Upcoming training and education opportunities for IDFA members

Demystifying the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) Pricing Formula Changes Webinar Series

Big changes are coming to the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) pricing formulas in 2025 — and IDFA is here to help you prepare. This two-part webinar series is designed to give you the clarity, context, and confidence you need to navigate the updated regulations and new formulas with ease. Join us May 13 at 1:00 p.m. ET for Webinar 1: What’s Coming – A detailed overview of the 2025 changes ahead of the May 21 price announcement, and June 18 at 1:00 p.m. ET for Webinar 2: It’s Here – A real-time look at June and December formula impacts, with class-by-class and FMMO-specific comparisons. Register

Adding Joy to Prevent Burnout
Feeling burnt out—or headed that way? Join us May 22 at 1 p.m. ET for this webinar and explore how to counter burnout by intentionally cultivating joy in your career and personal life. Burnout disproportionately affects female professionals, and joy is too often deprioritized in career settings. This webinar offers practical strategies to help you identify, integrate, and protect your sources of joy—at work and at home. You’ll also learn how burnout creates barriers to leadership and how to reframe leadership as an opportunity for fulfillment. Walk away with actionable tools to build a more joyful, balanced, and sustainable career. Register

Maximizing Wastewater Efficiency in Anaerobic Digestion for Dairy and Food Processors
Waste and wastewater management is an ever-present issue for dairy and food processors. However, it also presents many opportunities for cost reduction, environmental stewardship, and capturing renewable energy. Dairy and dairy byproducts present unique challenges for wastewater treatment that are often solved, at least in part, with anaerobic digestion. Join IDFA and Imperion May 15 at 1:00 p.m. ET if you are currently operating your own wastewater pretreatment system, considering installing your own wastewater pretreatment system, or are interested in anaerobic biotechnology. Register

The Enteric Methane Pipeline: Technologies, Challenges, & Value Propositions
Join us May 29 at 1 p.m. ET for a webinar on the enteric methane pipeline! Many dairy stakeholders understand that enteric methane from the cow’s digestive process is a challenge for meeting our industry’s climate-related commitments. At least two products to address this challenge are already available in the U.S. marketplace, and a handful of other products are in development pipeline. Join us for this webinar to learn more about innovative enteric methane technological solutions to inform IDFA members on what tools may become available in the future. We will be joined by Caroline Heller with Rumin8, Martha Baker with Agolin by Alltech, Eli Hornstein with ElysiaBio, and Colin South with ArekaBio. Register