Dwayne Faber: Keeping employees motivated and engaged when managing dairies from afar

Progressive Dairy Podcast · Dec 17, 2024 · 28m

Join host Kimmi Devaney as she chats with Oregon dairy producer and Progressive Dairy columnist Dwayne Faber about moving the dairies to another state, how he keeps employees motivated when he cannot always be there, the qualities he looks for in key employees and what has surprised him most during the transition from managing two farms nearby to managing them from afar.

Here is a breakdown of the episode:

[~1:10] About you and your farms

[~2:25] What it was like starting a dairy in 2009

[~3:20] Management differences between having the dairy nearby and having the farm farther away

[~5:10]…