Rethink and Rebuild your Goals, Habits and Productivity in One Hour
This webinar will be presented by Laura Daniels, Lead Consultant, Hitch Pin, LLC and Courtney Booth, Co-Founder and CEO, Booth Leadership, LLC on Friday, December 17th,2021 at 12:00 p.m. CST | 1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST. This webinar is sponsored by Hitch Pin, LLC and Booth Leadership, LLC.
Webinar Summary: Laura Daniels and Courtney Booth are old friends with a common passion for helping people get the most out of crazy chaotic lives. Join them for a fun-filled fast-paced session designed to build on what is already working for you. In this interactive hour you will glean tips on organizing a full life from Laura, Courtney and dozens of goal-getters just like you! Here’s your chance to breathe life into plans and methods you might have set aside when things got busy and identify ways to stay grounded as the pace picks up again in 2022.
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Treat a dairywoman in your life to the gift of advanced education, growth, leadership and success in her #dairygirl role. DGN has many great programs that are perfect for the giving season:
Give the gift of our dynamic conference to someone special, or yourself! Sign up now to join us in November of 2022 for our Forward TogetHER National Conference, happening live in Prior Lake, MN! Forward TogetHER brings dairywomen, both producers and industry members, together to learn, grow and recharge their batteries. Our conferences are tailored to women who are interested in growing their own skills in a multitude of ways and interacting with one another, and our virtual experience did not change those outcomes but rather amplified them! Now is the time to sign-up to learn, lead and succeed with our Early Bird registration rate! Learn more HERE.
Give the gift of continuing education and constant learning! Looking for a present for a special dairywoman in your life? Gift her a year-long subscription to our webinars for 2022! DGN hosts webinars almost every month to advance knowledge on everything from planting, finances, calf care, mental health, management, transition cows and more! Individual webinar rates are standard at $10 per webinar, but sign up now for our yearly subscription and receive access to every webinar in 2022 for half of the price. You do not need to worry about signing up for individual webinars either- logins for the live webinars and links for the recordings will be automatically sent to your inbox. Sign up once and don’t worry about doing anything else for the entire year! For only $60, you can gift an entire year’s worth of webinars for a loved one. Give her or yourself the gift of continued education HERE!
Give the gift of creating your niche and discovering new opportunities for income and personal growth! We have reopened access to our very popular Sharing Wisdom session that took place virtually last February. This Sharing Wisdom event starts with a keynote from Mary Heffernan (Five Marys Farm), building excitement around entrepreneurship and what it takes to be successful. Next, you can check out any of the three breakout rooms focusing on Events/Agritourism, Food Production, and Publishing/Art/Digital Presence. To close the event, check out the keynote session with Paul Dietmann from Compeer on how to build a business plan. This Sharing Wisdom event gives participants valuable knowledge and key takeaways for attainable income diversification. Bonus: A digital business plan template will also be included! Gift this session to yourself or a dairywoman in your life HERE.
Give the gift of Dairy Girl Network to other dairywomen through a donation! Dairy Girl Network is allowing members and DGN True Believers the opportunity to support an organization they love and help us keep moving our objective forward for all women in dairy. Every donation will provide support to DGN, it’s staff and the overall organization to continue programs such as our Connect networking events, Sharing Wisdom educational seminars, #StrongerTogetHER initiative, Inspire mentoring program, Exchange online community, Include initiative, future courses, and so much more. Give the gift of support and growth of the network for all dairywomen HERE!
This webinar will be presented by Tara Bohnert, Senior Business Development Manager, Nedap, on Friday, November 12th,2021 at 12:00 p.m. CST | 1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST. This webinar is sponsored by Nedap.
Webinar Summary: Take a journey with long time dairy breeder and herd consultant Tara Bohnert as she shares the stories of how farms she works with have successfully implemented activity monitoring systems. She starts with the “why” that farms assess to determine if the need is great enough to offset the cost. She will then venture down the path of approaching a buying decision with suppliers, and how to prepare the farm management team for the transition. She will round out the presentation by providing tips and tricks for installing activity monitoring technology and building a farm team culture that embraces it to the fullest.
Call in, watch online OR listen when you can! We record and hold all webinars for one month for members to watch when it suits them! You must still register by the deadline below to watch this webinar live or on your own time.
