Join fellow food system professionals for the PDPW Agricultural Professional Partnerships (APPs), an on-farm training designed exclusively for "non-farm" professionals with limited on-farm experience. 

The training will be held May 22-24, 2018, departing at 9 a.m. and returning at 5 p.m. to the Crowne Plaza Hotel - Madison, located at 4402 E. Washington Ave., Madison, WI 53704.  Transportation will be provided to and from each respective host farm.

Held on dairy farms throughout southern Wisconsin, our farmers open their barn doors to allow you a safe experience to explore their animal care practices, environmental stewardship techniques, employee management, and the economics of production agriculture.

Attendees will leave the training with:

• 20+ hours of hands-on, on-farm experience
• Enhanced knowledge of modern agriculture
• A comprehensive understanding of farm management practices and relevant acronyms
• Access to training resources and go-to experts
• Direct connection and relationship with host farm owners/managers
• Network of like-minded industry peers

Attendee registration includes on-farm experience, access to training experts and educational resources, lunch, snacks and refreshments each day, as well as the transportation to and from farm.

Enroll yourself or your team member today to better serve your dairy farm clients by increasing your professional credibility and understanding of a modern dairy business in a more meaningful, safe and knowledgeable manner.

Interested, but not sure your manager will approve the expense? The below support documents have been created to help articulate the "why" and ROI with your manager.

• Letter to Your Manager
• Benefits of Attendance
• Post-Training ROI Worksheet
• Additional Tips

To learn more about the PDPW APPs training or to contact PDPW call 800-947-7379 or email Amy Bonomie at abonomie@pdpw.org.

Managing a dairy business means knowing as much about the financial books as knowing about the cows.  Open to farmers and industry, reserve your seat for the upcoming Class of 2019 PDPW Financial Literacy for Dairy series by joining this waiting list.

This series is presented through multiple sessions from fall 2018 through spring of 2019.  This is your chance to learn, study and practice throughout the series.  The ojective is to learn at new levels, but also to apply what you're learning in your business.

PDPW will release the training location, trainers and offer registration to those on this waiting list first, then release to membership, and open to the public for enrollment.

In this 2018-19 series, level one and level two will be offered and students placed via assessment.  Space is limited to 30 attendees per level.  Additional information will be made available this summer.

The 2019 Managers Academy for Dairy Professionals is set for January 15-17, 2019. This executive-level three-day training brings together CEOs, dairy owners and managers, industry directors, processors, marketers and distributors.

Including both classroom and out-of-industry tours, attendees will grow their business and management acumen and raise the bar in the personal and professional development.

Tentative Agenda:

• 8:00 a.m. - Training begins (Tue., Jan. 15)
• 7:00 a.m. - 9 p.m. - Training Continues (Wed., Jan. 16)
• 3:30 p.m. - Training concludes (Thu., Jan. 17)

*Travel and lodging are the responsibility of the attendee.

Host city and training site will be determined in the coming months by the PDPW producer committee.  Information will be released as it becomes available.  Registration will open in September 2018.

A special thank you for our 2018 PDPW Managers Academy partners:

• Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health
• Progressive Dairyman
• Rabo AgriFinance
• Zinpro

For additional information on the 2018 Managers Academy, or the coming 2019 PDPW Managers Academy, please call PDPW at 800-947-7379 or email at mail@pdpw.org.

Past Managers Academy Programs:

• 2018 Program – Orlando, FL
• 2017 Program – San Diego, CA
• 2016 Program – San Antonio, TX
• 2015 Program – Charlotte, NC
• 2014 Program – Sacramento, CA

Future Managers Academy Dates:

• January 15-17, 2019
• January 14-16, 2020

Have you attended PDPW Business Conference in the past?  Thinking about attending in the future?  Take the opportunity to be exposed to your industry's leading experts and most demanded motivational speakers.  Make connections and capture the greatest innovations our industry has to offer. Take all of your learnings back to your farm to increase efficiencies and overall profitability.

PDPW's premier educational event is the place to share best practices, build relationships with your peers and continue to grow your farms professional portfolio.  You won't be disappointed.

Future Business Conference Dates:

• March 13-14, 2019
• March 18-19, 2020
• March 17-18, 2021
• March 16-17, 2022

Your PDPW Virtual Trade Show is a year-round benefit to both dairy farmers and industry leaders throughout the United States.  This value-added online resource can be viewed and updated throughout the year.  

For our farmers

Use the Virtual Trade Show as your go-to resource for information and solutions to your farming needs. Whether you're looking for the latest technology, the phone number of a company representative you met at the PDPW Business Conference Trade Show, or a list of a providers in a specific sector of the industry, this is your place to find it.

For our industry partners

Use the Virtual Trade Show as your company's storefront to the progressive and talented dairy-farmer base that is the membership of PDPW. Farmers look to the Virtual Trade Show for quick access to the most reputable and dedicated service and product providers in the industry. It takes just minutes to upload your sales team contact information, company profile and product, service and data pdfs. And then your prospects have all the details you want them to have so they can decide to choose you over your competitor.  

Sign me up!  

If your company is interested in being a part of the PDPW Virtual Trade Show, please contact us at 800-947-7379 or send an email to mail@pdpw.org to register and receive your link to access your profile.

If you are interested in purchasing a painting, please call 800-947-7379 to place your order Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm.

Sizes and prices are as listed below:

• Canvas – 30 X 22.5           $425
• Canvas – 24 X 18              $325
• Print – 30 X 22.5              $160
• Print – 24 X 18                 $135
• Print – 16 X 12                 $110

*Pricing includes shipping and handling.

Thank you to a group of active dairy farmers, past board members and board advisors for their generous purchase of the original oil painting which they purchased on behalf of Professional Dairy Producers. The painting is on display at PDPW headquarters.

To see more about the painting live auction, visit us on Facebook to watch.

Are you interested in making a difference for a student interested in pursuing a profession in the dairy and food industries?  Or, are you a student looking for that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge onto a dairy farm?  Now's the time!

The purpose of this program is to provide a platform and resource for college-level students to partner with an active dairy producer in order to participate in an educational, hands-on, on-farm professional experience. This program is limited to those interested in pursuing a profession in the dairy and food industries.

The internships are designed to be a win-win experience for both the host farm and student. This program is tailored to the needs of both student and farm owner / manager. Students should gain an array of experiences including business management, hands-on farm experience and involvement in special projects.

For additional information regarding the Enhanced Internship or to learn more about PDPW contact PDPW at mail@pdpw.org or by phone at 1-800-947-7379.

Dairy AdvanCE™ is your new online, one-stop shop for professional development in the dairy industry.  Find vetted, high-quality dairy education and training programs, workshops and accredited CE opportunities on a wide range of topics including animal care, human resources, financial management, environmental stewardship and more. All available from trusted education providers, you can track your upcoming and completed trainings and report your continuing education through your official transcript at dairyadvance.org, 

PDPW developed Dairy AdvanCE so that farmers have easy access to education that will position their businesses and the dairy brand for success. We seek the utmost in quality from our third-party education providers in training submission content and speaker expertise with assurance of non-promotional content. 

While PDPW developed Dairy AdvanCE for farmers, anyone in the dairy industry can subscribe, including allied industry professionals such as veterinarians, nutritionists, technicians, field and sales representatives, as well as food system, legal and public service professionals.

Dairy AdvanCE is free for dairy farmers, farm managers and on-farm team members. For all others, there is a $50 annual subscription fee. To learn more or subscribe to Dairy AdvanCE visit www.dairyadvance.org, email mail@dairyadvance.org, or call 800-947-7379.

You asked for it. We delivered. Sign up for your online webinar session today online or call PDPW at 800-947-7379! 

PDPW has launched the PDPW World Class Webinars Library - a collection of the greatest online ideas, solutions, and resources, and from your industry's leading experts, brought to one place by PDPW. 

• Business & Dairy Markets
• Calf Care
• Feed and Nutrition
• Human Resources
• Milk Quality
• Weather
• Special Edition Topics

Over the past 5 years, PDPW has executed online webinars that are made available for viewing at your convenience, as each session is recorded.  Never before available, the full library is now accessible for purchase. 

Please click on the "Webinar Library" button to review the 30+ webinars currently available, as well as make selection and purchase for your own personal viewing, or to use as a teaching tool at your next team meeting.

Note: All webinars are purchased on a per-computer basis, as each link is unique to the purchasing computer.

Our 2017-18 PDPW Educational Program & Event Calendar is established! We'll provide more than 74 days of education, over 100 expert speakers, and present 38 best-in-class trainings to thousands of our nation's dairy farmers! 

As dairy’s professional development organization, we reach our nation’s most forward-thinking, leading-edge dairy farmers:

• 1,750+ farm entities
• Thousands of dairy professionals
• 39 states
• 1.5+ million dairy cattle

A special thank you to our PDPW Mission, Corporate and Event Sponsors for ensuring adequate funding to build the best-in-class dairy education provided to our nation's dairy farmers.

National and event sponsorships are available.  To learn more about PDPW or to request our sponsorship guide, please contact Amy Bonomie at abonomie@pdpw.org or by phone at 800-947-7379.