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This week we welcome our friend and consultant, Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND, back to the program to talk a bit more about the work she's and the WUD legislative team have been doing on the Nutrition front in Sacramento. Amy covers a few of the bills we've been working hard on and what her hopes are for the rest of session and into 2023.  In addition to Amy, Tiffany LaMendola, our contract eco...

This week's episode kicks off with a market update, brought to us by our Economist, Tiffany LaMendola, of Blimling/ever.ag, followed by a sit-down interview Darby Pedrozo had with Andrew Gustafson, program manager for the Agriculture Incentive Program at TRC.  For More Information on how to connect with TRC: https://agenergysavings.com/

This week we welcome Tiffany LaMendola, WUD's contract economist with Blimling/Ever. Ag to give us a run-down of this past week's roller-coaster ride in the dairy markets, after which, we're re-joined by Tiffany and  WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh  to chat about drought relief programs.  For More Information Pasture, Range, Forage Program: https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/Policy-and-Procedure/Insurance-Plans/...

This week we bring you a short & sweet episode as we roll into the holiday weekend, including a market update with our economist Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling/ever.ag & a diesel truck update with Paul Sousa, WUD’s Director of Environmental & Regulatory Affairs. We wish all of our members a Happy & Safe Fourth of July!

This week we are joined by Daryl Maas, Chief Executive Officer with our industry partner MAAS Energy Works to discuss digesters and the current market. Tiffany LaMendola at Blimling/Ever. Ag joins us for our weekly market update to round out the episode!

This week we sit down with Giovanni Cavaletto of Morningstar Tomatoes and WUD member Sean Kelley of the Stevinson Ranch to discuss the ins, outs and benefits of adding Tomatoes to a dairy's crop portfolio. We're also joined by Kathleen Wolfley of Blimling/Ever.ag for this week's Market Update.  For more information on engaging with Morningstar, please email: info@morningstarco.com or visit: https:...

This week we welcome our partners at Blimling/Ever. Ag for a market update, and Darby sits down with Connie Kuber of Connor Agriscience to discuss her history in the industry and the Dairy Girl Network. To learn more about the Dairy Girl Network visit www.dairygirlnetwork.com or email Connie at connie@connoragriscience.com

This week we welcome back Tiffany LaMendola, our contract Economist with Blimling/Ever. Ag for a market update, and we re-share a sit-down interview with WUD Board member Cody Nicholson-Stratton from June of 2020.  To learn more about the Foggy Bottoms Boys: https://www.foggybottomsboys.com/

This week we hear from Director of Environmental affairs, Paul Sousa with an update from last week’s board meeting, and Darby has a sit-down with Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux about the recent uptick in Rural Crime.  

This week we have a market update with Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist with Blimling/Ever. Ag, after which we visit with Paul Sousa, WUD Director of Environmental Affairs, for a re-cap of the AMMP grant period following last week's deadline. We wrap with a sit down with Anja Raudabaugh, WUD CEO, who shares an update from Sacramento as the Governor's May budget revise plan is revealed. 

This week we welcome a new addition to the WUD Team, Amy Myrdal Miller; to connect with Amy, or any member of the WUD team, email: info@wudairies.com

This week we bring you a market update from Tiffany LaMendola, our economist of Blimling and we are excited to share our sit-down with Veronique Lagrange of the newly minted California Dairy Innovation Center. 

This week we share a market update brought to us by Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist with Blimling/Ever. Ag, and an update from Sacramento with WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh, including an exciting announcement about WUD's legislative team. We wrap with some important labor reminders from Darby in this week's "Field Rep Corner". 

This week, in addition to a very informative Market Update, we re-run our CalSavers Webinar from early March to help inform producers ahead of the looming June deadline. For more info on CalSavers, visit: https://www.calsavers.com

This week we begin our episode with a market update brought to us by our economist Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling & Associates followed by a chat with Dr. Michael Payne-Veterinarian at UCD’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Director of CDQAP-about dairy safety and crime prevention. We wrap up this week’s episode with a legislative update from WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh. For more information on dairy...

This week's episode is a replay of The Dairy Download's recent episode, Let's Talk Dairy Associations .  From “America’s Dairyland” to America’s largest dairy producing state, regional dairy associations are convening dairy producers and processors to confront some of today’s largest challenges. On the latest episode of The Dairy Download, we speak to two representatives from dairy assoc...

This week we welcome Kathleen Wolfley of Blimling and Associates with our Market Update, Paul Sousa joins us for a recap of this week's ARB Workshop regarding dairies, and our labor partner, Attorney Anthony Raimondo of Raimondo Miller provides a labor law update for our members.   For more information about the services offered by Raimondo Miller, visit: https://www.raimondomiller.com/

This week we kick things off with a market update brought to us by our economist Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling & Associates, after which we welcome back to Seen & Herd, Louis Borba, in his new role as WUD's board President. Louis shares with us a little bit about his family dairy in the Turlock/Hilmar area and speaks on his hopes for WUD in the coming year. We wrap the podcast with an upda...

This week, due to an uptick in member questions regarding rural crime and activist issues, we re-run our interview from October of 2021 with David Gosvener - Rural Crimes Investigator Tulare County District Attorney’s Office and Don Stuhmer of the San Joaquin County Sherrif’s Office to share with us about Rural Crime School, how their agencies deal with issues affecting our rural counties, and wha...

This week, in addition to our market update with Economist Tiffany LaMendola, we welcome Dr. Kevin Hoogendoorn to the podcast to share a little bit about his newly developed and very popular Dairy Markets App, Zisk . Paul Sousa stops by for an Environmental/Regulatory update, and Rashell Segura shares a reminder about the service provided to members through LUC.  For more information about Zi...

This week we are re-running our recent CalSavers webinar, presented by Jonathan Hererra of the CalSavers Team. We'll return with our regular content next week, including a market update that has a few words on how the situation in Eastern Europe may be affecting US Dairy. 

This week's episode brings us a market update with Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist of Blimling and Assoc. plus a sit down with WUD's director of environmental and regulatory affairs, Paul Sousa, who shares information with us about Tri-Colored Blackbird nesting season and the quickly approaching AMMP grant period.  For more information about Tri-Colored Blackbirds or AMMP, you can reach...

This week Kathleen Wolfley with Blimling and Ass. joins us with the Market Update, then we sit down with WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh to chat about AB 558 and what WUD has been doing in Sacramento over the past few weeks to see that it is amended.  For more information or to be involved in our lobbying efforts, email Anja about our PAC at anja@wudairies.com. 

This week, due to our stint at the World Ag Expo, we're sharing a re-run of our interview last April with Tony Lopes of Sustainibeef. We'll return with  regular content next week!

Listen in for a special World Ag Expo 2022 episode of Seen & Herd! We are joined by some of our breakout session presenters at World Ag Expo 2022 who share a brief overview of their session, as well as a market update from economía Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling & Associates. We hope to see you at World Ag Expo 2022!