A Jersey girl at heart, Tara Bohnert is the Commercial Business Development Manager for Nedap in North America. She identifies opportunities for Nedap solutions and promotes more efficient and sustainable herd management. Before coming to Nedap, she spent 15 years working in the AI industry consulting with dairy farmers around the globe.
Will you be at the Western Dairy Management Conference in Reno, NV on November 2nd? Join Dairy Girl Network for an evening of camaraderie, fun and networking with other dairywomen!
Join other dairywomen for a quick recharge to talk about your lives involving dairy farming. The event is for all women involved with any part of dairy – whether as a calf feeder, dairy owner, marketing or sales consultant servicing dairy farms or cheese producers, veterinarian, researchers, etc. If there is a dairy cow involved in what you do, you’re invited!
Cost is $20.00 which includes appetizers and a DGN special gift. Join us Peppermill Resort Hotel in Reno, Nevada on November 2nd, 2021 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m
Advance registration is appreciated for this Dairy Girl Network event, but walk-ins are welcome. Register HERE.
Making the Most of Year-End Tax Planning and Preparation
This webinar will be presented by Elizabeth Waldschmidt, Senior Tax Accountant, Greenstone Farm Credit Services, on Friday, October 22nd, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. CST | 1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST. This webinar is sponsored by Farm Credit.
Webinar Summary: While year-end tax planning is something that we all know needs to be done, it can sometimes be confusing figuring out where and when to start. Join Farm Credit to better prepare yourself and your operation for the upcoming tax season during this webinar! GreenStone Farm Credit Services tax and accounting expert, Elizabeth Waldschmidt, will discuss how soon you should start planning, factors to consider before making large year-end purchases and what to know before meeting with your accountant. She will also cover tax policy updates and answer your tax-planning questions.
Call in, watch online OR listen when you can! We record and hold all webinars for one month for members to watch when it suits them! You must still register by the deadline below to watch this webinar live or on your own time.
Elizabeth Waldschmidt is a Senior Tax Accountant with GreenStone Farm Credit Services. Elizabeth works out of the Berrien Springs, Michigan branch serving farmers and agricultural businesses. She enjoys providing tax and accounting services to customers, helping them be better prepared for making impactful decisions on their operation.
Maternity and Colostrum Management – How Can We Deliver Healthier Calves and More Productive Cows?
This webinar will be presented by Leticia Sinedino, Dairy Production Specialist, Zoetis, on Friday, September 17th, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. CST | 1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST. This webinar is sponsored by Zoetis.
Webinar Summary:The maternity pen is critical for healthy starts of the lactation of a cow and the life of a calf. The calving process and the first 6 hours of life can determine the success of her lactation and the lifetime productivity of her calf. How big are your risks? Are there opportunities to step it up a level? Are you setting up your cows and calves for success or creating problems? Maternity pen and colostrum management need to be a high priority on your dairy, so let’s discuss some opportunities for you to help get both off to a healthy start!
Call in, watch online OR listen when you can! We record and hold all webinars for one month for members to watch when it suits them! You must still register by the deadline below to watch this webinar live or on your own time.
Leticia Sinedino was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has always been passionate about animals. She received he DVM degree from the Federal Fluminense University in 2008 and joined a private practice in the State of Rio de Janeiro where she worked mainly with dairy farms and some beef ranches. After she completed some hands-on experience, she returned to the Federal Fluminense University and received her Master’s degree in Reproductive Physiology. Upon completion of her Master’s, she was invited to do her PhD at the University of Florida in Animal Molecular and Cellular Biology. During her PhD program, Leticia focused on investigating strategies for improving health, reproduction, and milk production in high-producing dairy cows. In 2017, she joined the Colorado State University to do a postdoc where she investigated cellular and molecular pathways related to early embryonic loss in high-producing dairy cows. In 2018, Leticia joined Zoetis as a Dairy Production Specialist. Her goal is to support dairy farms and improve their efficiency and profitability by having healthier and more productive cows.
Join Dairy Girl Network during World Dairy Expo at any or all three of our events. We are thrilled to be bringing the Family Lounge, Sharing Wisdom educational seminar and Connect networking event back to Expo!
Registration is open for our World Dairy Expo events!
Capitol Square Ballroom in the Sheraton Madison Hotel (706 John Nolen Drive, Madison, Wi – right across from the Expo grounds!)
