Webinar Summary: Scope 3, Carbon Credits, Offsets, Insets, Claims, Accounting, Emission Factors, Double Counting. I’m sure you’ve all heard these terms floating around when you work in the dairy space. Carbon credits and a push for lower emissions from dairy farms has become a topic of focus recently and is rapidly changing. Let’s spend time talking about what these terms mean, what to be aware of, and where to find more information.
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Jennifer Bockhahn was raised on a small organic dairy farm in western New York where she worked alongside her father. After graduating college, she spent five years working with the PRO-DAIRY Diary Environmental Systems group at Cornell University. In this role, she focused on public outreach, education and applied research programs driven by farmer needs and requests. Topics of focus in this role included methane measurement, manure management, barn design and all aspects of cow comfort. At Barry Callebaut, Jennifer develops and implements dairy sustainability projects that reduce risk and increase financial compensation for farmers for their efforts and is excited to share her learnings (and to learn) from farmers everywhere.
New mom traveling to the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin Conference? Check out our Mother’s Room space!
Wednesday, March 15th through Thursday, March 16th | All Day
Will you be at the Professional Dairy Producers – PDPW Annual Business Conference? Help us spread the word that there will be a Mother’s Room available at the event! This Mother’s Room will be located in the women’s restroom area across from the ‘Africa 10‘ breakout room. The PDPW Business Conference is this week, March 15 – 16, 2023 at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells, WI.
Tuesday, March 14 at 12:00 p.m. CST (1:00 p.m. EST | 11:00 a.m. MST | 10:00 a.m. PST)
We all feel like we’re in a rut from time to time in our personal and professional lives. Ruts can happen in your personal relationships and career, but how you handle it is what matters. This session was created for you to advance your on and off farm personal and professional relationships by experiencing how others handled similar situations and learning new strategies in the process. During this virtual Sharing Wisdom event, we invite you to connect in the discussion with other members, hear tips and experiences from our speakers and attendees and achieve success by building healthy relationships.
We are so excited to welcome a variety of speakers to this year’s Sharing Wisdom. To kick off us off, Hank Wagner (Wagner Leadership Training) will open the session by discussing how to create a personal strategy to create a plan to get out of your personal or professional rut.
Next, you will have access to 1 of 3 breakout rooms that you will choose when you register:
Advancing Your Career On Farm:
Are you currently working on a dairy farm and looking for opportunities to grow in your role? Are you not sure how to explore different opportunities that you could have on the farm? Are you looking to learn new skills along the way to help you become a stronger leader too? Or maybe you are looking to gain insight into how you can navigate relationships with your supervisors and co-workers to grow in your role? Join us to hear how Kate Kulp of Kulp Dairy Farm LLC took steps to do just that, what skills you need to develop, and how to advocate for yourself and your worth to advance in your role on the farm.
Speaker: Kate Kulp, Herd Manager/Partner, Kulp Family Dairy LLC
Moderator: Amy Dicke, DVM, Hilltop Farms Inc
Advancing Your Career in Sales:
How do you go about making a sale? Asking questions and listening. Showcasing your full potential. Standing out and telling your story. Overcoming objections. Now, when it comes to advancing your career in sales how do you maneuver that? How do you show up at a farm oriented and confident ready to make that great pitch, gain their trust, and leave knowing you have a new customer? Join us to hear how Bobbi Jo Brockmann, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, at ImmuCell Corporation utilized her knowledge as a field sales rep for dairy and beef producers to get where she is today and the skills that helped her along the way.
Speaker: Bobbi Jo Brockmann, Vice President Sales & Marketing, ImmuCell Corporation
Moderator: Julie Veldhuis, Director, Business Development, LF Bioenergy
Advancing Your Career Through Relationships:
How can you be more intentional about building strong professional relationships? How can you build relationships with industry partners, customers, and your co-workers to be help you become more successful? What skills can you employ to help you be a good leader or a good co-worker? Join us to hear how Bob Hagenow, Sales Manager/Business Unit Manager, at Vita Plus has built strong professional relationships over his 35-year+ career.
Speaker: Bob Hagenow, Sales Manager/Business Unit Manager, Vita Plus Corporation
Moderator: Bec Shaw, Global Content Marketing Manager, Zinpro
To close the virtual event, all participants join back together for a presentation by Angie Coleman (FCCS Consulting) on generational communication and how to work with people from multiple generations.
