Progressive Dairy Solutions

What Progressive Dairy Solutions does

Progressive Dairy Solutions, Inc. (PDS) is a privately held dairy nutrition and management consulting firm founded in 2007 and headquartered at 120 S Sierra Ave, Oakdale, California. The firm is co-founded by Matt Budine (CEO), Brian Sundberg, and Luciana Jonkman, and serves large-scale dairy producers worldwide, with operations spanning the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Ireland, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Its primary customer segment is large commercial dairies operating thousands of lactating cows, with a cumulative impact footprint of over 1.1 million cows served by 47-50+ consultants as of 2023.

PDS delivers its offering through three core products. The flagship is nutrition and management consulting, delivered by an in-house team of veterinarians (DVMs), PhDs, and ruminant nutritionists sourced from programs such as Cornell, UC Davis, Kansas State, and University of Florida, and embedded with client operations across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The second product is the Advanced Dairy Training Programs, covering calving, feeding, milking, fresh cow management, and employee workforce development for dairy farm staff. The third product is the ECM/FCM Calculator, a publicly available web tool that computes Energy Corrected Milk and Fat Corrected Milk from milk weight, butterfat percentage, and protein percentage. PDS also integrates with Amelicor EZfeed for data-driven feed management on client dairies.

The business model is a pure professional-services engagement model with bespoke consulting contracts tailored to individual dairy operations; pricing is not publicly disclosed and no productized SaaS or subscription pricing tier exists. Distribution is direct via field-based consultants embedded with client dairies, supported by content marketing through the company website, the Uplevel Dairy podcast, social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, LinkedIn), and third-party industry publications (Progressive Dairyman, Agri Business Review, DailyHerd.com, Agproud.com). PDS operates with no external private equity or venture capital backing disclosed and no parent company, making it an independent, founder-led firm.

Name

Progressive Dairy Solutions

Legal name

Progressive Dairy Solutions, Inc.

Website

https://progressivedairysolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Progressive Dairy Solutions is a private, founder-led dairy nutrition and management consulting firm founded in 2007, serving large-scale dairy producers across the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia with a 50+ consultant team of veterinarians and nutritionists.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural / Dairy Consulting

NAICS

Dairy Cattle and Milk Production (11212)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Dairy Farm Data, Monitoring & Precision Dairy Operations (AFAEACAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Milking Parlor & Dairy Farm Support Services (Non-veterinary) (AFAEALAK)

Keywords

• Dairy nutrition consulting
• Dairy management consulting
• Animal nutrition services
• Dairy herd health
• Livestock consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Nutrition and Management Consulting: Professional consulting services provided to dairy producers worldwide, covering nutrition programs, management consulting, and dairy training programs. Revenue is generated through ongoing consulting engagements with dairy operations.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Progressive Dairy Solutions is a consulting firm that delivers nutrition and management advisory services to dairy producers worldwide. Its work combines ration formulation, transition cow management, herd health, reproduction, cow comfort, and employee training delivered by an in-house team of veterinarians, PhDs, and nutritionists. The firm also runs Advanced Dairy Training programs and publishes a free ECM/FCM Calculator for standardized milk production analysis.

Product overview

Progressive Dairy Solutions is a dairy nutrition and management consulting company that offers a unified portfolio of services centered on nutrition consulting and training programs. The core offering includes nutrition and management consulting delivered by a global team of over 50 consultants, supported by the ECM/FCM Calculator tool for milk production analysis, and the Advanced Dairy Training Programs for workforce development. The company also publishes expert articles and podcast content addressing dairy industry challenges and best practices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nutrition and Management Consulting Ongoing dairy nutrition and management consulting delivered by over 50 nutritionists, veterinarians, and PhDs covering ration formulation, transition cow management, herd health, reproduction, cow comfort, feed efficiency, and silage management for large-scale dairy operations worldwide.
• Advanced Dairy Training Programs Structured on-farm and on-line employee training curricula covering calving, fresh cow management, feeder school, milker school, hospital routines, and other dairy operational disciplines, designed to upskill dairy farm staff in collaboration with management.
• ECM/FCM Calculator Free web-based Energy Corrected Milk and Fat Corrected Milk calculator that lets dairy producers convert raw milk pounds, butterfat percentage, and protein percentage into standardized production values for herd performance benchmarking.

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Diamond V: Specializes in natural, immune-support nutrition for dairy cattle, pairing nutritional product sales with on-farm advisory services. Comparable to PDS in serving dairy producers with nutrition consulting, though Diamond V's advisory is typically tied to its proprietary supplement line.
• Purina Animal Nutrition (Land O'Lakes): One of the largest US feed companies with a dedicated dairy nutrition team providing on-farm consulting, ration balancing, and forage analysis to commercial dairies. Comparable to PDS as a US-centric dairy nutrition consultant embedded in a major feed cooperative.
• Alltech: Global animal nutrition and feed additive company that operates an on-farm dairy consulting arm alongside its core supplement business. Comparable to PDS in providing nutrition advisory to commercial dairies, though Alltech's consulting is bundled with its proprietary feed additives.
• Elanco Animal Health: Major animal health and nutrition company that employs veterinary and nutrition technical service teams supporting dairy producers on herd health, reproduction, and productivity. Overlaps with PDS on veterinary advisory to dairies, though Elanco's primary business is pharmaceuticals rather than independent consulting.
• Trouw Nutrition (Nutreco): Nutreco's ruminant and dairy nutrition division provides nutritional advisory, ration formulation, and farm consultancy globally, including South America where PDS has built presence (Ruben Gregoret previously led ruminant business for Trouw South America). Comparable in nutrition consulting scope; broader feed and additives portfolio.
• Zoetis: Global animal health company providing dairy well-being, reproduction, and production consulting to producers, including key account management for large multi-site dairies. Multiple former PDS consultants (Pablo Descole, Jason Anderson) came from Zoetis, indicating technical overlap with PDS's herd health and reproductive consulting.
• Cargill Animal Nutrition: Cargill's animal nutrition business sells feed and provides on-farm consulting/nutrition advisory to dairy producers globally, often bundling advisory with feed sales. Directly comparable to PDS as a dairy nutrition consulting provider, though embedded within a much larger commodity and feed conglomerate.
• Phibro Animal Health: Animal health and nutrition company providing technical service, dairy nutrition consulting, and account management to commercial dairy producers in the US and abroad. Comparable to PDS in providing on-farm dairy consulting through technical sales professionals; PDS alumnus Josh Ebert most recently worked at Phibro.

Direct peers

• Diamond H Dairy Solutions: Independent dairy nutrition consulting firm serving Western US dairy producers with on-farm advisory, ration balancing, and herd health support, founded and led by dairy PhD nutritionists. Closest functional analog to PDS in size, scope, and geographic concentration as an independent (non-feed-company) nutrition consultant.

Emerging players

• VAS (Pulse/Agriwebb style dairy tech platforms): VAS (DairyComp) provides dairy herd management software used by PDS consultants (e.g., Bryan Soares works with EZfeed/Amelicor integrations). Comparable as a technology-enabled dairy management/advisory tools provider, though VAS is software-first whereas PDS is people-first.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/pdscowsusa
• Xx.com/pdscowsusa
• Facebookfacebook.com/Progressive-Dairy-Solutions-Inc-100058908463604
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/progressive-dairy-solutions-inc.

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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