Uplevel Dairy Podcast
Episodes
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...
#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 ...