REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Please REGISTER here by November 6, 2024.
Contact your dairy production consultant with questions: 651-923-6001
Join us at Treasure Island Resort & Casino for this overnight event! Thank you for the past two years! Let’s make 2024 another great year. We, your animal nutrition team, would like to extend an invitation to this year’s Dairy Seminar. Our goal is to create a productive environment conducive to learning, sharing, and networking with industry experts and fellow professional dairy producers. Welcome to our Team of Professionals (TOP) Dairy Seminar.
This year’s 2-day Dairy event promises 3 general sessions and 6 opportunities for breakouts, socializing, meals and entertainment in 22 hours.
Register by November 6, 2024 to
- have your registration fee waived
- reserve one hotel room
- receive an event sweatshirt new!
- be entered in our Udderly Big door prize drawing
After November 6 there is a registration fee of $50 per person, and a hotel room cannot be guaranteed. Udderly big door prizes include: Two separate high buck gift cards and a Yoder Smoker. *Must be present to win.
WHAT TO EXPECT
DAY 1:
- Dairy seminar check-in to begin at 1 pm. (any bags can be left in registration area if hotel room is not yet available)
- Welcome from Ag Partners starting at 2:45 pm
- General sessions at 3:00 & 4:15 pm
- Social hour, dinner & activities until 10:00 pm
DAY 2:
- Breakfast will be provided starting at 6:30 am.
- Breakout sessions to begin at 8:15 & 9:30 am
- Keynote speaker at 11 am
- Prize drawing & closing remarks; lunch at 12 pm. The lunch will be boxed and available to take with if you have to hit the road, or if you can, please stay to eat.
DAIRY SEMINAR PRESENTERS
LORI FETZER
Director of Ag Lending- Dairy, Compeer Financial
“Benchmarking Dairy Farm Profitability, Performance & Culture”
General Session: 3 pm, Wednesday
Lori is the Dairy Team Leader at Compeer Financial. She has been with the Farm Credit system since 2003 having worked as a credit analyst as well as a dairy lending specialist. As a member of our Dairy Lending Team, Lori works alongside commercial and progressive-minded dairy farmers to meet their lending and business planning needs.
Lori has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls with a double major in business administration and marketing communications. She is active in local and community events and has been involved in the dairy industry her whole life. Lori’s hobbies include spending time at the cabin, being out on the water, snowmobiling and spending time with family. Lori and her husband Joe, live in Plum City, Wis. Joe and his family operate a 1500 cow dairy farm in Elmwood, WI.
ADAM CARDWELL
Senior Sourcing & Risk Manager, Land O’Lakes
“Local Dairy Markets & Future Trends”
General Session: 4:30 pm, Wednesday
Adam Cardwell has been trading and managing commodity risk for 15 years. Currently, he is developing and implementing risk strategies for physical procurement and derivative energy trading at Land O’Lakes for natural gas, heating oil, propane and retail electricity in both regulated and non-regulated states.
Along with his energy responsibilities, he manages commodity risk for the Purina and WinField United divisions on corn, soybeans, soybean meal and wheat. He is a licensed insurance agent, serving as vice president of Land O’Lakes Insurance Solutions, LLC, which offers both dairy and livestock revenue protection insurance products.
Adam earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska.
DR. SARA KVIDERA
Dairy Technical Consultant, Elanco Animal Health
“Capturing Income from Carbon Programs”
Breakout Sessions: 8:15 and 9:30 am, Thursday
Dr. Sara Kvidera is a Dairy Technical Consultant for Elanco Animal Health based in Iowa. She focuses on dairy cattle nutrition.
Kvidera found her passion for animal science growing up on a crop and cattle farm. This passion led her to Kansas State University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in animal science. While at Kansas State University, she fell in love with dairy cattle and went on to pursue her doctorate degree in ruminant nutrition from Iowa State University. Kvidera has studied and published in areas related to dairy cow metabolism, heat stress, inflammation, feed additives and gut health.
Kvidera has worked as a technical consultant in the industry since 2017 and joined Elanco’s dairy technical consultant team in 2021.
DR. JOHN GOESER, PhD, PAS, Diplomate ACAN
Animal Nutrition, Research, and Innovation Director, Rock River Laboratories
“Forage Insights for 2024 & Looking Forward to 2025”
Breakout Sessions: 8:15 and 9:30 am, Thursday
DR. TREVOR DEVRIES
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Dairy Cattle Behavior and Welfare, University of Guelph, Ontario
“Minimizing Stress in Transition Cows to Maximize Success”
Breakout Sessions: 8:15 and 9:30 am, Thursday
Trevor grew up in British Columbia, Canada, and always had a lifelong interest in dairy cows. His interest in animal science continued as an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia, where he had the opportunity to participate in dairy cow research. That led to an interest in nutritional management, animal welfare and behaviour, which he studied during his graduate program at UBC. Trevor then completed a one-year postdoctoral position with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Lethbridge Research Centre. In 2007, he began his academic position at the University of Guelph’s Kemptville Campus, where he worked for eight years before coming to U of G’s main campus in 2015. He is currently a Canada Research Chair in Dairy Cattle Behaviour and Welfare. In addition to his research responsibilities, Trevor also contributes to teaching at the university, including instructing undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of dairy cattle management, behavior, and welfare, coaching the university Dairy Challenge team, as well as mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students.
ANDY CAYGEON
Author, Public Speaker, Farmer, STUBBORN.FARM
“Farming with your Stubborn Family / Saving the Family Farm”
Keynote: 11 am, Thursday
Andy Junkin (christened Mark Andrew Junkin) is a 7th generation farmer from Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada. The day he left for Agriculture College, his mother showed him the farm financials and stated, “If you don’t fix these numbers, I’m leaving your father.” When Andy’s father ploughed under his crops out of jealousy in 1996, he quickly realized that knowledge and skills aren’t the only things needed to turn around a failing farm.
Over the past two decades he became a self-taught expert creating his niche field of farm decision science – studying indepth on how farm families often have a dysfunctional decision-making culture and an awkward transition of management. Andy has written four books, has a column in 9 farm magazines, and speaks everywhere. Over the past decade he’s made a full-time living mediating and has a track record for pulling off miracles.
What he has learned over the past decade helping farm families is that you can’t ever tell a farmer WHAT to do. His focus and expertise is on getting the farm to focus on what matters and improve HOW farm families make DECISIONS together.
You’ve got to do three things:
- You’ve got to identify where you are going.
- You’ve got to define how you’re getting there.
- You’ve got to be realistic about where you’re at!
This is what he writes about.
In 2017, Andy married a Michigan farm girl named Bernadette Fox, and they settled near Solon, IA. As a true husband/wife team, they are zealous about their mission to save as many family farms as possible.
Learn more on his website.
QUESTIONS
Your Ag Partners dairy production consultant is happy to assist with any questions or concerns you may have. 651-923-6001
GETTING THERE
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