Progressive Dairy Podcasts

Keep up with our Progressive Dairy podcast episodes to gain insights from what is happening in the industry to new and evolving management techniques for your operation. Just like our magazine, we’ll cover a multitude of topics including human resources, business management, facilities, repro and genetics, feed and nutrition, calf and heifer raising, dry and transition cows, herd health, hoof health, milk quality, animal welfare and manure handling.

See our list of other dairy-related podcasts here.

 

Episodes

2022

• Episode 23: Using Technology to Extract More Revenue from Components (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 22: Progressive Dairy Podcast Highlights with Peggy & Kimmi
• Episode 21: The importance of controlling flies on your dairy operation (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 20: Meet the Calf Vet, Dr. Marissa Hake
• Episode 19: Don't overlook the threat of cockroaches (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 18: Managing data on Wisconsin’s largest robotic dairy with Jessica Pralle-Trimner, Miltrim Farms
• Episode 17: Meet the dairy farmers who handed the milk to the 2022 Indy 500 winning driver
• Episode 16: Meet Progressive Dairy’s new editor and podcast host, Kimmi Devaney
• Episode 15: Kurt Wierda and Tom Oelberg: Auditing your TMR and managing 2022 feed costs
• Episode 14: The importance of controlling flies on your dairy operation (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 13: What it takes to stay under 100,000 SCC on composted manure bedding, featuring Scott Blevins, Wiese Bros. Farms, Greenleaf, Wisconsin
• Episode 12: 2022 Nexus Innovation Award winners
• Episode 10: Meet Emily Shaw, Founder of Dairy Girl Fitness
• Episode 9: Teat dip solutions – Keith Engel, GEA (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 8: Take your dairy business to the next level with executive thinking, featuring Jay Joy, Milk Money, LLC
• Episode 7: 4 Change-focused ideas to win in 2022 with Ryan Estis
• Episode 6: Jones Dairy Farm: A seven-generation business family, featuring Philip Jones, CEO
• Episode 5: Dry Matter Intake: The most important metric for herd performance (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 4: How to establish a culture that attracts and retains loyal employees with Jared Yousey, Sunnyside Farms
• Episode 3: Diversifying and doubling down with Randy Ebert and Jordan Ebert
• Episode 2: Evaluating fats in the era of high input costs (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 1: Progressive Dairy Panel from Global Dairy Expo

 

2021

• Episode 43: Progressive Dairy’s Top Articles, Favorite Traditions and What’s New in 2022 - featuring Editors Walt Cooley and Peggy Coffeen
• Episode 42: Real Science Exchange- Producer Panel at World Dairy Expo
• Episode 41: DMI CEO Barb O’Brien: New leadership and opportunities for 2022
• Episode 40: Behind the scenes of the service member story series with Amy Throndsen
• Episode 39: Elle Purrier-St. Pierre: From the dairy farm to chasing Olympic dreams
• Episode 38: Galaxis Frontier is set to change the dairy game - Native Microbials (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 37: Improving Cow Comfort on Farm (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 36: Jim Mattox: Global Dairy Expo
• Episode 35: Producing during a pandemic (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 34: Dairyman Austin Allred: Royal Family Farming
• Episode 33: Q&A with Drumgoon Dairy (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 32: Steve Wangan: What is the Dairy Brain project?
• Episode 31: Robotic milking evolution – Stuart Marshall, GEA (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 30: Encore Consultants: 4 Steps for successful dairy farm transition planning
• Episode 29: Episode 2 of Dairy Talk with Norwegian Red (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 28: Meet the New Mexico Milk Maid: Tara Vander Dussen
• Episode 27: The importance of controlling flies on your dairy operation (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 26: Dairywoman Jodi Wallace: What is zero-zero calf care?
• Episode 25: Producing during a pandemic (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 24: Two technologies that are transforming cow health and reproduction at Dairy Dreams LLC, featuring Dr. Don Niles
• Episode 23: Founder Leon Leavitt: Progressive Dairy’s origin story
• Episode 22: U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award Winner, MVP Dairy – featuring Ken McCarty
• Episode 21: Real Science Exchange - Heat Stress and Late Gestation Cows (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 20: Dairy industry sustainability award program celebrates 10th anniversary
• Episode 19: Milk Moovement: Connecting all players in the industry (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 18: Dr. Larry Corah: The future of beef-on-dairy breeding
• Episode 17: Fresh Cow Files: A Fresh Approach to Fresh Cows (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 16: Willow Behrer Farms: Pete Posnett and Allen Behrer
• Episode 15: Dairy Talk with Norwegian Red (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 14: How to talk so your employees will listen, featuring Bill Eberle, Chr. Hansen, account manager
• Episode 13: Fresh Cow Files: Teamwork Makes the Dairy Work (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 12: Pete Kappelman: Land O’Lakes starts doing on-farm sustainability audits
• Episode 11: Manure scrapers and manure handling efficiency - Jeramy Sanford, GEA (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 10: BeefxDairy: Why not just any black bull will do.
• Episode 9: Nexus Innovation Award winners
• Episode 8: The rumen microbiome and implications for dairy farmers - Mallory Embree, Native Microbials (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 7: Implementing IVF on commercial dairies with Dr. Shantiille Kruse
• Episode 6: Mark Rodgers: Hillcrest Farms (Sponsorcast)
• Episode 5: Jennifer Walker: Making cows happy and milk awesome
• Episode 4: Amy Penterman, president, Dairy Business Association
• Episode 3: Chuck Ripp: Ripp’s Dairy Valley
• Episode 2: Maximizing efficiency with Nate Heim, Yippee! Farms
• Episode 1: Kristy Pagel: Use this powerful tool to transform your team in 2021

