Dairy producers and industry representatives from around the globe will gather in Madison, Wisconsin, when World Dairy Expo takes place September 28 – October 1. This year, continuing education credits for dairy professionals, nutritionists, veterinarians and veterinary technicians can be earned by attending the World Dairy Expo Seminars. Members of American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) and the American Association of State Veterinary Boards – RACE Program (RACE) can earn one credit for each seminar they attend.
“Veterinarians and dairy professionals will see the latest technology displayed at World Dairy Expo’s trade show and the finest in dairy genetics on parade at the dairy cattle shows held during the week. Now, in addition, they can earn continuing education credits. This is a great added feature for a trip they are already making,” says Liz Matzke, seminar coordinator.
There will be eight seminars held during the week, Tuesday through Saturday, in Mendota 2 meeting room located in the Exhibition Hall. Seminars are structured with a 45-minute presentation, plus time for questions and discussion.
ABS Global, Advanced Comfort Technology, Alltech, APC, Inc., Badgerland Financial, BASF Plant Science, Jamesway Farm Equipment and Micro Dairy Logic are sponsors of this year’s seminars.
Tuesday, September 28, 1:00 p.m.
“Opportunities to Advance Manure Digesters in the US”
Christopher Voell, Program Manager-AgSTAR, EPA Climate Change Division
Sponsored by: Jamesway Farm Equipment
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Wednesday, September 29, 11:00 a.m.
“Recent Developments in Genetic Testing and Predicting Genetic Values”
Dr. Curt Van Tassell, Research Geneticist, USDA – ARS
Sponsored by: ABS Global
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Wednesday, September 29, 1:00 p.m.
“Improving Feed Efficiency in Dairy Heifers”
Dr. Jud Heinrichs, Professor, Penn State University
Sponsored by: APC, Inc.
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Thursday, September 30, 11:00 a.m.
“Will Precision Dairy Farming Change Dairy Farm Management?”
Dr. Jeffrey Bewley, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Kentucky
Sponsored by: Advanced Comfort Technology, Inc.
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Thursday, September 30, 1:00 p.m.
“Managing Feed Costs in 2010”
Dr. Mike Hutjens, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign
Sponsored by: BASF Plant Science
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Friday, October 1, 11:00 a.m.
“Global Dairy Trends and Their Affect on Milk Price Volatility”
Torsten Hemme, Chairman of the IFCN Network, IFCN Dairy Research Center at the University of Kiel, Germany
Sponsored by: Badgerland Financial
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Friday, October 1, 1:00 p.m.
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Reproductive Management Programs”
Dr. Paul Fricke, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Sponsored by: Micro Dairy Logic
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Saturday, October 2, 11:00 a.m.
“Mycotoxins in Dairy Feeds: The Threat to Herd Health”
Dr. Trevor K. Smith, Professor, University of Guelph
Sponsored by: Alltech
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
World Dairy Expo is now accepting entries for the 2010 show. “Crowning Achievements – Golden Opportunities” is the theme for World Dairy Expo 2010, which will take place Tuesday, September 28, through Saturday, October 1 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Cattle exhibitors wishing to compete may enter online or request a premium book and paper entry forms by calling 608-224-6455. Paper entry forms are also available on the website.
According to Dairy Cattle Show Manager, Laura Herschleb, entries will be accepted now through midnight (CDT) on Wednesday, September 1.
Animals may still be entered after September 1, but the online entry system will no longer be available. Late entries must be submitted on paper entry forms, and accompanied by appropriate late fees.
Late fees for entries postmarked September 2 through September 5 are $50 per animal, and those posted after September 5 are $100 per animal.
Attention dairy companies – are you interested in exhibiting at World Dairy Expo? You may be in luck.
Due to high demand for additional display space for equipment, World Dairy Expo has expanded its Outdoor Trade Mall for 2010. An additional 19,000 square feet of prime booth space, the equivalent of adding another Arena Building, has been added to the east side of the Exhibition Hall.
