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105 | U.S. Milk Production + Feed Cost Predictions: HighGround Dairy April Monthly Market Update Apr 18, 2024

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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 planters are starting to roll across the countryside, how might the early planting predictions impact your feed cost?

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.

Grab Your April Market Report Here: https://marketing.highgrounddairy.com/producer-market-update-april-2024

About HighGround Dairy

This episode is brought to you by 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 April 17, 2024 at 11 a.m. CST and only represent the views of the speaker and not those of HighGround Trading, unless otherwise expressly noted.

104 | 7 Secrets to Employee Retention Success Apr 16, 2024

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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 and some of the most sought-after consultants who specialize in employee performance, training, and retention.

Many of these are conversations you’ve heard on the UPlevel Dairy Podcast, and you can certainly go back and listen to them all, but if you really just want some cliff notes, some common themes, and take-home points that tie together several of the best conversations we’ve had here on the topic of getting a new employee off the best start, so they can perform well for you, see a path for their own future by being part of your team for the long haul, that’s what you are going to get today on the UPlevel Dairy Podcast.

My goal is to make it easy for you by pulling together some powerful shares from seven recent guests - some of the industry’s best owners, managers, and consultants. We are going to walk through three critical phases of employee retention, starting with:

First, onboarding
Next, uncovering individual potential
And finally, motivation - giving good people a reason to stay.

I’m giving you some high-value nuggets from these recent Uplevel Dairy guests so you can raise your own bar own employee retention.

Listen to the episodes of the ones mentioned on today's show below.

85 | 3 Keys to Maximize Profit and ROI from Your People: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/vdFC7gRqPIb
97 | Empowering People: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/97--Women-Leading-the-Way-at-Pagel-Family-Businesses-Empowering-People-with-Ashley-Pagel-e2h3ng0
61 | Empowering Mid-level Managers, Cell Phone Policies & Team-Building Activities: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/61--Empowering-Mid-level-Managers--Cell-Phone-Policies-and-Team-Building-Activities-with-Bridget-Schilling--Schilling-Farms-e2ctl74
63 | One Question Most Progressive Dairy Managers are Asking: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/63--The-One-Question-the-Most-Progressive-Dairy-Managers-are-Asking-with-Elsie-Gonzalez-Leach-e2d7bgm
88 | 3 Steps to Set Up Middle Managers for Success: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/88--3-Steps-to-Set-Up-Middle-Managers-for-Success--the-Dairy-Calf-and-Heifer-Association-Annual-Meeting-with-Clint-Al-Ag-e2ftu22
92 | Pursuing Greatness: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/92--Pursuing-Greatness-with-Hans-Nederend---Part-1-Secrets-to-World-class-Milk-Quality-e2gl916
74 | 5 Principles of Leadership: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upleveldairy/episodes/74--5-Principles-of-Leadership-with-Juan-Quezada--Director-of-Training-and-Development--Milk-Source-LLC-e2e6a9u

103 | Young Leader Takeover at the Midwest Dairy Challenge! Apr 11, 2024

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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 Dairy Challenge alumni who shared their experiences on a panel at the Midwest Dairy Challenge held in Green Bay, Wis., in February.

Social media interns interview Dairy Challenge alumni:

Nichole Gerard, Iowa State University student, interviews Crystal Prom, Cargill
Torri Burch, Iowa State University student, interviews Tony Schmitz, Schmitz’s East Branch Dairy

Irene Nielsen, Iowa State University student, interviews Liz Schiebelbein, Phibro Animal Health

Torri and Irene talk about their Dairy Challenge experiences, as past competitors and social media interns

Learn more about the Dairy Challenge:

https://www.dairychallenge.org/

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.

102 | From Bleeding $500,000 to Better than Breaking Even Apr 09, 2024

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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 helped one dairy family on the verge of losing it all turn around from bleeding red to a positive cash flow in 6 months.

Not only were they able to keep the farm and the house, but today, it is a financially sound business in the process of transitioning to the next generation.