OpeningKeynote Speaker:Hank Wagner, CEO, Wagner Farms and Wagner Leadership Training
Hank Wagner, along with his amazing wife Pam and two children Shawn and Laura, own and operate multiple businesses. One is a fifth-generation dairy farm where they produce enough milk to provide a glass of milk to over 165,000 people every day. Hank is also founder of Wagner Leadership Training and loves to help people understand how leadership impacts every area of our lives. Hank has been involved in many organizations and has held numerous leadership roles. He also writes articles for numerous publications and has authored two books, Teachable Moments and Simple Miracles. Hank is a frequent speaker across the United States and internationally. Hank believes that people are what is most important in life and is passionate about helping others be more aware of their potential for success, in every area of their lives.
ClosingKeynote Speaker: Angie Coleman, Organizational Development Consultant, FCCS Consulting
Angie Coleman is an organizational development consultant with FCCS, where she leads the employee engagement survey practice, administers and consults on assessment instruments, and supports executive selection engagements with expert research. Prior to joining FCCS, she founded and managed a consulting firm focused on human capital strategies, organizational development, employee engagement, executive coaching and executive development. She also worked for YoPro Global, bringing western professional education and training techniques to underserved and underdeveloped countries. Angie earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, education and science from Graceland University and a bachelor’s degree in professional psychology from Bellevue University, where she is also pursuing a master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology. She is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation and is certified in numerous assessment instruments and engagement survey tools, including the Gallup Q12, BP 10 and Strengths Finder.
Breakout Session: Advancing Your Career On Farm
Speaker: Kate Kulp, Herd Manager/Partner, Kulp Family Dairy LLC
Kate Kulp is the herd manager and a partner at Kulp Family Dairy LLC in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 2020 with an associate degree in business from Penn State Altoona, she returned to her family farm. Kate spent the first 18 months learning operations and shadowing various employees before moving into a management/owner role. Kate now works to oversee 3,000 milking cows and around 30 employees.
Moderator: Amy Dicke, DVM, Hilltop Farms Inc
Amy Dicke is an experienced dairy producer in Southwest Ohio. She farms with her husband and son, which makes five generations of family that have been dedicated to the dairy industry. Amy’s passions are family, which she and her husband feel fortunate to have raised five children, being part of an industry that produces a product providing essential benefits to others, and good stewardship of their land and livestock. Her educational background includes a BS in Dairy Science and a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from The Ohio State University. Amy spent close to four decades practicing veterinary medicine, initially in a private mixed animal practice followed by a corporate technical services/scientific communication role with The Iams Company. Her last five years have been exclusively dedicated to their dairy, during which robotic milking technology was installed. Amy’s primary responsibilities are managing the husbandry of the young stock, providing herd preventative, sick and emergency health care, performing the majority of the artificial insemination, and handling the accounting and livestock records for the farm.
Breakout Session: Advancing Your Career in Sales
Speaker: Bobbi Jo Brockmann, Vice President Sales & Marketing, ImmuCell Corporation
An entrepreneurial mindset, farm-kid work ethic, and respect for the power of a team have led to Bobbi Jo Brockmann’s more than 15 years of sales & marketing leadership in both the nutrition and pharmaceutical segments of animal agriculture. Bobbi is accomplished in reinventing brands and developing strategies that increase product acceptance while truly serving others. She is currently the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for ImmuCell Corporation. But much like the book by Robert Fulghum titled “All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten” she will insist that all she really needs to know about business, she learned as a field sales rep calling on dairy and beef producers. She is adaptable, leads with passion, believes in the impossible, and her enthusiasm is contagious.
Moderator: Julie Veldhuis, Director, Business Development, LF Bioenergy
Julie Veldhuis grew up in Southern California to parents who were second generation dairy farmers. Her grandparents immigrated here from Holland and she has had the opportunity to dairy in CA, NM, ID and WI. After graduating high school, Julie went to a travel agency school; she knew then that she wanted to see the world. As a second opportunity, she attended a trade school to learn computer operations as she is an IT geek at heart. While a dairy farmer in Idaho, she served five years on the United Dairyman of Idaho board and three years on the National Dairy Board. In 2012, she relocated to WI where she spent the next eight years loving everyone and everything it had to offer. Julie also served one year on the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin board of directors. Fast forward to March of 2022, she accepted a position with LF Bioenergy and helps the company partner with dairy farmers to build renewable natural gas projects while helping them meet their sustainability goals. She now resides in ID where she can be close to her children and grandson. Her greatest accomplishments are her four exceptional children. When Julie is not working, you will find her on the golf course or in an airport making new friends.
