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This week, as per usual, we kick off with Tiffany LaMendola, WUD's contract economist with Blimling, as she brings us a bit more volatile market update than we'd like to see in the early part of the year. Join us next week on Thursday for Tiffany's Virtual Kitchen Table Meeting Market Update.  Following Tiffany, Darby and Melissa chat with Ashley Rosales, RDN and Program Director of Nutrition Scie...

It's the second week of January  and we're back with another update-heavy episode! Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist with Blimling joins us for a market update, Tom Barcellos, past WUD Board Member  discusses his new role as the California Beef Council chair and Beef Council's priorities for 2021, Anja Raudabaugh, WUD CEO brings us the latest on the California Quota program, and we share P...

Happy 2021 listeners! We're so glad to be back with an action-packed episode to kick off the new year. Today we cover a TON of housekeeping/updates that run the gambit of topics...We kick off with our contract economist, Tiffany LaMendola, serving up this weeks market update, we hear from WUD Board President Devin Gioletti with some news about the Associations direction for the year, Paul Sousa br...

This week's episode, our last of 2020 features a market update with Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist of Blimling. Anja Raudabaugh joins us to share the exciting rollout of a recent project WUD partnered on with the California Cattle Council and California Cattlemen's, and we are joined by Anthony Raimondo and his associate, Kevin Piercy, of Raimondo and Associates to remind and update dai...

This week's abridged episode features a market update with WUD's consulting economist, Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling, a Truck Rule update with Paul Sousa and a re-run of WUD's Virtual Kitchen Table Meeting this week, which featured DMI/US Center for Dairy Innovation Staff briefing producers on the Net Zero Initiative. Please note: There was a brief hiccup in recording and the first 6-7 min of DMI'...

We hear a market update from Tiffany LaMendola, WUD’s contact economist with Blimling, an update on LUC from Rashell Echeveste and we re-run this weeks’ Virtual Kitchen Table Meeting, which featured Kevin Piercy, an an attorney with Raimondo & Associates, who provides an update on all things COVID-19 that employers should know.

Happy Thanksgiving from Western United Dairies

This week's abridged episode features our market update with Blimling Contract Economist, Tiffany LaMendola, an environmental update with Paul Sousa, WUD's Director of Environmental Affairs, and the much-anticipated reveal of the CMAB/VentureFuel Snackcelerator Winner with CMAB Director of Communications, Jennifer Giambroni, after last night's exciting final round!

This week's podcast update features a market report with our contract economist, Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling and a labor update with our esteemed labor attorney Anthony Raimondo of Raimondo & Associates. Full episodes will resume in January!

This week kicks off our "abridged" version of the podcast, which will provide basic updates through the holidays. This week we our economist, Tiffany LaMendola shares what's up and what's not in dairy markets, Rashell Segura gives us a rundown from LUC and Anja Raudabaugh brings us an update on the 2020 elections*.  *Results mentioned are from Thursday, 11/5, when about 72% of the California ballo...

We kick off week 30 with a little news about our podcast plans for the end of 2020, including a slightly abridged weekly offering through the end of December.  Next up is a market update from our amazing Blimling economist Tiffany LaMenodola, followed by some news from the environmental desk with Paul Sousa.  Our special guest this week is Carrie Mess, or Dairy Carrie, Wisconsin Dairy Farmer and A...

We are pleased to kick off this week's episode by welcoming WUD's new contract economist, Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling! Tiffany brings us this week's market update, noting that for another consecutive week, cheese is running the show in dairy markets.   We follow Tiffany's market news with a political check-in with WUD's CEO Anja Raudabaugh, who covers early voting, the situation with Prop 15, an...

This week we bid farewell to our economist and friend, Annie AcMoody, who will be leaving WUD after 10 years of service to CA dairy producers. We send Annie off with one last Market update plus messages and well wishes from producers and friends. To round out the week, Paul Sousa joins Melissa for a little update/reminder about fall water quality preparations, and Darby brings us some good news ab...