Find out how Pauly and his team:

Lowered their breakeven
Reorganized labor
Brought them back from a $500,000 loss to breaking even or better in 6 months

This Episode is Sponsored by Complete Management Consulting

Contact Pauly Paul
- www.CompleteManagementConsulting.com
- completemanagementconsulting@gmail.com
- 920-418-3135

101 | Mental Toughness: The 75-Day Transformation Apr 04, 2024

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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 75 Hard, a transformative commitment for building mental toughness and self discipline, and these two Michigan dairymen just completed it, alongside the 4x4x48 endurance challenge from Episode 100.

Tommy Oesch from Swisslane Farms and Clare Alderink from Ryzebol Dairy are back to dish it out on what they did, what they read and how 75 Hard transformed their habits and their mindsets.

Hear more from Tommy Oesch on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast

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/

100 | 4 Miles, Every 4 Hours for 48 Hours with Tommy Oesch, Swisslane Farms and Clare Alderink, Ryzebol Dairy Apr 02, 2024

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Last year, Michigan dairyman Tommy Oesch from Swisslane Farms, told us right here on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast that he planned to complete David Goggins’ extreme 4x4x48 endurance challenge: That’s running 4 miles, every 4 hours for 48 hours.

Today, Tommy is back and he brought his friend Clare Alderink, general manager at Ryzebol Dairy, to talk about the grueling physical and mental challenge they completed in March, and the surprising ways it’s made them better as dairymen, family men and friends.

This episode is all about mindset:

Self discipline
Developing habits
Doing hard things

If you are pushing for your next level of performance, I promise, this episode drops some real life wisdom and will leave you with a new vision of what’s possible for you too!

Here more from Tommy Oesch on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast:

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 here: Adisseo.com

99 | How a Texas Dairy Beats the Heat to Hit 55% Conception Rate Mar 28, 2024

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

But since adding monitoring technology to their 1,250-cow herd last year, dairyman Hidde Osinga from Overwhere Dairy is using collar-collected data to:

Find and treat compromised cows sooner
Catch silent heats
Capture 15 percentage points on conception rate

Find out how his team has learned to trust the system, and hear about Hidde’s excitement for the future of dairying in this episode, part of the High-Performance Mindset Series, powered by Nedap.

Nedap is future-proofing dairy farms by revolutionizing cow-side care through technologies in activity monitoring, cow locating, milk metering and identification.

Find more episodes in Nedap’s High-Performance Mindset Series here:

98 | Soybeans are Getting Crushed, Texas Dairy Cows Under the Weather: HighGround Dairy March Monthly Market Update Mar 26, 2024

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We catch up with Curtis Bosma, vice president of producer services for HighGround Dairy, to hear about:

Soybeans: All-time high crush capacity and largest carry in more than 15 years
Managed money short covering corn and beans
Domestic cheese demand slips while butter takes off
Why are Texas dairy cows under the weather?

Learn more and find market resources at https://highgrounddairy.com/
This episode is brought to you by: 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.
Please note: 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 March 18, 2024, 12 p.m., and only represent the views of the speaker and not those of HighGround Trading, unless otherwise expressly noted.

97 | Women Leading the Way at Pagel Family Businesses: Empowering People with Ashley Pagel Mar 21, 2024

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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 Pagel, human resources manager.

Find out:

Ashley’s transition from a career in health care to heading up human resources
How she has professionalized processes and paperwork
Improving employee retention

Compeer Financial is a member-owned Farm Credit cooperative serving and supporting agriculture and rural America. Our dairy team brings world-class expertise and tailored solutions to support dairy producers’ financial goals and lending needs.
For more information, contact the Compeer Dairy Industry Experts .

96 | Women Leading the Way at Pagel Family Businesses: Sharing Dairy’s Story with Chase Pagel Mar 20, 2024

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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 her new children’s book, Rosco’s Sweet Treats, a story that not only depicts modern dairy farming, but also a real-life tale of a steer raised by her daughter that had a taste for cupcakes and other treats.

Chase talks about:

How the challenge to find accurate dairy farm books to read to tour groups became her motivation
How her family is her inspiration
And the next books to come in this series.

Rosco’s Sweet Treats is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.

Follow Chase’s journey online:

Dairy Diaries LLC on Instagram and Facebook

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