Uplevel Dairy Podcast
Episodes
#26 - How to Increase Dairy Farm Income and Reduce Expenses - Pauly Paul
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Borrowing money to pay the bills? This dairy farm was in the red before Pauly Paul and his team came into the picture. Six years later, they’ve got ...
#24 - Unexpected Detours and Doing What Makes You Happy - Annaliese Wegner and Liz Griffith
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may know Annaliese Wagner as the Modern Day Farm Chick on Instagram, and perhaps you also know dairy consultant Liz Griffith, the OG ag-vocate who...
#23 - Biogas: From Start to Startup - Brent Lilienthal
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are talking about biogas, from start to start up, and hearing the story of a farmers-first bioenergy company and the steps in the process for turni...
#22 - Coming Back to the Family Business - Reese Burnett
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two-thirds of the 9,000 dairy cows in Wyoming are milked on a 110-stall rotary at Burnett Dairy, located about an hour from Greeley, Colorado. Owned b...
#21 - Choosing the right RNG partner for your dairy farm
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If one of the most critical decisions on your mind right now is whether to sign onto an RNG project or take your carbon credits to the grave for your ...
#20 - 9 Years Without a No-Call, No-Show Employee - Brett Barlass
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As a dairy manager for 15 years at Yosemite Jerseys in Hilmar, California, Brett Barlass found ways to engage and motivate a team of employees to want...
#18 - The Team Meeting Format That Drives Employee Performance - Christine Bender
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you manage a dairy operation, you know how frustrating it can be to manage and motivate a team. But what if there was one powerful action you coul...
#16 - Success Factors: Switching from sand bedding to dry manure solids and bringing in a non-family business partner - Jeremy Natzke
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you are looking for ways to better manage dried manure solids for bedding, or what it could look like to bring a non-family partner into your dairy...
#15 - How to Uplevel Your Dairy’s Human Resources Department - Michelle Shambeau
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can a dairy operation uplevel their human resources department to go beyond payroll and compliance? Michelle Shambeau, human resources manager at ...
#14 - Bringing Bankrupt Dairies Back in the Black - Pauly Paul
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
No feed. No money. And most would say, no hope. But Pauly Paul always finds a way to flip a dairy farm from foreclosure to a positive cash flow. In th...
#12 - Straight Talk on Dairy Sustainability - Tara Vander Dussen
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Vander Dussen is one of dairy’s strongest voices for environmental sustainability, but in today’s episode, we go bigger and broader to talk a...
#11 - Olympic-level Business, Management & Mindset - Elle Purrier-St. Pierre and Jamie St. Pierre
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the High-Performance Mindset Series, powered by Nedap, we visit with U.S. Olympic runner Elle Purrier-St. Pierre and her husb...
#10 - How Rolinda Dairy Leverages Robotic Technology to be More Productive, Profitable and Efficient - Pat Reisinger, Sam Schwartz and John Gerbitz
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How is robotic milking technology serving as a true business accelerator for Rolinda Dairy in Waterville, Iowa? Find out how this 900-cow dairy is cap...
#08 - Give your employees C.R.A.P: the success formula for building employee loyalty - Jeff Kortes, Jared Dueppengiesser and Jessi Schoofs
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you listened to Episode 1 of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, you may recall our guest, Jared Dueppengiesser, the impressive young manager at Milk Source...
#07 - The one word that will change your life in 2023
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could sum up your goals and dreams of who you want to be and what you want to accomplish in 2023 in just one word? Hear from a mix of dair...
It’s time to unwrap your gifts
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A faith-filled message from Uplevel Dairy Podcast host and founder Peggy Coffeen on three very special gifts you get to unwrap during this Christmas s...
#05 - From milker to manager: How to identify and empower high-potential - Daniel “Omar” Guerrero
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel “Omar” Guerrero knows his next top manager may be milking cows in the parlor right now. After all, that’s where he got his start. Now, 25...
#04 - The Mindset of a High-Performing Manager - Scott Blevins
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dairy manager Scott Blevins shares the habits, routines and principles that build his resilience and endurance to stay on top of his game while managi...
#02 - The Two Words that Will Get Employees to Care Today - Tom Wall
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if there was something simple you could do today that would build loyalty, get your employees to care about their work and make them want to stay...
#01 - Zero employee turnover, how this herd manager does it at Rosendale Dairy - Jared Dueppengiesser
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Dueppengiesser has worked his way up through the Milk Source organization, from a herdsman to now manager of Rosendale Dairy. He leads a team of...
Welcome to the Uplevel Dairy Podcast
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to be a successful, profitable and competitive dairy farm business? This is the podcast for dairy owners, managers and advisors who ...