53 | Multi-Site Dairy Management: Getting a New Team On Board with Bridget Schilling, Schilling Farms

If buying or leasing a turn-key dairy at another location is part of your business strategy, this episode is for you.

The real question is this: How do you walk into an existing dairy and its culture, and recreate it to be what YOU need it to be, so that the new site and the new team are engaged and motivated to hit your benchmarks and goals?

Schilling Farms was a high-performing herd, milking 600 cows in Darlington, Wis., when the opportunity came up two years ago to buy a 1,500-cow site, 40 miles away from the home farm. With it, came a new team and an old culture.

Bridget Schilling joins us to share the key tactics from her professional management experience in nursing that have made all the difference with getting the new crew transitioned, so that Schilling Farms can operate at the level of excellence they are known for.

Find out how she:

• Built trust in a new role, with a new team

• The key questions she asks employees

• What she does every four months makes all the difference

Listen to this episode with Bridget Schilling of Schilling Farms

Thanks to our Episode Sponsor: Adisseo

This episode is sponsored by Adisseo, a global leader in animal nutrition and premium provider of rumen-protected methionine for dairy producers who want to capture the power of components and maintain the health of their high-performing herds.

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