Breakout Session: Advancing Your Career Through Relationships
Speaker: Bob Hagenow, Sales Manager/Business Unit Manager, Vita Plus Corporation
Bob Hagenow has been an employee owner at Vita Plus Corporation for over 35 years. Vita Plus is a regional feed company based in Madison marketing livestock feeds and programs largely in the Midwest. During this time, he has held numerous roles including territory manager, sales manager and regional business manager. Prior to Vita Plus, Bob worked for 2 years at the National Brown Swiss Association in Beloit, Wisconsin serving as a field representative. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and hails from a dairy farm from Northeast Wisconsin. Bob currently lives in Poynette, Wisconsin with his wife, Lisa. They have two daughters attending the University of Minnesota both majoring in Agriculture. Bob has spent his career attempting to build healthy, productive and long-lasting relationships with industry partners, customers and fellow employees with the intent of helping them become successful.
Moderator: Bec Shaw, Global Content Marketing Manager, Zinpro
Growing up in Central Pennsylvania, Rebecca Shaw started working on her grandparents’ dairy farm and raising show animals at home. She earned a major in Agribusiness Management and a minor in International Ag at Penn State. Rebecca works for the Cargill dairy marketing team. She is a Class 10 graduate of YDLI, a Class 11 Advisory Board Member, a 4-H Dairy Bowl Coach, a guest contributor for Progressive Dairy and received the Penn State Dairy Science Club Outstanding Young Alumna Award in 2019 for her work within the industry.
Join DGN on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 in Tulare, CA from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. for a Connect Networking Event!
This DGN Connect event will be held during World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in booth DS 106.
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, veterinarians, researchers, etc. If there is a dairy cow involved in what you do, you’re invited! Stop in for 5 minutes or stay for the whole morning.
This Dairy Girl Network Connect event is FREE and attendees will enjoy coffee, snacks and receive swag from DGN and our partners!
Advanced RSVPs for the DGN Connect event are encouraged. Walk-in registrations are welcome.
Join DGN on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 in State College, PA from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. for a Connect Networking Event!
This DGN Connect event will be held during the PA Dairy Summit at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in the Nittany Lion Suite.
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, veterinarians, researchers, etc. If there is a dairy cow involved in what you do, you’re invited.
This Dairy Girl Network Connect event price is $10 and attendees will enjoy dessert, drinks and receive swag from DGN and our partners!
Advanced registration for the DGN Connect event is encouraged. Walk-in registrations are welcome.
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 – and they are all virtual, so it’s even easier to gift your friend that lives across the country!
Give the gift of education through our 2022 DGN Forward TogetHER conference($199)
Gift access to all the recorded general sessions AND breakouts! That includes almost 20 sessions, including presentations by Mary Ledman, Laura Daniels, Dr. Barry Bradford, Hannah Thompson-Weeman, The NY Farm Girls and many, many more! Gift a Forward TogetHER Recorded Sessions registration HERE and you or your loved one can watch on your schedule!
Give her the gift of continuing education and constant learning through a subscription to our Enhance webinars ($60)
DGN hosts webinars almost every month to advance knowledge on everything from planting, finances, calf care, mental health, personal development, cow care and more! Why not gift a WHOLE YEAR of webinars? For only $60, you can do that for a loved one HERE.
Give the gift of learning to build a business ($10)
Give the gift of learning to build a business! Gift a registration to the recording of our Sharing Wisdom event “How Does She Do It? These Women Built a Business” to watch four powerhouse entrepreneurial women share the ins and outs of how they started their businesses. From the nitty gritty business planning details to how they managed while having families (and a life!), you will hear the good, the bad, the ugly and the incredible journey they all embarked on. Gift this session to yourself or a dairywoman in your life HERE.
Give the gift of Dairy Girl Network to other dairywomen through a donation ($??)
This option is perfect to thank an individual in your life by making a donation in their honor. Every donation will provide support to DGN, it’s staff and the overall organization to continue programs such as our Connect networking events, #StrongerTogetHER initiative, Exchange online community, Include initiative, future courses, and so much more. Give the gift of support and growth of the network for all women in dairy HERE!
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving – and Dairy Girl Network is participating. We’re humbly asking for your support. We have a goal of raising $25,000 with our True Believers Campaign: Will you help us? Any amount helps support programming for women in dairy.
Today is #GivingTuesday and we are grateful to all of our members and supporters. With your support, our members across the nation continue to come together and find 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, both personally and professionally. We want women in dairy to connect, inspire and achieve, together.
Membership to Dairy Girl Network remains free thanks to generous business partnerships and individual donors. If you are able, we ask that you consider contributing towards our organization to help us keep expanding our vision of supporting all women in dairy by enhancing lives and creating opportunities. Every dollar counts and helps us towards our goal!
YOU can help us reach our goal! 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.
