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Josh Peters shares insights on building trust in dairy consulting and the importance of commitment and management in achieving success.

Today on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, Peggy Coffeen interviews Josh Peters of Standard Dairy Consultants about earning dairy producers’ trust without a dairy-farm background and why showing up and commitment matter. Peters shares his path from raising beef cattle, serving in the military, and working at Simplot to entering dairy nutrition, completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees while feeding cows full time, and building long-term client relationships. He discusses early success achieving seven pounds of components, emphasizing that results come from aligning genetics, feeds, infrastructure, and management rather than simple fixes. Since moving to Idaho’s Magic Valley, he’s seen rapid facility upgrades like cross-vent barns that reduce environmental variability but expose management and labor challenges, making consistency the key competitive advantage. Peters explains using Milc Group feeding software to improve speed, accuracy, and data-driven problem identification, focusing his consulting on bottlenecks and overall profitability, and argues AI won’t replace on-farm people willing to walk cows and do the daily work. This Episode is Brought to you by the Milc Group Milc…

People in this episode

Host: Peggy Coffeen

Guest: Josh Peters

Topics covered

• dairy nutrition
• client relationships
• agriculture technology
• consulting
• sustainability
• data-driven decision making

Keywords

• dairy
• nutrition
• consulting
• agriculture
• technology
• sustainability
• data
• profitability
• AI
• client relationships

Sponsors

Milc Group

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Standard Dairy Consultants, Simplot

Places: Idaho, Magic Valley

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