World Dairy Diary

Welcome Holstein Association To World Dairy Diary

We’d like to welcome our newest supporter to the offical weblog of the World Dairy Expo. The Holstein Association is one of growing list of companies and organizations who are helping make this online diary of information about the Expo possible.

The Holstein Association just completed it’s annual meeting in Portland, Maine. You can learn all about it on their website.

Special thanks to Lisa Perrin for her support and we look forward to working with the Holstein Association in supporting the event!

Meet Your Blogmaster

You always wonder what the person looks like who you’ve spoken with on the phone but you’ve never met. I think the same is true with the blogger you’re reading. Who is this? Well, The World Dairy Expo Blog is being maintained by Chuck Zimmerman, ZimmComm, Marketing & Communications. He’s the one posting everything. In fact, it’s me that’s posting this article (not the best looking one in the picture)!

On the staff, Lisa Behnke, (the better looking one in the picture) is assisting with guidance on content and supplying information. I’ll be posting that information for you and covering the Expo as a very dedicated reporter, before, during and after.

I got to meet Lisa today at the World Dairy Expo Office. She’s was just finishing up the program and was gracious enough to spend some time with me. I’m stopping back in next week and hope to conduct some interviews which I’ll bring you right here, so stay tuned!

BTW. It’s casual Friday. That explains my Hawaiian shirt.

New World Dairy Expo Office Building

Today your blogmaster had the opportunity to visit the World Dairy Expo headquarters building. It’s brand new and still smells that way! If you haven’t seen it or visited then at least now you know what the entrance looks like! There are a lot of pictures from past Expo’s on the walls making just walking around an interesting experience.

Here’s The Schedule

World Dairy Expo 2005 Schedule

Trade Show Hours remain unchanged:
Tuesday – Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 4th
7:30 a.m. International Junior Holstein Show
8:00 a.m. Central National Ayrshire Show
1:00 p.m. Central National Jersey Show (heifers)

Wednesday, October 5th
7:30 a.m. Central National Jersey Show (bulls, cows and groups)
1:30 p.m. International Milking Shorthorn Show & Central National Brown Swiss Show (bulls and heifer)

Thursday, October 6th
8:00 a.m. Central National Brown Swiss Show (cows and groups)
1:30 p.m. Central National Guernsey Show (heifers) & Grand International Red & White Show (bulls & heifers)

Friday, October 7th
7:30 a.m. Central National Guernsey Show (cows and groups) & Grand International Red & White Show (cows & groups)
12:00 noon International Holstein Show (heifers)

Saturday, October 8th
7:30 a.m. International Holstein Show (bulls, cows, groups)
5:30 p.m. Parade of Champions and Selection of 2005 Supreme Champions

2005 Judges Announced

As we get nearer this year’s show more information is becoming available. Look here to find it as well as visiting the World Dairy Expo website at www.worlddairyexpo.com!

WORLD DAIRY EXPO NAMES 2005 JUDGES
MADISON, WISCONSIN – World Dairy Expo recently named eight industry representatives and producers to serve as official judges for the 2005 show scheduled Tuesday, October 4 through Saturday, October 8 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The dairy cattle show judges were elected by last year’s dairy cattle exhibitors and/or breed associations and ratified by Expo’s board of directors. Judging almost 2,000 head of cattle will be:

International Holstein Show: Friday, October 7th and Saturday, October 8th Perry Phend, Osseo, Wisconsin

Send Us Your Ideas

What would you like to see on the World Dairy Expo Blog? Although we’ll be posting news, pictures, results, interviews and just about anything else that comes up we want to make sure the site has what you’d like to see.

Feel free to use the comments feature to write us or you can also send an email.

We’ll do our best to make sure we provide all the information you want to see!

Thanks.

Dane County Fair This Week At Alliant Energy Center

This is a busy week in Madison for the World Dairy Expo staff since they also manage the Dane County Fair. The fair goes into full swing starting Wednesday, July 20 and runs through the 24th.

You can keep in touch with all the news from the fair on their website.

Meet The Creative Talent Behind The “Theme”

If you’ve ever wondered who creates the themes each year for World Dairy Expo then you ought to listen this interview with Brad Nellis, Distillery Design Studio. Brad will tell you it’s a team effort and it is but he’s also the creative guy who’s been working on the themes for many years.

Brad was interviewed for the ZimmCast, a weekly program found on AgWired.

You can listen to the interview here

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No-Bull Enterprises First World Dairy Expo Blog Sponsor

Announcing the first company to become a supporter of the World Dairy Expo Blog. It’s No-Bull Enterprises!

As a supporter the company has a link to their website in our sidebar and we’ll post information about them and their exhibit at the show. Please thank and support our supporters!

Thank you No-Bull Enterprises for taking the bold first step into the blogoshpere.

Last Year’s Supreme Champion

Just to show you that pictures will be an integral part of the World Dairy Expo blogging experience here’s a look at last year’s Supreme Champion.

HILLCROFT LEADER MELANIE (Holstein)
Exhibited by Arethusa Farm of Litchfield, Connecticut
Production: 5-00 365d 42,045 4.1%F 1,705F 3.0%P 1,264P

We’re looking forward to taking a lot of pictures this year and posting them for your enjoyment!

Let’s Check Out Dairies South Of The Border

I seriously think this Expo Blog as we’ll affectionately call it needs to cover this trip! I say let’s blog it. Who’s going with us?

Fly away to enjoy the agriculture and friendship of Mexico’s sunny central plains. World Dairy Expo is hosting a Mexican Expedition November 28 – December 5, 2005. The trip is planned around the Queretaro Exposition and Mexican National Holstein dairy cattle show. Surrounded by the famed aqueducts of this colonial city, participants will experience the area’s famous history and visit the site where the Mexican Constitution was signed. Dairy enthusiasts will conduct technical visits to working dairy farms and industries offering hands-on study of one of Mexico’s strongest milk and cattle producing regions. Side trips include “traditional” and “modern” retail food markets and discussions with dairy industry leaders.

Now here’s the part I really like: The eight-day trip includes siestas, fiestas!

Registration deadline: July 15, 2005. For more information call 1-800-284-1361.

World Dairy Expo Among Top 100 Tradeshows in U.S.

You know it’s a big show but according to the latest from Tradeshow Week, World Dairy Expo has moved up the charts! It’s now ranked 85 th on the country’s list of largest tradeshows. Compiled annually and published in April, the Tradeshow Week 200 ranks the 200 largest tradeshows in the United States and the 50 largest in Canada. Rank is determined by net square feet of paid exhibit space.

Some other interesting tidbits include: we’re up nine spots from last year’s rank of 94, World Dairy Expo is the largest production agriculture show among the top 100 which includes a variety of industries, from apparel to consumer electronics and health care to sporting goods, and it’s the only show among the top 200 that resides in Wisconsin.

“A jump of nine rankings is remarkable,” says John Rozum, World Dairy Expo Sales Manager. “This is not a shrinking business.” In fact, according to Tradeshow Week, tradeshows across the country saw increases across the board with exhibiting companies up three percent for 2004, while net square footage and show attendance figures grew over two percent.

New Board Members For WDE Management

WDE Managment is the group that manages the Dane County Fair, the Purebred Dairy Cattle Association, the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge and the Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation. It is the wholly owned subsidiary of World Dairy Expo, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin.

The officers and board members are:

President – Mark Boyke, U.S. Foods & Pharmaceuticals, Madison, WI.Vice President – Bill Battista, Destron/Fearing, Madison, WI.Secretary/Treasurer – James Leuenberger, Holstein Association USA, Shawano, WI.

Additional board members:

Bill Barlass, Barlass Farms, Janesville, WI David Thorbahn, Select Sires, Plain City, OH

Countdown To Expo Time!

It’s time to make your final plans to attend the 2005 World Dairy Expo!

This year’s theme is “The Art of Dairy.” See how many previous Expo themes you remember by taking a walk down our memory lane.

Be one of more than 65,000 dairy industry enthusiasts who make the trip to World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. It’s the international meeting place for the dairy industry. Expo offers the most elite combination of dairy cattle and exhibits in the world.

You’ll find the most modern dairy equipment and the newest dairy technology and innovations, including animal health supplies, milking systems, feeding products, forage handling and manure equipmentplus embryos, semen and genetic research.

You’ll see North America’s top dairy cattle compete for honors in seven breed shows. Throughout the week meet herd owners in the barns, place your bids at five cattle auctions and then watch the Parade of Champions and the selection of World Dairy Expo’s Supreme Champion.

You can impact the future of the dairy industry by placing your bids at the World Dairy Expo Invest in Our Best Silent Auction. All auction proceeds will benefit Expo’s youth contests and programs.

A New Website To Promote The World Dairy Expo

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