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**Uplevel Dairy Podcast**

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 are after their next level of success. Join Uplevel Dairy host Peggy Coffeen each week as she sits down with the industry’s leading dairy producers and thought leaders for real conversations about business, management and leadership.

Latest Episodes:

115 | Smile and Say “Cheese”: HighGround Dairy May Monthly Market Update May 21, 2024

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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 insatiable appetite for milk protein concentrate

That’s what we are covering today with Curtis Bosma in the HighGround Dairy Monthly Market Insights.

Find out how the markets are moving and how it could impact your bottom line.

This Episode is Sponsored by HighGround Dairy

Grab your May Market Report Here: https://marketing.highgrounddairy.com/producer-market-update-may-2024

HighGround Dairy provides global dairy market intelligence, insurance services, futures & options brokerage, and advisory programs to a diverse range of dairy market participants throughout the supply chain.
Learn more at ⁠https://highgrounddairy.com/⁠ or email them at info@highgrounddairy.com
Information shared in this podcast is for educational purposes and is not a solicitation to buy or sell commodities. Opinions expressed are current opinions as of May 20, 2024 at 12 p.m. CST and only represent the views of the speaker and not those of HighGround Trading, unless otherwise expressly noted.

114 | How to Decode RNG Contracts for Dairy Farms May 16, 2024

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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 have been knocking on the doors of dairy farms across the country, touting opportunities, along with long-term commitments. And our guest today has been involved on both the developer side and dairy producer side.
Ty Rohloff, vice president of food and agribusiness with Compeer has reviewed at least 40 project proposals, and he joins us today to share his insights on:

The opportunities these projects can open up as an additional dairy farm income stream
How to evaluate both contracts and developers
And the details you won’t want to overlook when making decisions for the long-term success and sustainability of your dairy farm.

This episode is sponsored by Compeer Financial.
Compeer Financial is a member-owned Farm Credit cooperative serving and supporting agriculture and rural America. Their dairy team brings world-class expertise and tailored solutions to support dairy producers’ financial goals and lending needs.
For more information, contact:

Compeer Dairy Industry Experts
Dairy Industry Articles: Gain knowledge from subject matter experts
Navigating the Dairy Industry Today: On-Demand Webinar Series

Guest contact:
Ty Rohloff
608-290-7326
Ty.Rohloff@compeer.com

113 | H5N1: Red Flags, Risk Mitigation and Being Ready to Take Action May 14, 2024

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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 prepared to act with urgency.

And the opponent we are going to talk about today is the one that is on everyone’s mind: H5N1. If you want to hear from someone who has been helping dairies deal with this disease since the very beginning, what to watch for, ways to reduce risk and what to have in your arsenal to be ready to action should your dairy be facing the fight, keep on listening to this episode of the UPlevel Dairy Podcast.

From the frontlines of H5N1, Randy Tapia has been assisting dairy producers in the Southwest and now across the country, as they deal with the disease first hand, or are preparing themselves for the potential of sickness hitting their herds.

Randy grew up in the Texas dairy business, with his father at one point running 9,000 cows on three dairies near San Angelo, and he also spent many years as a dairy manager up in the Panhandle. An early adopter to rumination monitoring and other technologies, Randy stepped away from management to work in dairy tech before joining Amarillo-based Micro Technologies in the dairy solutions role he is in today.

In this conversation, I’ve asked Randy to put on his dairy manager hat, as he walks us through:

What to watch for: Rumination red flags
Reducing risk factors around waterers
Fast action to adjust the ration
Treatments and immune support

And Randy tells us how he would be preparing his team and what would be in his med room if he was a dairy manager right now.

This episode is sponsored by Micro Technologies

Micro Technologies innovates advanced, comprehensive & integrated technologies to help dairies produce a safe, wholesome product more efficiently and profitably.

Disclaimer draft:

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as medical advice. We are not responsible for any losses, damages, or liabilities that may arise from the use of this podcast.

For more information, visit:

Microtechnologies.com

112 | Celebrating Dairy Farm Moms: Strength, Sacrifice, and Sweetness with Karen Bohnert May 10, 2024

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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 episode.

Hear the incredible stories of the dairy farm moms who raised them, and the adversities they overcame to be examples of strength, sacrifice and resilience.

And hear about some of the dairy farm moms who have set the bar for Peggy and Karen today.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/111--Intentional-Motherhood--Management-and-What-Matters-Most-with-Sarah-Daugherty-e2je88q

111 | Intentional Motherhood, Management and What Matters Most with Sarah Daugherty May 09, 2024

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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 a high-performing work life and a high-performing family life.

From performance pressure to kids’ sports to setting priorities and saying no, any mom or dad who pursues excellence both at work and at home will relate and can grab a few nuggets of wisdom from this honest conversation about hard things and what really matters.