 

2020

• Episode 24: Brent Simon: MMPA’s 2020 young cooperator of the year
• Episode 23: Lloyd Holterman, Rosy-Lane Holsteins - Pioneer on the Genomics Frontier
• Episode 22: 4 Things Dairies Need to Do to Stay in Business with Pauly Paul, Complete Management Consulting LLC
• Episode 21: Aidan Connolly: Dairy tech startups in the spotlight
• Episode 20: Get to know co-host editors: Walt Cooley and Peggy Coffeen
• Episode 19: Featuring Jim Ostrom, Milk Source
• Episode 18: The Culture Code book review with dairyman Derek Orth
• Episode 17: Millennial podcasters Valene Lickley and Katharine Lotspeich: No topic is off-limits
• Episode 16: Anna Hinchley: Designing her own robot barn
• Episode 15: Melissa Traiser: Why I nominated my milk hauler for a White Heart Award
• Episode 14: Tim Moffett: The Manure Spreader
• Episode 13: Ben Loewith: 100 pounds of milk per cow per day
• Episode 12: Tom Gallagher: DMI’s response to COVID-19
• Episode 11: Tom Earleywine: What does successful weaning look like in 2020
• Episode 10: Grant Grinstead: elevating accuracy and efficiency with an automated feed system at Vir-Clar Farms
• Episode 9: Tim Brown: Differences in level of DCAD intensity
• Episode 8: Managing manure: Optimizing nitrogen, finding value in manure and selecting the right system
• Episode 7: Ray Bohacz: Machinery maintenance tips from the ‘Hot Rod Farmer’
• Episode 6: Hannah Vander Poel: Advocating on social media as a female dairy farmer
• Episode 5: Brett Sciotto: Who will be dairy farming in 2040?
• Episode 4: Fred Gingrich: AABP updates production guidelines for calf dehorning
• Episode 3: Budjon Farms: Creating permanence in an ever-changing industry
• Episode 2: Joakim Rosengren: Sustaining agriculture around the globe
• Episode 1: Marin Bozic: What the 2020s will look like

 

2019

• Episode 8: Be grateful for your "super power"
• Episode 7: Andy Lenkaitis: The aims of dairy automation
• Episode 6: Dr. Gordie Jones: The all-seasons hybrid barn
• Episode 5: How to ensure farm family meetings are productive
• Episode 4: Pete Turk and Mike North: Risk management and forwarding contracting
• Episode 3: Milking robots: When to retrofit, how to train fresh cows and troubleshooting cow signals
• Episode 2: How dairyman Michael Johnson has integrated eartag activity monitoring
• Episode 1: Interview with Kay Johnson Smith: What animal rights activist are up to in 2019
• Trailer: Introducing Progressive Dairy podcasts

 

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