2024
Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference

February 8-9, 2024 | Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

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Tackle what’s new in sustainability, practical health monitoring and calf health.

Hear experts discuss management strategies to improve crops, every day cow health and labor relations.

Learn the state of the industry. What’s Next and what will it mean for you?

Take a deeper look at reproduction, the future of nutrition and transition planning.


“The planning committee has been committed to identifying speakers who will provide the latest and highest quality information on timely topics important to the region’s dairy producers, farm managers and dairy industry professionals. Our goal is to provide an engaging forum for all sectors of the dairy industry to come together in one place at one time to learn, share information and gather the latest resources to help increase their profitability while doing more with less.”

– Brian Troyer, GLRDC executive board member and dairy nutrition specialist


Since 2003, the Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference (GLRDC) has been dedicated to helping dairy producers learn new ways of increasing their profitability by doing more with less.

Dairy Industry Recognition

In addition to our quality line-up of educational speakers, we will once again be the home base for the eleventh annual Dairy Industry Recognition where we will honor the industry’s leading producers, recognize dairy scholarship recipients and dairy judging team members, as well as announce the new group of dairy ambassadors.

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