Uplevel Dairy Podcast

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 integration is on the minds of many forward-thinking dairy farmers. And that's why today you are going to hear from a dairyman who is doing it on the Uplevel Dairy podcast.
I recently sat down with TJ Tuls, a fourth-generation dairyman and founder of DARI LLC, the company that has created the milk beverage MOO’V. 
Find out how becoming a dad is what inspired him to want to transform the milk-drinking experience for his son and his wife. It gave him the vision for creating lifelong milk consumers by bringing to the marketplace a new milk beverage to a dairy case near you.
Through a new model of providing exceptional service, consultation, products, and supplies. Stick around to the end of this episode to hear straight from Dr. David Gnad, CEO of Heritage Vet Partners. 
What you’ll learn:

Learn more about MOO’V & DARI here: https://realdari.com/ or connect with them on your favorite social media platform
Thanks to our Sponsor: Heritage Vet Partners
Heritage Vet Partners is the nation’s leading veterinary partnership specializing in mixed/large animal practices. They believe there is great value in the legacy, customer relationships, brand, culture, and team that you have built. Their goal is to provide services and support around the foundation you have developed. Most importantly, they believe that it takes a community to best meet the changing needs of the customers and industries that we serve.
Learn more about Heritage Vet Partners Here: https://heritagevetpartners.com

You may already be doing annual employee reviews … but are you actually using them to drive employee engagement?

And maybe you hold monthly employee meetings … but are they actually helping you to get buy-in and build team camaraderie to move toward your goals?

Or are you just checking the boxes with more meetings that take up your time and space on your calendar?

We’re revisiting highlights from Ep. 20 - one of the top episodes from season 1 of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, where dairy manager Brett Barlass from California Dairy Farms, breaks down how he went a stretch of 9 years without a no-call, no-show employee while managing Yosemite Jerseys. 

You are about to find out how he’s doing it, and how you too can use reviews and meetings to actually get employees excited to come to work and want to continue to be a long-term high performing team member, so listen in to learn:

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. 

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 that will help you move forward.

It’s helped me in my business to gain more focus and clarity, it’s helped make decisions easier, it’s saved me time and money, and it can do that for you too.

Join host, Peggy Coffeen, as she leads a panel discussion at the World Dairy Expo with Three NMPF Young Cooperator Members.

What you’ll learn:

A Panel Discussion from the World Dairy Expo hosted by NMPF YC.

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 of a high-performing dairy manager.

Dairy manager Scott Blevins shares the habits, routines, and principles that build his resilience and endurance to stay on top of his game while managing 6,500 cows, 6,600 youngstock, and a team of people at Wiese Bros. Farms in Greenleaf, Wisconsin.
What you’ll learn:

Sponsored by Armor Animal Health, your trusted vet, sales, and laboratory partner supplying you with core livestock products and solutions that will help you reach your farm goals.

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 Dairy, about his experience in building a top-notch employee culture that resulted in zero turnover!

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 52 employees on one of Wisconsin’s largest dairies. In this podcast, Jared shares how he took on the challenge of upleveling the culture of this dairy to be a place where people want to work and want to stay … with nearly zero employee turnover for the past half year. And he’s done all this at just 26 years old.
What you’ll learn:
- Jared’s vision for the culture he wanted to create at Rosendale Dairy
- What he does every day to create that culture
- Who is the most important employee?
- The tools that empowered him to take action
- The results of culture on employee turnover
- Jared’s best advice to others managing both cows and people

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/https://www.adisseo.com/en/

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 years.

Their banker told them their loan was not going to be up for renewal, and suggested the auction block was their action plan.

And a good dairy farmer who was having a hard time hanging onto hope that things would ever get better - for his farm and for his life.

5 years ago, the future was not looking good for this dairy or dairyman.

But fast-forward to now: That same dairy farm is still in business - in fact, they are still with that same lender - and they have been making money … even when $13 milk hit last summer, they were confident in their viability.

So what took them from the brink of bankruptcy to being profitable, to being able to not just pay their bills - but prepay some bills?

A call with Pauly from Complete Management Consulting. Listen to the full episode for all of the details!

This Episode is Sponsored by Complete Management Consulting.

Contact

Pauly Paul

www.CompleteManagementConsulting.com

[email protected]

920-418-3135

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What's happening halfway around the world in the global marketplace that can impact your milk check in this final quarter of 2023?

What you'll learn:

This episode is brought to you by Adisseo.

Tune in below or on your favorite listening platform for all of the details on this episode! ​

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.

What you’ll learn:

BONUS CONTENT!

Nedap Power Play: How to Up the Accuracy of Dairy Farm Identification and Data, with Nedap Technical Support Manager Ron Dehli

As we close in on the last three months of the year, how are you positioning yourself and your dairy business to finish strong? What do you need to do today to be happy with where you are at by the end of 2023?

What you’ll learn:

Contact Jay Joy:

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 a value-added marketing opportunity for dairy farm families through Valley Milk, and now leading efforts to help dairy farmers be beneficiaries of the methane market, Matt Budine has had a hand in seeing the vision for what it will take to be successful, profitable and sustainable in the dairy business. He’s driven by that same purpose in giving back, as a co-founder of the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, which has impacted more than 4,000 students in its 20+ year history.

So how has Matt multiplied his impact to reach more than one million cows and thousands of young dairy leaders? Hear his story of unselfish leadership and the steps he takes to scale success in the dairy business.

What you’ll learn:

CONNECT with MATT BUDINE: