Hosts of the 2014 The 2014 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit have announced the 2014 event will be held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 12 – 13.
Hosted annually by the Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania and the Center for Dairy Excellence, the annual summit brings in more than 500 dairy producers and other industry enthusiasts for two days of learning and networking.
Among the new program elements is the “Pennsylvania Dairy Summit Forage Analysis Competition,” which will give Pennsylvania dairy producers and other crop growers the opportunity to submit their corn silage, haylage and cool season grass samples to compete for monetary prizes.
Six categories will be judged in the forage analysis competition: conventional corn silage, BMR corn silage, perennial legume silage, mixed perennial silage (alfalfa and/or clover with grass), cool season annual silage (small grains and/or annual ryegrass), and forage sorghum silage. Class sponsors for each category are currently being solicited, with a top prize of $1,000 available in each class. Those who participate in the contest will also receive free forage analyses for their samples from Cumberland Valley Analytic Services.
Sponsorship information for the Forage Analysis Competition is available now. However, sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities for the full Pennsylvania Dairy Summit will not be available until July.