Hans Nederend - Part 2: Perseverance and Living on Purpose

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hans Nederend isn’t only committed to producing high-quality milk on his dairies. He’s also committed to living a high-quality life. Whether it’...

92 | Pursuing Greatness with Hans Nederend - Part 1: Secrets to World-class Milk Quality

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to maintain milk quality at a level of less than 75,000 SCC on 9,000 cows for 15 consecutive years? You might be surprised. We are...

91 | WonderCow: A California Dairy Family’s Faith-filled Journey to Create a Superfood Supplement

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Peggy sits down with a seventh-generation dairy family, Rob and Erica Diepersloot, from Madera, California, as they share their story...

90 | Young Leader Madison Busse, United Dairies, Alexandria, Minnesota

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

She manages 15 employees, 1,200 baby calves and 700 maternity cows … and she’s just 24 years old. Our Uplevel Dairy Young Leader today is Madison ...

89 | Record-Low Heifer Inventories, Record-High Credit Card Debt and New Crop Projections: HighGround Dairy February Monthly Market Update

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s big question: With heifer inventories at historic lows and global milk production trending lower in 2024, we seem to be poised for better mi...

88 | 3 Steps to Set Up Middle Managers for Success + the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association Annual Meeting with Clint Al-Ag

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Peggy sits down with Clint Al-Ag, president of the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA) Board of Directors, and manager with Blue...

87 | Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders featuring Emily Shaw Schaapman, Dairy Girl Fitness

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And our featured Young Leader today is Emily Shaw Schaapmann, also known as the Dairy Girl Fitness, shares the career journey that led her to starting...

86 | Join Us for the Premier Dairy Event of the High Plains: 2024 High Plains Dairy Conference

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's been keeping you up at night? Is your mind turning about how to create alternative revenue streams, monetizing more than milk from your dai...

85 | 3 Keys to Maximize Profit and ROI from Your People

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Any dairy producer will tell you, a good employee is worth every dollar. But every two weeks, when pay day comes around, do you ever wonder if you are...

84 | Precision Nutrition and Sustainable Dairy Production: A Conversation with Dr. Mike Van Amburgh

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peggy Coffeen sits down to chat with Dr. Mike Van Amburgh, Cornell University, at the Adisseo VIP Dairy Seminar about the benefits of precision dairy ...

83 | Understanding Dairy Sustainability: Discussion with Dr. Marissa Hake

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A big question we ask ourselves as dairy producers and professionals is, how can we effectively communicate with consumers about the food we produce a...

82 | The Revolution of Dairy Cattle Nutrition: Amino Acids with Dr. Chuck Schwab

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peggy sits down with Dr. Chuck Schwab, a distinguished Professor Emeritus from New Hampshire University, at the Adisseo VIP Dairy Seminar, where he re...

81 | How to Turn Your Passion for Dairy Promotions into a Professional Career

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you are passionate about sharing dairy’s story with consumers and want to know how to turn that into a career, keep listening to hear how Allison...

80 | Dairy Farming with a $15 Breakeven

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is a $15 breakeven possible for a dairy farming business in 2024, given increases in input costs and inflation, and the current milk market conditions...

79 | HighGround Dairy January Monthly Market Update

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s big question: What if you knew, with 100% certainty, that the milk price would plummet $5 per hundred weight in the next few months … what...

78 | Meet Our Monthly Dairy Markets Insider: Curtis Bosma, HighGround Dairy

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got an exciting new addition to the Uplevel Dairy Podcast … a monthly market update to empower you to make informed decisions for your dairy...

77 | Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders featuring Alex Gambonini, HighGround Dairy

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And our featured Young Leader today is as dedicated to dairy as they come, Alex Gambonini. Raised on an organic California dairy farm, Alex not only g...

76 | Multi-Site Dairy Management: Purchase, lease or let it pass by? with Curtis Gerrits, Compeer Financial

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before you take on that second dairy site, there are four key areas to consider that can make or break the long-term viability and profitability of th...

75 | Conversando con Líderes Lecheros (Conversations with Dairy Leaders) - Juan Quezada, Milk Source, y Elsie Gonzalez Leach, Motiva Dairy Consulting

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

La presentadora invitada Elsie González Leach de Motiva Dairy Consulting se sienta con Juan Quezada de Milk Source para hablar sobre su trayectoria p...

74 | 5 Principles of Leadership with Juan Quezada, Director of Training and Development, Milk Source LLC

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have some exciting things coming your way on the next episode of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast … an episode in Spanish is coming soon! But first, on...

73 | The Power of One Word featuring Katie DiGangi, Zoetis/Darlington Ridge Farms

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, friends, for more in this special series we are dropping each day this week on Uplevel Dairy - catching up with our guests from last yea...

