Talk Dairy to Me

Innovation is all around us at DFA, from robotic milkers to new, blended products and everything in between. On this month’s episode of Talk Dairy to Me, DFA’s podcast featuring all things innovation, you’ll hear about one of those in-between topics: mooving milk.  Our host, Director of Cultural Innovation Doug Dresslaer, talked with Tim Houck, vice president of fluid milk operations, and Cory Johnson, senior vice president of operations and logistics, about how we’re getting the good stuff from farm to plant more efficiently with their new mobile manifest project. To listen to this episode and ensure you don’t miss any in the future, search for Talk Dairy to Me and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

Is it gassy in here, or is it just our podcast?

Talk Dairy to Me is getting gassy — and buttery? If you think that’s a weird combination, you’ll want to listen to the August episode of Talk Dairy to Me, available now. This month you’ll meet our new host and spend some time with a couple of the startup founders who joined us in the 2019 DFA Accelerator class. (webextlink://This month you’ll meet our new host and spend some time with a couple of the startup founders who joined us in the 2019 DFA Accelerator class.) We’ll talk enteric emissions (yep, we mean cow burps) with Dr. Elizabeth Latham, and then hear from the Butter Boy himself, Josh Green. If you haven’t subscribed yet, get your life together and search Talk Dairy to Me wherever you listen to podcasts.

During this episode, we’ll outline some of the work our Beverage and Dairy Foods division is doing around continuous improvement and challenging the status quo every day. Join your host, Annie Kramer, as she chats with Craig Martek, Dustin Mitchell and Jeff Terrell about the exciting work they are doing within their division and how they’re getting it adopted across more of the manufacturing teams at Dairy Farmers of America.

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Today we’re going to take a look at the Transportation and Logistics Department here at Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), and dive into some of their new, innovative initiatives they are working on to create efficiencies across the Cooperative. We’ll kick it off with an overview of supply chain with Executive Lecturer and Director of the Supply Chain Management Centerat University of Kansas Roger Woody. After we have a little bit of context, we’ll talk to several members of the DFA team, including Susie Richie, Corey Ritenour, Darlene Wolf and Frank Wurst, about their work more specifically.

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In part two of this 2-part series our host is joined by Greg Czernik, Senior Director of Consumer Insights and Trade Spend for DFA’s Consumer Retail division, to discuss how DFA’s Consumer Retail division, uses consumer insights to decide which new products to launch.

Want the full download on how consumer insights are used within the Food and Beverage industry as a whole? Check out part one before you listen to this episode!

During this episode of a 2-part series, we’ll dive into consumer insights with industry experts, Pushkar Raj, Director and Instructor of Marketing Analytics at University of Minnesota and our partners at iRi, John Crawford and Andrea Huberty. We’ll not only talk about what exactly are consumer insights and how they are used to make business decisions, but also discuss the idea of how these insights are used when talking about Food and Beverage as a whole, and then specifically, the dairy industry.

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During this episode our host had a chance to sit down with Alan Reed, Executive Director at the Chicagoland Food and Beverage Network. Listen as they dissect the complicated landscape of the food and beverage industry — from trends and new products to e-commerce and accelerator programs.

Take a quick break from your day as we hear from Brandon Fischer in our first employee spotlight mini episode. Brandon works as our Compliance Manager at our Kansas City, Kan., office in the mind behind the name for this podcast.

Want to learn more about innovation at Dairy Farmers of America? Check out our website at www.dfamilk.com/innovation (www.dfamilk.com/innovation).