| “While we’re here we’re really talking more about what are some of the future things we might be able to work on together, what kind of things are we really going to look at over the next year as huge opportunities but it’s really much more of a strategic discussion than it is day to day operational things.” |
- Mike Jerred
Brand Manager, Dairy
Cargill, Inc. |
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| “We’ve met with 13 producers, if you were to go see those one at a time with the people that we had in the meeting it would probably cost twice as much to do it.” |
- Chris Berning
Dairy Solutions Coordinator
BouMatic |
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| “ I’ve gotten more work done with these vendors here today than I could have ever gotten done from my office at home.” |
- David Sumrall - Producer
President & CEO
Dairy Production Systems LLC |
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| "The problem with a trade show is you end up wit lots of leads from a trade show, but they aren’t qualified and you can spend a lot of time and a lot of money sorting through the leads trying to find the people that are worthy of your time and effort and that are interested and in a situation like this with the matching process you basically are only meeting with people that want to meet with you." |
- Scott Stewart
President / CEO
Stewart-Peterson
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| “We’re involved in farm shows all over the US and many times the decision maker is not there so we’ll be talking to a producer and that person doesn’t make the decision on the operation. Here we’re talking to the high level managers and owners of the operations and we’re talking right to the people that are going to be making decisions.” |
- Frank O’Brien
Marketing Manager
Kuhn North America |
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| "You have a lot of one-on-one time where you actually get to discuss needs that are relevant to suppliers as well as the Dairymen themselves. You can go to some of the other venues, some of the other get togethers that we have and you don’t get that same one-on-one time, so you really don’t get into some good face-to-face discussion on what’s important to both of you." |
- Perry Tjaarda -
Producer
Partner
Tjaarda Dairy |
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"That sounds like a lot of money for 45 minutes, but we think it’s perhaps one of the best values that there is. We often spend $2000 for a trip to go visit somebody and it takes two days. In two days here we’ve seen 15 people and it’s been extremely productive because both the potential customers and ourselves have been well prepared." |
- John Geuss
Manager – Marketing and Business Development
Adisseo |
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