Dairy Defined

About Dairy Defined

National Milk Producers Federation

Publisher

National Milk Producers Federation

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Sept 2019

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

30 of 127 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Dairy Farmers Near Win in Decades-Long Regulatory Fight

   The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, aka EPCRA, was created in 1986 to help communities plan for chemical emergencies. It requires industry to report on the storage, use, and release of hazardous substances to federal, state, and local governments. It’s a good law, says NMPF Chief Counsel Clay Detlefsen, but unintended consequences have snared dairy farmers into a decades-long fight against over-regulation. And for those decades, Detlefsen’s been part of every twist a...

2. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Dairy Farmers Advancing at the State Level

   Even as regulatory and legislative challenges persist at all levels of state government, pro-dairy advocacy is making progress nationwide, two leaders in state dairy policies said in the latest Dairy Defined podcast. “Some farms are struggling. I don't want to diminish what those farms are going through,” Allyson Jones-Brimmer, executive director of the Northeast Dairy Producers Association, said. “But overall, we have elected officials at every level that want to see dairy and agriculture as...

3. 

   22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ultra-Processed Foods Definition Elusive

   Chad Galer, vice president of product innovation and food safety for Dairy Management Inc., discusses the challenges of defining ultra-processed foods and the risks of oversimplification in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Dairy Farmers Near Win in Decades-Long Regulatory Fight

Published 10 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So it's live there. It's live in the appeals court. I think we're looking very good in the appeals court. We were joined. Our position was joined by 24, 25 state attorney generals who all found the notion of reporting air emissions from manure to be nonsensical. And they don't want it. But until everything runs its course, it's a live issue. So my prediction on this is we will win in the court of appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court will not take this up. Therefore, it will be done in the legal process. I think we'll leverage that to go back to EPA and say, look, the courts have run all the traps on this and have consistently found that the exemption was properly executed. […]

Who has been a guest on Dairy Defined

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Chad Galer
• Shawna Morris
• Chris Galen
• Brian Rexing
• Daragh Maccabee

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Quality

64

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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