This annual networking session offers a welcoming environment with great conversations and connections for dairywomen in town for Expo. This event is a short walk from the grounds, but there is also ample parking available and the Sheraton also offers a shuttle to and from the hotel and Expo all day and evening. The cost of the event is $30.00 and includes grazing stations, beverages and some DGN swag.
Sharing Wisdom Educational Seminar:
“Recover and Embrace Your Genuine Self”
Friday, October 1st at 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Mendota 3 room in Exhibition Hall
These last 18 months have not been easy. It’s changed us in a lot of ways. As we re-emerge, we all have an opportunity to take stock in who we are and how we want to live and work post-pandemic. Join us for this special event where resilience expert, Kyra Cavanaugh, will share tips for how to live authentically with less stress and more happiness. You’ll learn simple self-care techniques, tips for speaking your truth, and ways to step into your power at work and at home. In this highly interactive session, you’ll have a chance to reflect on the best of what you learned from the pandemic and what you’d like to leave behind. You’ll experience firsthand the benefits of touch, breath and silence to recover your sense of calm in any situation. Bring your questions and leave with a toolkit full of ideas to improve your wellbeing. You won’t want to miss this session!
During the session, you can also look forward to hearing DGN Founder and President, Laura Daniels, with a welcome and discussion and DGN updates will close the session. The session will conclude with a networking time and. Cost of the event is $15.00 and includes a light lunch.
*If you are attending both the Connect Event and Sharing Wisdom event, you can use a $5 coupon code for a discounted combined rate! More information when you register.
Tuesday, September 28th through Saturday, October 2nd
Madison Room on the second floor of Exhibition Hall
Dairy Girl Network is proud to once again provide a space that families with small children may rest and recharge in a quiet atmosphere during the hustle and bustle of World Dairy Expo. An area for nursing mothers is also available. This space offers comfortable seating, a changing station, toys and snacks to recharge. The Family Lounge will be open all day, every day during World Dairy Expo.
Farm Safety Webinar Mini-Series: Get 2 webinars for the price of 1!
Webinar 1 (pre-recorded):Silage Safety: Send Everyone Home Safe
This webinar waspresented by Connie Kuber, co-owner of Connor Agriscience and Sealpro Silage Barrier Film and is now recorded.
Webinar 1 Summary: Farm work can be divided into two categories: everyday chores and eventful seasonal work. The ritual of everyday chores can lead to complacency, and during the once or twice a year seasonal events (like harvest), we perform unpracticed, out-of-the-ordinary jobs, facing more unfamiliar dangers. Farm life is wrought with safety risks, resulting in something as simple as cuts and bruises, and as tragic as death. Gather around with your family and employees to learn how to lessen the dangers of working with silage from harvest to feedout. This webinar features safe harvest planning and silage management for all ages, with special emphasis on children and young adults. Learn new strategies to send everyone home safe.
Webinar 2:People First for Healthy Agriculture: Managing Risk
This webinar will be presented by Megan Schossow, Director of Outreach & Center Coordinator, Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH), on Friday, August 27th, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. CST | 1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST.
Webinar 2 Summary:A key component to sustainable and thriving agriculture are healthy people and animals. The farm and agricultural sites are a dreamy and dangerous workplace, and yet people are the most important resource in ag. This presentation will take an applied approach to thinking about key hazards in dairies, and everyone will walk away with tools, experts and resources to support dairy workers, families and communities. We will break down the hierarchy of controls and apply it so that participants can have healthy people and animals on the farm.
Call in, watch online OR listen when you can! We record and hold all webinars for one month for members to watch when it suits them! You must still register by the deadline below to watch the webinars live or on your own time.
Connie Kuber is a silage safety advocate and co-owner of Connor Agriscience and Sealpro® Silage Barrier Film. She grew up on a small Southeast Minnesota dairy farm and was lucky to have brothers that would climb the silo when it plugged. She’s lived in California for nearly 40 years, working in genetics, freelance writing, and for the past 25 years, has been in business with her husband, Ron, helping farmers make and manage silage. Her work with large farms coupled with her younger years of small farm life gives her a unique understanding of both, and a deep appreciation for families and employees who work amid farm safety risks every day. Connor (a combination of their names) is an education company first, teaching correct harvest strategy and silage management, resulting in more, better, and safer silage. Connie and Ron introduced oxygen barrier technology to the western US 15 years ago and worked closely with Dr. Keith Bolsen, whose passion was silage safety. Sealpro® is their own brand of film. Connie is currently President of the Bolsen Safety Foundation, serves on the Dairy Girl Network Board of Directors, and the advisory council for Clovis FFA. She and Ron have three grown children. Connie spends her free time training her labrador retriever Amazing Grace, sailing, and authoring biographies.
