134 | Palla Dairies: 3 Highest-Impact Business Decisions in the Past 10 Years

- Long before New Mexico ever made it on the map as a top 10 dairy state, one family packed their bags like pioneers and headed East - from California to Clovis.
Eric Palla was just a small boy at the time, as his father Wayne staked out a dairy and a dream that today includes 11,000 cows across three facilities, with two located in New Mexico and one in west Texas.
And that ‘s not all.
In addition to the dairy, the family also farms 15,000 acres and operates a 1,300-head cow-calf herd.
What were the 3 best business decisions for Palla Dairies in the past 10 years? We sit down with Eric Palla today to find out on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast.
We are talking growth, scaling and diversification with Eric Palla, including core business philosophies and high-impact actions, like:
- Consolidating operations for efficiency
- Hiring an operations manager
- Raising their own replacements on site, combined with using genomic selection to drive their beef-on-dairy breeding strategy
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