Customized Training Programs for Producers, Employees, and Advisers
Let the Dairy Alliance team customize a training package to fit your educational needs. Dairy Alliance educational professionals will tap into the collective expertise of Penn State faculty and staff, as well as industry colleagues, to deliver a top-quality program tailored to meet the specific needs of your farm or group. Some benefits of our programs include:
Targeted training:We will listen to your goals and create a training program that targets the educational objectives you want to achieve.
Savings on employee time and travel:We will present the training at a time and a place that are convenient for you, whether that’s in a traditional face-to- face meeting format, via videoconferencing, or over the worldwide web, if possible.
Evaluation and support:Following training, we can help you evaluate results and provide follow-up support.
Past clients include:- AgChoice Farm Credit
- Center for Dairy Excellence
- Jefferson County (NY) Ag Development Corp.
- New Mexico State University
- Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
- Professional Dairy Managers of PA
- Rutgers University
- Team Paragon
- University of the Azores
- Vermont Department of Agriculture, Food and Markets
For producers, bookkeepers, and dairy accounting staff
Improve Your Farm Accounting System:Recent research conducted by Dairy Alliance indicates that many farm accounting systems do not meet the standards required to supply the dairy’s key decision makers with the accurate information they need to proactively manage their business.
This program helps the people in charge of your accounting system make the changes necessary to improve the quality of information required to make sound management decisions. This program can consist of any combination of the following:
- On-site visits to evaluate your accounting system.
- On-site visits to help you set up your accounting system, make adjustments to your chart of accounts, or review your monthly entries to validate data accuracy.
- On-site training on implementing proper accounting principles and practices.
- Online information exchange to evaluate your accounting system and/or review data entry issues.
- Online training sessions on report generation and interpretation.
The cost will vary according to the educational components you request. From this initial visit you will receive a report listing the issues identified during the visit, a list of recommendations for changes that should be implemented, the results you should expect if you make the suggested changes, and online follow-up to help implement the changes.
For more information about this program:
Brad Hilty
888-373-7232
bhilty@psu.edu
For Consultants
Team and Facilitation Skills:
Whether you are working with an advisory team, a Profit Team or your own internal business team, developing effective facilitation skills can be beneficial. Customized workshops are available for either your own business or for a group of your clients to strengthen these important team skills.
Workshop topics can be customized to best meet the needs of your group and may include: setting and achieving team goals, using the tools of facilitation, structuring teams for success as well as a variety of team building activities. Workshops are presented by Dr. Lisa Holden, associate professor, Penn State Dairy and Animal Science, and are available on a half day or day-long basis. Remember: Together, Everyone Achieves More – TEAM!
For more information about this program:
Dr. Lisa Holden
888-373-7232
lholden@psu.edu
Profitability Assessment (PA) Dairy Tool:
Penn State dairy Extension educators created the innovative PA Dairy Tool Program to help dairy producers examine their entire farm system and identify the bottlenecks in their operations that hinder profitability. Training is available to consultants who would like to learn how to use the online version of this tool, and its accompanying drill-down tools, with their dairy clients.
For more information about this program:
Virginia Ishler
888-373-7232
vishler@psu.edu