This one hit home for me, and I think it will do the same for you.
This episode is sponsored by Uplevel Dairy Podcast Founding Partner Adisseo, a global leader in nutritional solutions and premier provider of rumen-protected methionine for dairy producers who want to optimize milk production, capture more value from components, and maintain the health of their high-performing herds. Learn more at https://www.adisseo.com/en/

110 | 3 Human Resource Hacks to Take Control of Turnover Today May 07, 2024

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

And my guest today is a higher performer in deed: Sarah Daugherty, workforce development manager at Paramount Calves LLC, in Darlington, Wis.

Sarah is going to tell you how she has saved herself the time and stress of constantly training new employees and the drag and drama of hard conversations to experiencing very little turnover and creating systems that support Paramount’s high-performing teams, which include 50 employees across three sites in Wisconsin and Kansas, who care for 25,000+ replacement heifers.

And these 3 hacks you are about to hear aren’t fancy. In fact, all you need to do it yourself are a few pieces of paper. Keep listening to learn …

The simple exercise Sarah walked herself through that has crafted the core of the culture at Paramount Calves

The key benchmark she monitors for employee turnover

And the hack she created with just four sheets of paper that changed the game on retention.

If zero employee turnover and high performing teams is what you are striving for … I believe you will want to really take some tips from Sarah.

Bonus: And Sarah will join us again later this week to shift gears from management to motherhood. I’ve invited this mom of 6 back on for a special message for all the moms as we head into Mother’s Day!

This episode is sponsored by Uplevel Dairy Podcast Founding Partner Adisseo, a global leader in nutritional solutions and premier provider of rumen-protected methionine for dairy producers who want to optimize milk production, capture more value from components, and maintain the health of their high-performing herds. Learn more at https://www.adisseo.com/en/

109 | Young Leader with Ytsje Andringa May 02, 2024

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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 she shifted her career course from health care to follow her heart back to her family dairy farm, Sunrise Dairy in Clear Lake, South Dakota.

She’s the daughter of Dutch immigrants, oldest of 6 and a mother to 3.

This Young Leader will blow you away with her determination to do hard things and go after her dairy farming dreams every single day.

Hear about:

The challenges she faces as a young dairy producer dealing with salespeople and managing employees three times her age

The one skill set she believes she must develop to be successful as a dairy producer

And a few fun silage truck-driving stories

The Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast is the special podcast series for producers and professionals in the first 5 years of their dairy careers. Find it on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, as well as its own platform, Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.

108 | How This Dairy Manager Slayed the Time-Consuming Data Monster Apr 30, 2024

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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 keep listening because I’ve got something important that could change the game for you on this episode of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast.

Our guest understands these challenges because he was a dairy manager himself in Texas for well over a decade, who faced the same struggles: He wanted the right data, at his fingertips, integrated in a way that allowed him to use it as a tool to improve performance and move his dairy forward.

And so he created his own solution: Dairy Performance Network.

Manny Salcedo founded DPN seven years ago, and you are about to hear:

How Manny came up with his own solution for slaying that time-consuming data monster
The story behind this customized software integration and data analytics system that connects people, cows and technology
The results: Higher levels of employee engagement and hitting real performance benchmarks that make a difference to the dairy producer’s bottomline

Follow DPN

Contact DPN

806-639-5166
support@dpnconnect.com
www.dpnconnect.com

107 | How Good Can We Get? with Megan Schrupp, DVM, NexGen Dairy Apr 25, 2024

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“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 Megan Schrupp, DVM, at NexGen Dairy in Eden Valley, Minnesota, uses to push the potential for cows, people and her dairy farming business.
This 20-minute episode is the hot take from one of our most popular podcasts of all time, Episode #36: Full Potential Dairy Farming.
Megan details how this question drives:
- A culture of excellence among people
- Data-driven decision-making to enhance transition, nutrition and repro
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This episode is part of the High-Performance Mindset Series, powered by Nedap.
Listen to Episode 36 for the full conversation with Megan here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/6H45sTWc4Ib

106 | Dairy Farming on Three Continents with Young Leader Laurens Rutten Apr 23, 2024

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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 into dairy on three continents, starting on a commercial grass-based dairy in New Zealand, then the world’s largest robotic dairy in Chile, and we catch up with him today on the third leg of his journey at Sunnyside Farms in New York.

Laurens reveals the two critical questions he asked himself that spurred this adventure, and the lessons he is learning along the way and leaves us with some solid takeaways on blazing your own trail, defining your future and taking bold action.

The Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast is THE podcast series for producers and professionals in the first 5 years of their dairy careers. Find it on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, as well as its own platform, Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
Join the Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/792440762650346/

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