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.
May 28, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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.
May 21, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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
May 14, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 19
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.
May 07, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 18
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".
Apr 30, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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
Apr 23, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 16
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 safety, Dr. Payne’s mentioned resources are included below: https://files.constantcontact.com/72...
Apr 16, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 15
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 associations in Wisconsin and California about the trends and policies impacting dairy production and processing in ...
Apr 09, 2022•36 min
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/
Apr 02, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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 update from Paul Sousa about some important happenings at the California Air Resources Board this week (...
Mar 26, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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 what producers can do to be prepared for the potential of crime in their neighborhoods. We'll be back n...
Mar 19, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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 Zisk, click HERE For more information about LUC, click HERE...
Mar 12, 2022•31 min
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.
Mar 05, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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 Paul via email at paul@wudairies.com
Feb 26, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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.
Feb 19, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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!
Feb 12, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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!
Feb 05, 2022•11 min•Season 3Ep. 5
This week, in addition to our market report with Tiffany LaMendola, we are joined by Paul Sousa, Director of Environmental & Regulatory Affairs, for a comprehensive update on environmental regulations dairy producers should be keeping an eye on.
Jan 29, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Today’s episode features a market update with Tiffany LaMendola, our economist with Blimling & Associates, followed by a COVID-19 labor law update in which Darby sits down with Kevin Piercy of Raimondo & Associates.
Jan 22, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This week Melissa and Paul Sousa (WUD Director of Environmental Affairs) are joined by dairyman Dave Renner in a special segment to discuss Dave’s CDFA funded AMMP project. Tiffany LaMendola also joins us to share another market update rounding out the second week of the new year.
Jan 15, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Happy 2022! This week we hit the ground running; Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist with Blimling & Associates brings us our first market update of the year, followed by Labor Attorney Anthony Raimondo, who brings our listeners an update on the slurry of Labor Law changes that took affect this month.
Jan 08, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This week we have Tiffany LaMendola, our economist of Blimling & Assoc. back with your holiday market update, Jennifer Giambroni of the California Milk Advisory Board sits down with Melissa to chat about the recent Real California Milk Excelerator competition finals and gives us a few tips on donation of dairy products this holiday season, and to wrap up this episode and our podcasting year, Darby and Melissa sit down with Maureen Lemos a dairy farmer, photographer and author of Lockwood III...
Dec 18, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 49
This week Paul Sousa brings us two important segments for the podcast; in lieu of a market update which Paul gives a quick update about letters which went out to Central Valley Dairy Produces this past week regarding how each parcel they own or lease is regulated. We follow that with a sit down discussion between Paul and our partners Aysha Massell and Ryan Flaherty of Sustainable Conservation regarding their recently launched groundwater recharge program and how interested farmers can implement...
Dec 11, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 48
This week's episode kicks off with a market update from our contract-economist, Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling and Associates. We follow the market update with, our California's Director of Dairy Sustainability, Aubrey Bettencourt, who sat down last week with Geoff Vanden Heuvel of the More Water Now Initiative.
Dec 04, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 47
This week we air a special, early episode of Seen & Herd. We're thankful to our partners at California Cattlemen's Association who've graciously allowed us to re-run an episode of their podcast, The Sorting Pen , featuring Katie Roberti's interview with Dave Daley, chairman of the California Cattle Council , sharing how the Cattle Council has represented California Dairy & Cattle Producers in 2021. We wrap with a message of gratitude from WUD's staff to our valued members and industry pa...
Nov 25, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 46
This week we are joined by Paul Sousa, WUD Director of Environmental Affairs for an update on all things environmental and regulatory going on in California. For more information on any of the updates you heard today, reach out to Paul at paul@wudairies.com
Nov 20, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Today we bring you a segment on the PRF Program from our partners at Blimling and Anja & Aubrey sit down to discuss the Land Flex Program.
Nov 13, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Today we bring you an episode all about water featuring WUD CEO Anja Raudabaugh and guest member Joe Alamo. Listen in for that along with the weekly market update with our Economist Tiffany LaMendola.
Nov 06, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Blimling Economist Tiffany LaMendola and bring us this week’s episode, a “Top 5 in 15 minutes” of what’s happening in the dairy markets for the month ending this week. For more information on the services provided by Blimling: www.blimling.com To reach out to Tiffany: tlamendola@blimling.com
Oct 30, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 42
This week we visit 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 what producers can do to be prepared for the potential of crime in their neighborhoods. In addition, Tiffany brings us this week's market update and Melissa shares a quick reminder for producers in the midst of Californi...
Oct 23, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 41