Webinar Summary: What is OSHA looking for on your facility during a farm audit? How can you be prepared for and injury or audit? What can safety violations look like and what can they cost you? Join us and have Chase Pagel answer some of those questions and talk about the top three most common violations and what the standard is, training, written programs and what is the employer’s responsibility. No matter the size of your farm, join us to learn how to keep your family and employees safe.
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.
Chase Pagel is a Safety Coordinator for Pagel’s Family Business. She started her safety career in 2012 at Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy, when OSHA started the Local Emphasis Program in Wisconsin. In 2016 she went back to school to get her Safety Engineering Technology Associates Degree and graduated in 2019. Today, Chase is the Safety Coordinator for Pagel’s Family Business which includes 4 Dairies, 1 Calf Facility, 2 Heifer facilities, 1 Cropping Management Team, 1 Milk Transport Team and a cheese production facility. She works closely with her Safety Assistant, a translator, and all managers across the facilities to ensure that safety is a top priority within the team’s culture. Chase is married to JJ Pagel and together they have 4 children: Kiley, Jaylyn, Jaxen and Jase.
Dairy Girl Network (DGN) announces opening of nominations for the DGN Leading Impact award, sponsored by Beck’s, and the DGN Forward Under 40 (+4) award, sponsored by Compeer Financial. Online nominations are now open and due September 15, 2022. Award winners will be honored at the Forward TogetHER National Conference from November 1 -3, 2022 in Prior Lake, Minn.
The DGN Forward Under 40 (+4) award, sponsored by Compeer Financial, recognizes four passionate dairywomen working to better the dairy industry today. New this year, the DGN Leading Impact award, sponsored by Beck’s, will honor a distinguished dairywoman with involvement and leadership achievements positively impacting the dairy industry.
Nominees for both awards can be a dairy farmer, industry representative, educator and/or have multiple dairy related roles. The ideal candidate will have contributed success towards dairy farming, is a leader within the agricultural industry and their community and be paving the way for future generations.
“Dairywomen are always moving the arrow forward for success to the dairy industry,” said DGN President and Founder, Laura Daniels, “DGN’s awards are milestone achievements honoring women in dairy who are positively influencing dairy farming into the future.”
The DGN Forward Under 40 award is presented biennially at the Forward TogetHER National Conference. For 2022 only, women aged 44 and under are eligible to be nominated for the DGN Forward Under 40 (+4) award, sponsored by Compeer Financial. Because the 2020 Forward TogetHER National Conference was held virtually, award recipients were not honored. Therefore, the award criteria is temporally modified to Forward Under 40 (+4), opening the door for women who may have missed the opportunity in 2020.
Nominate a dairywoman for the Forward Under 40 (+4) award HERE!
Nominate a dairywoman for the Leading Impact award HERE!
Applications will be judged by an outside panel made of anonymous industry professionals and dairy farmers. Winners will be notified in October. The nominee must be able to attend the Forward TogetHER National Conference from November 1 – 3, 2022 in Prior Lake, Minn. More information about the awards and nomination forms are available on DairyGirlNetwork.com. Nominations will close on Thursday, September 15, 2022, at midnight CST. Anyone can nominate a deserving dairywoman for recognition of her achievements. Self-nominations will not be accepted. All nominees should be an official member of the Dairy Girl Network. If they receive DGN emails, they are a member. If not a member, or if they need to register – It is quick, easy and free at DairyGirlNetwork.com/Join.
Bovine Baby Blues: Implications of Post Calving Inflammation
This webinar will be presented byJennifer Trout, DVM, Technical Service Consultant, AHV USA, on Friday, August 19th,2022 at 12:00 p.m. CST. Our August webinar is sponsored by AHV USA.
Webinar Summary: The presence of inflammation is a normal response to the bodily strain induced during calving. Yet the positive effects of inflammation can quickly become problematic if it lasts for an extended period, leading to a range of issues that ultimately impact your animal’s health. Dr. Jennifer Trout will explain how inflammation influences health, with a focus on fresh cow diseases, and an introduction to Quorum Sensing, a new way to fight bacteria.
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Dr. Jennifer Trout resides in Fallston, Maryland and works as a Technical Service Consultant for AHV USA. Prior to joining AHV, Dr. Trout was a Calf and Heifer Specialist with Cargill Animal Nutrition focusing on western large calf ranches. She worked in veterinary practice in California’s central valley, the panhandle of Texas, and most recently the pacific northwest. Dr. Trout also held field base technical service positions with Agri Labs and Pfizer Animal Health. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Trout is a third-generation dairy farmer, currently working alongside her father and her husband at their family dairy. She enjoys spending time with her five active kids, ranging from ages 13-21. In her minimal free time, Dr. Trout has an affinity for good cheese, quality Corgis and registered quarter horses.
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