Seen & Herd

This week Blimling and Assoc. shares their recent webinar: Grain and feed.... in leiu of our weekly Market Update. We follow that up with a conversation with WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh regarding methane, state budgets, and what all of that means for dairy producers. 

This week our Economist Tiffany LaMendola with Blimling brings us a market update, Paul Sousa, WUD’s director of Environmental Affairs share an update from the Central Valley Water Board, and we re-run our recent webinar: Dairy Sustainability, What Do Californian’s Think.

Tiffany LaMendola, our Economist of Blimling & Assoc.  brings us a Top 5 in the Dairy Markets for a change of pace in our weekly Market Update. This can't-miss segment highlights what producers and industry folks should be watching in the Dairy markets over the coming months.  We follow the market update with a re-run of our Labor Webinar with long-time Labor Attorney and WUD pa...

This week we're joined by Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling for a market update and Bill Schiek of the Dairy Institute of California for a discussion about the importance of the Standards of Identity and how a recent CA ruling may have an impact on the definition of Dairy.  To learn more about the Dairy Institute: https://dairyinstitute.org/ For Drought Resources: https://westernuniteddairies.com/drou...

This week we bring you a market update with our Economist Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling, followed by a California Water update with Dairy Industry Director of Sustainability, Aubrey Bettencourt.  For more information on Drought Resources: https://westernuniteddairies.com/drought/ To contact Aubrey Bettencourt with questions or for water project assistance: aubrey@wudairies.com

This week we share a Market Update with our Economist Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling, Paul Sousa joins us to update members on a paperwork issue that may arise in the Central Valley water board Region, and Devin Gioletti, WUD's Board President sits down to discuss the ARB issue and what it means for California Dairy Families.  For more assistance or information regarding environmental issues:...

This week we hear about WUD’s Upcoming Dairy Leaders program and share the final segment of our recent USDA Drought Services Webinar featuring Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) Ryan Mortensen. For more information about the opportunities from RMA: https://www.rma.usda.gov

This week's episode features another segment from our USDA Drought Resources Webinar on July 15th, this time showcasing the programs of the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). We also have Tiffany LaMendola with our weekly Market Report, Anja Raudabaugh, WUD CEO sits down with Darby to continue the SB 1383 conversation we started with Paul Sousa Last week, and we debut a new CA Dairy rad...

This week's episode is chuck-full of updates for producers. Tiffany LaMendola, our economist with Blimling & Ass. brings us the weekly market report, Paul Sousa shares an update about CA's progress toward SB1383's deliverables, Rachele reminds us that LUC is back in action for the summer, and we run a segment from this week's USDA Drought Resources webinar which covers the programs offered to prod...

We’re back! This weeks’ episode kicks off with a market update brought to us by Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling & Associates. We follow Tiffany with an update on the QIP Referendum from WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh, and we round out the episode with a re-run of our meet & greet with new Dairy Industry Director of Sustainability, Aubrey Bettencourt. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for some drought fu...

This week our steadfast economist, Tiffany LaMendola brings us the market update, Anja Raudabaugh joins for news from the CEO, and Darby sits down with Daryl Maas of Mass Energy to visit about their recent Award from the US Dairy Innovation Center and how their work with California Dairies is bringing value to our state!

This week Kathleen Wolfley of Blimling brings us a Dairy Market update and Melissa sits down with Director Veronique Lagrange of the newly formed California Dairy Innovation Center to discuss the mission of the organization and how they hope to develop and foster important market relationships for California Dairy in the coming years. 

Today's episode is action packed with good information for California dairy producers. We kick off with Tiffany LaMendola, our amazing contract economist with a market update. Nic DeCastro of LandTrust joins us to talk about a unique opportunity for California ag producers, and we wrap with an introduction to WUD's newest team member, Aubrey Bettencourt, our Director of Sustainability.  For l...

Today's episode kicks off with a a few reminders for dairy producers about the recent QIP referendum, followed by an update from the California Cattle Council's Justin Oldfield, and a special message for Dairy Producers as we welcome June as National Dairy Month! To Learn More about WUD's Drought Campaign: https://greencowca.com/ For more information on the Cattle Council: https://calcattlecouncil...

Today we have our market update with Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling, and we are joined by Paul Sousa with an update on...... and we wrap the episode by sitting down with Anja Raudabaugh and Dino Giacomazzi of United Dairy Families of California (UDFC) who shares an update/reminder about the Quota Implementation Plan Referendum and digs into details about the process, how it started, and where the o...

This week's episode features Tiffany LaMendola, WUD's contract Economist of Blimling & Associates, with a market update. WUD Board President Devin Gioletti joins Darby with an update from our May Board of Directors Meeting. Melissa is joined by Denise Mullinax of the California Dairy Research Foundation (CDRF) for a chat about drought,  how dairies have become more water and resource efficient ove...

In addition to our weekly market update with Tiffany LaMendola, today we are joined by Santa Rosa Dairy Producer Jennifer Beretta who shares about her farm, the exciting and innovative projects their working on to reduce methane and increase soil health, and how their family dairy shares the story of agriculture to groups in their community and beyond. 

This week we bring listeners a dairy market update with our Contract Economist of Blimling, Tiffany LaMendola. In preparation for all of the "Ag-vocating" we're going to be doing during Dairy month in June, we re-share an interview with Tyler Ribeiro of Rib-Arrow Dairy (and WUD Board Member) and Jennifer Giambroni of CMAB talking about the importance of dairy producers presence on Social Media, an...

Today’s episode is all about the updates! Tiffany LaMendola joins us with a market update, CEO Anja Raudabaugh shares what WUD’s Leg Affairs Team has been tackling in Sacramento, and Rashell Echesveste brings us some news from Lecheros Unidos de California.

Happy Earth Week! This week's episode features a re-run of the podcast we did with Dr. Frank Mitloehner last July with a message about all of the climate benefits cattle can and do provide. In addition, we have Tiffany LaMendola with the market update and WUD President Devin Gioletti joins us for a little Earth Day message from our board.  For More information on Dr. Mitloehner' s work: https...

This week we kick off with our market update,  a re-run of our Virtual Kitchen Table Market Update with Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist with Blimling and Associates and Paul Sousa joins us to follow that up with an environmental update, which focuses in on issues happening in the Central Valley Regional Water Board.  Following those updates we are joined by dairy producer Jolynn McClella...

This week Tiffany LaMendola delivers our weekly market update date and Darby sits down with Tony Lopes of Sustainibeef to discuss his growing business and what it’s like to be a dairy producer in 2021. For more info check out https://sustainibeef.com/

Today we skip the full market update, but share some quick info about upcoming DMC payments. Rashell Escheveste brings us an update about LUC, Melissa and Darby sit down with Cesar Vargas, of Raimondo and Associates newly launched WUD Partnership, Western United Human Resource Services and we wrap with a re-run of Anja's weekly Virtual Kitchen Table Meeting: Water Rending and the Recall.  Have a B...

This week's episode is chock full of updates for our CA dairy producers as we roll into spring! We kick off with Tiffany LaMendola's market update, Paul Sousa joins us for a fill-in on the NRCS front as well as a briefing on the Tri-colored blackbird situation, and we wrap the episode with Kevin Piercy of Raimondo and Associates as he updates members on the newest COVID-19 regulations that employe...

Week 11 kicks off with our market update, presented by Katie Burgess of Blimling, sitting in for Tiffany LaMendola this week. We follow that up with a sit-down between Anja Raudabaugh, Paul Sousa and our industry partner, Tyler Bennett of Bennett Environmental who shares about their company's work in the methane digester space and how they address methane digestion hand in hand with water quality...