2020 IDP Regional Meetings

Indiana Dairy Producers (IDP), is once again working to bring you up-to-date information for the Indiana dairy industry. 
 
We are planning some great topics for you this year that applies to everyone... Come learn with us! 
 
Learn how to better manage your dairy from Protection to Profitability-learning the 4 P's to success, better managing your current market situation, and feeding and managing for components-more money in your milk. 

Our goal is to always put together a program that will allow you to go back home and get better. Come join us for a day of opportunity!

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Speaker Highlight

Molly Fenske

Senior Associate

K Coe Isom Food & Ag

Molly Fenske is a Senior Associate providing animal agriculture with sustainable solutions by working with agribusinesses to identify opportunities for improvement and protect their farming and ranching activities. She has a passion for helping farmers do what they do best and finding ways to enhance their productivity.

Molly specializes in on-farm analyses, conducting bilingual (Spanish/English) employee trainings around animal welfare, managing client challenges and delivering new solutions.  She consults with agribusinesses on K·Coe Isom’s Cultivate e-learning program, an online educational training, testing, and tracking program, designed specifically to help producers protect their operations and build farm culture.   

Molly has a robust background in the area of animal care and is adept at working with dairy operations. She leads the National Milk Producers Federation FARM Animal Care program Evaluator trainings.

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Speaker Highlight

Stacy Nichols, MS PAS

Dairy Technical Specialist

Vita Plus Corporation

Stacy Nichols is a Vita Plus dairy technical specialist.  He grew up in northwest Illinois and finished high school in northeast Georgia.  He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in dairy science from the University of Georgia.  Nichols was the herdsman at Mississippi State University’s Bearden Dairy Research Center from 1994 to 1996.  He then returned to Georgia as the herdsman on a private 350-cow dairy.  Since 1997, he has been involved in the dairy feed industry on a local, national and global level.  Nichols has considerable experience in transition cow management, nutritional modeling and amino acid formulation. He and his wife, Melissa, have eight children and reside in northwest Indiana.