This week we hear from Economist Annie AcMoody with our weekly market update, which is once again headed in a positive direction.  CEO Anja Raudabaugh, joins us for an update on WUD and the changes we're tackling this fall, Rashell Segura brings us a roundup from the world of LUC, and Darby and Melissa sit down for a lighthearted conversation with 4th generation dairyman and Cal Poly lecturer Rich...

Episode 26 brings us a positive market report from all-star economist Annie AcMoody complete with a round-up of this week's CDFA hearing. We get a drop-in from Tony Raimondo with a COVID-19 labor update, and we round out the episode with our friend and member, Tessa Hall, who candidly shares about the legal battle her family dairy has been in with the city of Corcoran for the past 5 years. For res...

Episode 25 is full of late-summer updates for producers to absorb while they put in tractor hours harvesting, fertilizing and planting this weekend. Annie brings us a robust market update, complete with some quota/CDFA hearing news, we chat with Cody Nicholson-Stratton, WUD board member and California Cattle Council (CCC) Vice-Chair, to update listeners on what CCC has been up to this summer, and...

This week we start, as is tradition, with a market update from the amazing Annie AcMoody, who also brings us a last minuet, very exciting announcement from USDA regarding the renewal of the CFAP program. Annie's good news is followed by a quick roundup from this week's board meeting with WUD Board President Devin Gioletti, special guest Dr. Michael Payne from UC Davis/CDQAP joins us with some some...

An episode jam-packed with information for producers. Today we're joined by co-host extraordinaire, Annie AcMoody. In addition to helping carry the torch this week, Annie brings us an update from Chrurchill Downs and the dairy markets, Paul Sousa provides info on lagoon issues in Merced County, Anja gives us the 4-1-1 on Prop 15 and WUD's involvement in the issue, and Dairyman/Volunteer Firefighte...

WUD economist Annie AcMoody brings us this weeks' Market Update, Jason Bryant, director of Legislative Affairs, fills us in on the end of the 2020 legislative session, Rashell Segura gives us the run-down on what's up with LUC. We round out this week's episode with WUD member John Bucher of Healdsburg, CA who has been in the red zone of California's wildfire situation for the past 4 fire seasons. 

We kick of Episode 21 with a PRB update and market report from Annie AcMoody, Paul Sousa shares a special alert for producers who are dealing with repercussions of last weeks' heat wave, and this week we switch up our content a bit with special guests Christine Forster and Chris DiGiovanni of PG&E for  a long-form discussion on the many programs PG&E offers to their agriculture customers, specific...

This week's episode features our industry partner and friend Denise Mullinax with an update from CDRF and CDQAP, Annie joins us for the latest on the markets and California's quota system, and Melissa and Darby talk farmer mental health amid one of the most stressful weeks California Dairymen have faced in 2020 (and that's saying something!). 

We have a full episode to round out this HOT week in California! Annie checks in with a market update and some PPD news, Anja brings us some good news out of Sacramento this week with the advance of AB 890, the defeat of AB 2959, and gives us the latest update on the chess game that is California Quota, we hear from member and delegate Zach Cahill of Cahill Dairy in Ferndale, and we round out the...

A little bit of a light week for a change! Annie AcMoody brings us up to date on all the pieces of the Quota puzzle, plus delivers a bit more of a relaxed market update this week. Paul Sousa joins Melissa for a reminder on fall preparation best management practices, and Rashell has an update from LUC. We wrap this week with a common labor question we’ve been getting.

We're pleased to welcome Dr. Frank Mitloehner, the GHG Guru, to the show. Paul and Melissa chat with Dr. Mitloehner about his past, current and future work and how dairymen can engage with him on the important climate research that he and the UC Davis CLEAR Center are working on.  Links to Dr. Mitloehner's work are below.  Before we chat with Dr. Mitloehner, we get an update from Annie on all of t...

Our economist, Annie AcMoody, offers a webinar-based briefing on the June PPD & answers member questions as to how the California FMMO works. The presentation was accompanied by a power point via webinar; if listeners need access to the power point or have questions we welcome inquiries to annie@wudairies.com.