BMO is proud to have partnered with the Dairy Business Association and Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative to create the three-part Dairy Streams podcast series “How We Got Here”, which features inspiring success stories from dairy farmers who are leading the industry forward.

In each episode, Dairy Stream’s Joanna Guza interviews a different farmer about their operations and path to success in the dairy industry with the help of their BMO banker.

In this first episode, Josh Meissner, owner of Norm E Lane, and Brad Guse, BMO’s Director of Production Agriculture, discuss Norm E Lane’s philosophy of valuing building business relationships and understanding opportunity in the dairy industry.

In this second episode, Dennis Hawkins, owner of Solhawk Dairy, and Paul Salm, BMO’s Vice President of Business Banking, had a conversation about being a fifth-generation farm and prioritizing continuous change to increase efficiencies.

In this final episode, Ken Verhasselt, owner of Verhasselt Farms, and Don Adamas, BMO’s Senior Vice President of Agribusiness Banking, examine the impacts of early adoption of technology in farming and doing homework on realistic budgeting.