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Three-day Amarillo dairy conference highlights labor crunch, tech and milk price outlook

Every two years at Amarillo’s Embassy Suites Hotel, dairy producers travel to downtown Amarillo to attend the High Plains Dairy Conference. It’s designed to help dairy producers overcome challenges facing the global dairy industry. “It’s well attended by multiple state producers from all over who come to get information on the best technology and reproduction, cow calf care, nutrition, and market outlooks. It’s a great opportunity in this area for producers,” said Darren Turley, executive director of Texas Association of Dairymen. “The biggest challenge for dairymen March 3, 2026, and it’s been the biggest challenge we’ve had for over a decade, and it’s going to be labor,” said Rick Naerebout, CEO of Idaho’s Dairymen’s Association. “Trying to figure out to where we get to some sort of workable solution, where we have access to foreign-born labor and to where we can bring them in with legal status.” Several educational forums and discussions are scheduled for three days, all designed to help dairy producers overcome the challenges they face in today’s economic climate. “There’s a lot of research presentations that come out that help answer questions,” said John Van de Pol, owner of Amherst Dairy. “A lot of presentations telling us where the industry might be headed and things we can bring back to our operation and implement.” “It looks like it’s going to be a challenging year,” said Jim Cnossen, owner of Cnossen Dairy. “Milk prices started out pretty poor. We’re producing an awful lot of milk around the country and the world, so we’re not real sure what milk prices are going to do.” “We’re not seeing a lot of new dairies, just some expansions and just the ability for producers to get more milk out of their cows,” said Turley. “Better genetics and better feeding and better technology, just happy cows make happy milk.” The final workshop is scheduled for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. and on Wednesday at 1 p.m. There is an agronomy panel that will be discussing forage and water for 2026, which is expected to draw the interest of many dairy producers from the Texas Panhandle due to the current weather conditions. For more news from the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and Eastern New Mexico, visit www.ABC7Amarillo.com. You can also download our app, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.