Uplevel Dairy Podcast

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May 07, 2024110 | 3 Human Resource Hacks to Take Control of Turnover Today
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/
26 min
May 02, 2024109 | Young Leader with Ytsje Andringa
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.
30 min
April 30, 2024108 | How This Dairy Manager Slayed the Time-Consuming Data Monster
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
https://www.facebook.com/dairyperformancenetwork/

https://www.instagram.com/dairy_performance_network/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dairy-performance-network/
Contact DPN
806-639-5166

[email protected]

www.dpnconnect.com
32 min
April 25, 2024 107 | How Good Can We Get? with Megan Schrupp, DVM, NexGen Dairy

“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
22 min
April 23, 2024 106 | Dairy Farming on Three Continents with Young Leader Laurens Rutten
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/
39 min
April 18, 2024 105 | U.S. Milk Production + Feed Cost Predictions: HighGround Dairy April Monthly Market Update
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 [email protected]
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.

23 min
April 16, 2024104 | 7 Secrets to Employee Retention Success
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
28 min
April 11, 2024103 | Young Leader Takeover at the Midwest Dairy Challenge!
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.
15 min
April 09, 2024102 | From Bleeding $500,000 to Better than Breaking Even
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

[email protected]

920-418-3135
18 min
April 04, 2024101 | Mental Toughness: The 75-Day Transformation
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
Episode 100: 4 Miles Every 4 Hours for 48 Hours

The 7,000 Cows in 7 Years Vision

Finding Balance with a Big Vision - Part 1: Faith, Family and Dairy Farming

Finding Balance with a Big Vision - Part 2: Health, Relationships and Accountabiity
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/
14 min

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