Fantastic Line up to Take the Stage at the 2021 MILK Business Conference
The 18th Annual MILK Business Conference has a great line-up of speakers and sessions to help dairy producers capitalize on and further develop their strengths to work for them. Held at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, the MILK Business Conference is like no other dairy conference.
Newly announced to the conference line-up, includes nationally recognized business expert, Gene Marks, who is also a columnist, author and small business owner. He writes for several national outlets, including Forbes, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Fox Business and regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC. Marks will take the stage and intermix with a great panel.
Next, The International Marketplace – Exports Today and Winning in the Future will include an expert panel of William Loux, director of Global Trade Analysis, USDEC; Amy Wagner, executive vice president, Global Innovations Partnerships, Dairy Management Inc., and Missouri dairy producer, Alex Peterson, chair of National Dairy Board. This panel will be moderated by Tyne Morgan, host of U.S. Farm Report.
Other featured sessions this year include:
Five Mega Trends in 2022 and Beyond
Speaker: Aidan Connolly, Cainthus
Highlighting the megatrends to help producers increasingly recognize their future revenue may go beyond the traditional focus of just looking at the milk price.
How to Become the Employer of Choice
Speakers: Dr. Stan Moore, Michigan State University; Roger Herrera, Ahlem Farms, Hilmar, Calif.
Tackling labor on the farm in terms of attracting, retaining, and handling labor issues.
Beef on Dairy: A Traceability Story
Speakers: Amanda Ararta, Kansas Dairy Development; Ryan Junio, Four J Jerseys, Pixley, Calif.
Turning Manure into Money
Speaker: Newtrient and American Biogas Council
Weighing out options and preparing dairy for future alternative profit centers, such as renewable energy. Review and evaluate the type of technology to consider, the economics, questions to ask energy and tech vendors and so much more.
A Candid Conversation About Mental Health
Speaker: Ted Mathews, the go-to counselor for farmers for decades shares his perspective on addressing mental health. Also, Wisconsin dairy farmer, Randy Roecker shares his mental health struggle – talking about the devastating impact it had on his dairy operation and to his family life - and how he managed to dig out of the trenches of it all.
How Will You Feed Your Cows in the Future?
Speaker: Dennis Hancock, Director of U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, USDA.
Sharing how artificial intelligence will help play a role in how cows are fed in the future and more.
Walt Coleman, Longest serving Referee in NFL history shares his stories!
Coleman served as a line judge for the first six seasons before being promoted to referee at the start of the 1995 NFL season. Over his NFL career, he has worked two conference championship games (1998 and 2003). Coleman resides in Little Rock, Arkansas and is a fifth-generation family operator of Coleman Dairy.
An incredible line-up of speakers and sessions will address that dairy’s greatest asset in 2035 might not be their cows. Plus, the National Rodeo Finals begins right when our conference is done. So, we invite you to stick around. Also, at $44, plus resort fee and tax, block room rates are a bargain at $44. That rate expires Thursday, October 28.
