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Grayhouse Farms, Inc. Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability Award Winner

In the latest BoviNews podcast episode we sit down with Jimmy Gray with Grayhouse Farms, Inc., a 2022 Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability Award Winner, to talk about their new facilities, why conservatorship and sustainability practices are such a high priority for their family, how they tell their story to their community and more! Listen on…

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Dairy Products Contest Fuels Innovation

Consumers love choices and new products. Innovative products featuring dairy as the star, in particular those boasting the calming effects of dairy are being sought out in a competition among college students. Rohit Kapoor is the  Vice President-Product Research at Dairy Management Inc. He shares how DMI is helping to fuel the innovation fire with…

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Episode 16 – Should Farmers Be Worried About The Dairy Case At The Grocery Store?

Tune in with our dairy farmer hosts, Indiana’s Jill Houin and California’s Erin Nutcher aka @ca_dairy_wife, as they talk with Mike Brown, Sr., category manager for Kroger, and Tim Cooley, chief operating officer for American Dairy Association North East, talk about the present state and future of the dairy case, why milk and alternatives are…

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Episode 14 – Do the Dietary Guidelines Help or Hurt Dairy? You May Be Surprised.

Listen in with our dairy farmer hosts, New York’s Audrey Donahoe and Georgia’s Jennifer Glover, as they talk with registered dietitians Katie Brown, Senior Vice President at National Dairy Council, and Abigail Copenhaver of Farmstead Nutrition & Consulting about what the dietary guidelines are, how they evolve, who follows them and how that affects dairy. To learn more…

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Meet the dairy farmers who handed the milk to the 2022 Indy 500 winning driver

On the latest episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, join Progressive Dairy Editor Kimmi Devaney as she talks with Tim Haynes and Kerry Estes, who are the two Indiana dairy farmers that recently handed the famous bottle of milk to the winning driver of the 2022 Indianapolis 500.  Milk has long been the drink of choice for winners of…

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Sharing the Dairy Sustainability Story with Consumers

June is Dairy Month and we’re looking at sustainability from farm to table. Industry experts Jamie Jonker, National Milk Producers Federation, Andy Harig, Food Marketing Institute, and Tara Vander Dussen, environmental scientist and dairywoman discuss how we can engage from farm to fork and bring consumers with us on the sustainability journey. Merck Animal Health

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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Dairy’s sustainability story from recycling water to fueling cars

Between cows’ burps and manure and their land, water and feed requirements, the dairy industry is often blamed for adding substantial greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and contributing to monocropping, soil degradation and water pollution. Checkoff sustainability leader Karen Scanlon joined the Soup-to-Nuts podcast to share how the dairy industry is working to continue reducing its…

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Inside Look at the Life of a Dairy Farmer

Shelby Beason (Co-Owner/Operator – Beason Family Farm in Philadelphia) with an inside look at the day-to-day life of a dairy farmer, and Dr. Lara Godbille (Director – U.S. Navy Seabee Museum) gives you all the info on the 80th Birthday of the Seabees! Listen to it on Apple Podcasts.

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Episode 13 – Remember Got Milk? Where Are Dairy Ads Now?

Listen in with our dairy farmer hosts, Virginia’s Brittany Jones (@richlandsdairy) and New York’s Kathryn Bosley (@cow_nerd), as they talk with Suzanne Fanning, SVP from Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, CMO for Wisconsin Cheese, and Jeff McCrory, Strategy for Mischief USA, about how traditional marketing and advertising has changed over recent years and what they are…

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Episode 11 – How do you get consumers to trust you? Farmers talk about what works.

In this episode of Your Dairy Checkoff Podcast, dairy farmer hosts, Connecticut’s Amanda Freund (@cowpots) and Washington’s Austin Allred (@royalfamilyfarming), as they have a conversation with dairy farmers, New Mexico’s Tara Vander Dussen (@taravanderdussen) and Kansas’s Melissa Hildebrand Reed (@hildebrandfarmsdairy), about how they share their story with consumers in real life ways that build trust…

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