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Peggy Coffeen from the Uplevel Dairy podcast will be one of the featured keynote speakers and plans to kick off the Dairy Summit by sharing what’s exciting about dairy’s future. For the past 15 years, Coffeen has been sitting down with dairy farmers across the country to tell their stories as a dairy magazine editor and podcast host. She noticed as dairies grew, owners and managers struggled to make the transition from managing cows to managing people and business. After sitting across the table in farm offices and shoulder-to-shoulder with producers at conferences and noticing this challenge, Coffeen was driven to offer content that is specific to the needs of competitive, successful dairy owners, managers and their most trusted advisors.

In addition to Coffeen, there will be several other keynote speakers to help attendees come together and re-focus, re-energize, and re-imagine what their futures in dairy might look like. There will be multiple breakout sessions for all size operations and all members of dairy teams. At the 2025 event, breakout sessions will cover four specific tracks:

• Herd and health
• Feed, forages and energy
• People and potential
• Outcomes and opportunities