72 | The Power of One Word featuring Tera Baker, Nedap

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, friends, for more in this special series we are dropping each day this week on Uplevel Dairy - catching up with our guests from last yea...

71 | The Power of One Word featuring Jared Yousey, Sunnyside Farms

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are kicking off 2024 with a series each day this week, revisiting our guests from last year who shared their "one word" for 2023. We are ...

70 | The Power of One Word featuring Jessica Pralle Trimner, Miltrim Farms

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, we are continuing to kick off 2024 with a series each day this week, revisiting our guests from last year who share...

The Power of One Word featuring Eliza Ruzic, Zinpro

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, we are kicking off 2024 with a series each day this week, revisiting our guests from last year who shared their &qu...

68 | The Power of One Word Featuring Travis Speirs, Shiloh Dairy

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, we are kicking off 2024 with a series each day this week, revisiting our guests from last year who shared their &qu...

67 | 6 Dairy Leaders Share their Word of the Year from 2023

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One year ago, I sat down with six dairy leaders who all chose one word to live by for 2023. Some were dairy owners, others managers, and a couple of f...

66 | Starting a Dairy Farm with $20,000 with Paul Windemuller, Dream Winds Dairy, Coopersville, Michigan

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some say it's impossible to start a dairy farm from scratch these days, but 9 years ago, Michigan dairyman Paul Windemuller did it  ... with just...

65 | Uplevel Dairy Young Leader: Michael Neves

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our featured Uplevel Dairy Young Leader today is Michael Neves. He joins us from California, though he has a network in the dairy community that reach...

64 | Uplevel Dairy’s Top 5 Business and Leadership Resources

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Looking for a quick list of great business and leadership books, videos and podcasts? Uplevel Dairy Podcast owner and host Peggy Coffeen shares her “...

63 | The One Question the Most Progressive Dairy Managers are Asking with Elsie Gonzalez-Leach

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if there was just one question you could ask in the interview process to identify your next best, long-term employee? What if asking that one que...

62 | How to Shave Hours off of Milking Shifts with Elsie Gonzalez-Leach

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you are pulling your hair out because your milking parlor is constantly running behind schedule ... the 7-hour shift is stretching out to 9 hours, ...

61 | Empowering Mid-level Managers, Cell Phone Policies and Team-Building Activities with Bridget Schilling, Schilling Farms

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Empowering middle managers to be leaders, employee cell phone protocols and bringing team building to the dairies. That's what we are hitting up t...

60 | Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders featuring Taylor Zeltwanger, NutraDrip

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our featured Uplevel Dairy Young Leader is Taylor Zeltwanger. He joins us from Morris, Minnesota, where he resides with his wife. This 2020 South Dako...

59 | Protecting His Price and Minimizing Risk with Nathan Moroney, Del Rio Dairy

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Texas dairyman Nathan Moroney talked about using technology to make managing 8,000 cows at Del Rio Dairy easier and more efficient on Ep. 58, and toda...

58 | Dairy Tech in Texas: Managing 8,000 Cows with Activity Monitors featuring Nathan Moroney, Del Rio Dairy

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the big challenges that comes up for dairy farm owners and managers as they grow and scale is this: Should you invest more heavily in highly-sk...

Gratitude: The Secret Performance Hack

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do gratitude and thanksgiving have to do with you and your drive to reach your next level of performance as a dairy producer or professional? Per...

56 | Introducing the new Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast, featuring Kiley Pagel, Pagel Family Businesses

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Uplevel Dairy Podcast is expanding to include a second bi-weekly podcast, the Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast! This is for producers and profe...

55 | Finding Balance with a Big Vision - Part 2: Health, Relationships and Accountability with Tommy Oesch, Swiss Lane Farms

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Breaking the stronghold of alcohol, finding time for friends and getting honest with yourself… we’re going there today in the second part of this ...

54 | Finding Balance with a Big Vision - Part 1: Faith, Family and Dairy Farming with Tommy Oesch, Swiss Lane Farms

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve got big goals and a big vision for your dairy and your business, you know that it takes incredible focus and hard work, but what you may a...

53 | Multi-Site Dairy Management: Getting a New Team On Board with Bridget Schilling, Schilling Farms

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If buying or leasing a turn-key dairy at another location is part of your business strategy, this episode is for you.   The real question is this: Ho...

52 | Leading to Win with Jim Ostrom, President/CEO and Founding Partner of Milk Source

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve got a special gift for you, Uplevel Dairy leaders! It is 10 minutes of straight talk on leadership and culture, directly from one of the greate...

51 | Creating a MOO'V-ment with his own Milk Featuring TJ Tuls, Founder of DARI LLC

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you are a dairy producer who has been thinking about taking your milk all the way to the dairy case yourself, this episode is for you. Vertical int...

