Completed Project Report

Reducing barriers to modernize dairy operations through addressing production, legal, environmental, and public relations risks.

  • Award Amount: $30,000
  • Regional Center: North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center
  • Grant Program: 2006 Competitive Grant Program
  • Project Director: Kevin Bernhardt
  • Email: bernhark@uwplatt.edu
  • Organization: University of Wisconsin - Platteville

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Project Overview

Due to aging or out-of-date facilities, potential farm transition, economic viability, or new environmental regulations, many dairy producers in the southwest Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, and northwest Illinois region face a crossroads to modernize their business and operations or exit the industry. For those who choose to modernize, they face a variety of production, legal, environmental, human health and public relations risks.

For three years a coalition of private and public organizations under the name of the Regional Dairy Modernization Task Force has coordinated educational events and one-one follow up with the mission of being a catalyst for dairy producers in the region to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to make and implement a modernization decision. This project will fund a series of ten on-farm workshops titled “Pathways to Success”.

Number of Participants: 280

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