Megan Schossow is the Outreach Director and Center Coordinator for the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center based in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, where she has worked extensively in outreach and community engagement and emerging issues since 2017. Her background areas of expertise include agronomy and policy analysis, and she holds a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Minnesota. She implements the health and safety outreach program, which prioritizes research to practice and the One Health model. She has previously worked as an agronomist, in government relations and state government, and with her family who farm in Southeast Minnesota.
Dairy Girl Network is launching a campaign to support the overall mission and vision of our organization.We want to allow members and DGN True Believers the opportunity to support an organization they love and help us keep moving our objective forward. Every donation will provide support to DGN, it’s staff and the overall organization to continue programs such as our Connect networking events, Sharing Wisdom educational seminars, #StrongerTogetHER initiative, Inspire mentoring program, Exchange online community, Include initiative, future courses, and so much more.
The Dairy Girl Network connects all women of the dairy industry and beyond, encouraging ideas and camaraderie in an effort to achieve personal and professional development. As Dairy Girl Network (DGN) grows and adapts to evolving changes all around us, it’s important we remain focused on our vision of supporting all women in dairy by enhancing lives and creating opportunities. The dairy business has changed and DGN is exploring an additional option of financial support for our organization since our membership is free. What has not changed all around us is that DGN members across the nation are coming together and finding a community when they might not have one up the street. DGN programs are designed to help women find information that will move them to do better in every part of their life. Anywhere there is a dairy producer, we have members. This is vital because we want to make sure DGN is inclusive when we look at all of the issues facing the dairy business right where each dairywoman is. To support our mission and vision, DGN will be fundraising to a monetary goal by support from individuals and business donations for the very first time.
Your support is greatly appreciated to help us continue to support all women in dairy by enhancing lives and creating opportunities. DGN is an organization without membership dues and since inception, funding sources have graciously been provided through agri-business and industry believers.
This webinar will be presented by Lisa Liimattaand Kaela Gedda, Cofounders of Rise Leadership Circle and moderated byPeggy Coffeen, Founder of P’ri CBD and Editor at Progressive Dairy, on Friday, July 16th, 2021at 12:00 p.m. CST | 1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST. This webinar is sponsored by Rise Leadership Circle and P’ri CBD.
Webinar Summary:Have you been playing small? Or setting goals, only to fall short of achieving them? In this webinar, hear from mother-daughter coaching duo Lisa Liimatta and Kaela Gedda of Rise Leadership Circle, as they dive into the process they’ve discovered to stretch your goals beyond logical limits, and then take the inspired actions to create the life of your dreams.
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Lisa and Kaelaare the mother-daughter cofounders of Rise Leadership Circle. They coach soulful entrepreneurs who are committed to:
Ditching hustle, overwhelm, and being underpaid
Stand in their worth and live an epic life
Receive wealth via their lucrative, mission-driven businesses
They both live in the Midwest and each have two dogs. They are avid readers and champagne drinkers. Lisa opened and built a seven figure business during the 2008 recession and Kaela blazed her own trail from being six figures of debt to a multi-six figure entrepreneur in her mid-twenties. Supporting women to unleash their deepest desires and build profitable businesses as a result are one of the things they enjoy doing most together.
Peggy Coffeen is a mom, wife, writer and fourth-generation farmer from northeast Wisconsin, with a passion for helping other women find peace, rest and relief for their bodies, minds and spirits. After stumbling across CBD as an effective management tool to focus her “mom brain”, sleep better and calm her busy mind, she struggled to find a trustworthy, local source for oils. In 2019, she founded P’ri CBD, a line of health and wellness products made from the hemp grown by her own hands, right on her farm. Today, the call God placed so strongly on her heart has grown into a thriving business that serves customers in more than 10 states, providing not only third-party tested products, but also complimentary prayer cards. Peggy also works in the dairy industry as an editor and podcast host for Progressive Dairy magazine. She and her husband, Kevin, have four children, ranging in age from 3 to 21 years old.
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