50 | 9 Years Without a No-Call, No-Show Employee with Brett Barlass

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You may already be doing annual employee reviews … but are you actually using them to drive employee engagement?   And maybe you hold monthly emplo...

49 | The Eight Questions that Will Move Your Dairy Farm Forward, A Panel Featuring Three NMPF Young Cooperator Members

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to be successful and confident in the decisions you are making in the dairy business, there is one tool I want to share with you today tha...

48 | The Mindset of a High-Performing Manager with Scott Blevins

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another "Best of Uplevel Dairy" feature! This week I sat down with Scott Blevins to dive into what it takes to have the mindset o...

#47 | How to Create a Zero Employee Turnover Culture at Rosendale Dairy with Jared Dueppengiesser

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Best of Uplevel Dairy Season 1! In this episode, I am chatting with Jared Dueppengiesser, herd manager of Milk Source's Rosendale D...

Saving a 1,500-Cow Dairy Farm from Foreclosure with Pauly Paul, Complete Management Consulting

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are talking about a 1,500-cow dairy that was on the verge of selling out - but not on their own terms. The farm had not made money in 3 yea...

#45: Your Milk Check and the Global Markets with Mary Keough Ledman

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What's happening halfway around the world in the global marketplace that can impact your milk check in this final quarter of 2023? ​​On today...

#44 - 4 High-Impact Actions to Create a Winning Farm Culture - Travis Speirs

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Culture. It’s how your employees feel in the pit of their stomach on Sunday night about coming in to work for you on Monday morning. On a recent v...

#42 - The Million-Cow Multiplier: Unselfish Leadership and Exponential Impact - Matt Budine

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From co-founding a company that feeds more than 1.1 million cows all over the world with Progressive Dairy Solutions, to feeding people and providing ...

#41 - The 7 Secrets to Setting Goals and Achieving Them - Katy Schultz and Elizabeth DeVries

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe it’s to get healthier. Maybe it’s to start a business. But you are stuck. You have not taken action on it because you “don’t have time”...

#40 - Growing and Scaling the Leadership Team - GPS Dairy Consultant Robb Bender and Steve Abel from Abel Dairy

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to not only grow a dairy farm from 1,800 cows to 4,200 cows, and not just scale the operation, but scale the leadership team? To hel...

#39 - How a California Dairy Producer is Milking More Cows with Less Skilled Labor - Brandon Mendosa

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can a dairy rely less on skilled labor? Is it possible to even eliminate some positions? And to do so while actually improving cow care and milk q...

#38 - How to have Hard Conversations with Underperforming Team Members - Kristy Pagel

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you been avoiding a conversation you know you need to have with an underperforming team member? Is their attitude impacting the rest of the team,...

#36 - Full-Potential Dairy Farming: Reaching the next level of performance for cows and people with technology - Megan Schrupp

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“How good can we get?” If you are a high-performer who asks yourself that same question every single day, you will want to hear what Megan Schrupp...

#35 - The 7,000 Cows in Seven Years Vision - Tom Oesch

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Four years ago, dairy farmer Tom Oesch and his partners at Swiss Lane Farms in Michigan defined their vision: To grow to 7,000 cows in seven years. Fi...

#34 - Entrepreneurship, Visionary Leadership and Dairy Cares of Wisconsin - Jim Ostrom

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Peggy Coffeen joins Jim Ostrom from Milk Source in his gardens for an exclusive interview with one of the most incredible visionary leaders in dairy f...

#32 - 5 Questions for Finding Your Freedom - Amy Throndsen

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is for the dairy farmer or dairy professional who owns a business or is just wired to work as if they owned their business. If you ever f...

#31 - 5 Habits of High-Performing Dairy Farm Managers

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For the past 6 months, you’ve been listening to conversations with incredible dairy farm owners and managers who are finding ways to lower their tur...

#30 - How to Optimize Your Time and Your Team - Sonya Koke

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you running your dairy farm, or is your dairy farm running you? Dairy farmer and mother of 6, Sonya Koke from Blue Jay Dairy and Blue Bonnet Dairy...

#29 - Making Farming with Family Fun Again - Troy Nelson and Kayla Burr

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kansas farmers and cattle producers Troy Nelson and Kayla Burr of TDN Farms join us with their family business advisor, Jay Joy from Bridgeforth LLP, ...

#28 - Dairy Farm Employee Housing Takes Turnover to less than 1% - Sandy Larson

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Providing housing options for employees at Larson Acres has taken the turnover rate from an already low 7% all the way down to less than 1 percent. Ge...

#27 - Managing more cows, more people and more data - Derrick Josi

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you are thinking about adding technology to your dairy, you know you will get straight talk from TDF Honest Farming’s Derrick Josi, from Wilsonvi...