In addition to providing more exhibit space for equipment, the change will also allow for expansion of the Grazing Pavilion. A popular destination at last year’s show, it features a live cattle display and exhibits specific to grazing management. A larger seating area is also planned for the food court in the Outdoor Trade Mall.
Even prior to this expansion, World Dairy Expo was recognized as the world’s largest dairy-focused trade show. Tradeshow Week, an industry publication that serves trade shows across all industries, ranked World Dairy Expo’s trade show the 32nd largest professional trade show in the country. More than 750 companies from 24 countries exhibited in 2009. Last year’s attendance topped 64,000 and included representatives from 91 different countries.
Companies interested in contracting space in either the Outdoor Trade Mall or Grazing Pavilion should contact World Dairy Expo’s Sale Manager, John Rozum at jrozum@wdexpo.com.
One unique part of World Dairy Expo is the annual virtual tours of dairy farms. The 2010 list has been released.
Free tours will be presented daily, Tuesday through Saturday, September 28 – October 2, in the Mendota 1 meeting room in the Exhibition Hall. Managers will present a half-hour pictorial view of their operation, including general operation information and highlights of exceptional management practices. Time for questions and discussion will follow. The tours will be available for viewing on World Dairy Expo’s website after the show.
Tour hosts include:
Valley-Drive Holsteins, LLC, Campbellsport, Wisconsin
Managed by Jeff & Merlene Hayes family and Daryl Winter
200 Milking – Adaptation Leads to Longevity
Sponsored by: Structures Unlimited LLC
Stewart Farms Inc., Nampa, Idaho
Managed by Joe, Jere, Jim & Marcella Stewart
630 Milking – Innovative Reproductive Tools
Sponsored by: Semex
Clover Patch Dairy, Millersburg, Ohio
Managed by Alan & Sharon Kozak
420 Milking – Grazing Benefits
Sponsored by: American Jersey Cattle Association
Ripp’s Dairy Valley, Dane, Wisconsin
Managed by Gary, Troy & Chuck Ripp and families
860 Milking/Managing Transition Cows
Sponsored by: AgSource Cooperative Services
University of Minnesota Teaching & Research Facility, St. Paul, Minnesota
130 Milking – A Research Dairy Herd
Sponsored by: Quality Liquid Feeds
Cycle Farm, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Managed by Bill, Clarice, Jacob, Tony & Moriah Brey
240 Milking – Family Succession
Sponsored by: Grow Wisconsin Dairy Team
Royal Farms Dairy, Garden City, Kansas
Managed by Kyle Averhoff & the Irsik Family
6150 Milking – Environmental Stewards
Sponsored by: Kansas Department of Commerce
Sandy Acres Dairy, Elk Mound, Wisconsin
Managed by Jeff & Marie Pagenkopf
480 Milking – Robotic Calf Feeders
Sponsored by: Land O’Lakes Purina Feed
Planning to visit the 2010 World Dairy Expo? Before you pack the car, take some time to visit the new interactive website where you can learn more about each of the 750-plus companies participating in this year’s show. Mark your calendars – the show will take place September 28 through October 2 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis.
World Dairy Expo Sales Manager, John Rozum says “We are really excited to provide this year-round resource. In addition to a full listing of our exhibitors, you can now search our site for very specific information about each one. Dairy producers are sure to find this tool valuable before, during and after the show.”
Rozum notes, “Each year World Dairy Expo’s trade show features the best tools, products, equipment and technology to manage a dairy operation. We’re hoping our new search function and interactive maps help connect dairy producers with our exhibitors all year long.”
Interactive options include:
• Up-to-date lists of World Dairy Expo’s exhibitors, featuring company name, product category, booth location and web address.
• Individual maps of the grounds, including the Outdoor Trade Mall, Exhibition Hall, Coliseum, Arena Building and Grazing Pavilion, that allow you to scroll over booth locations and see the name of the company occupying that space as well as their address and contact information.
• Dairy producers who are looking for specific products or equipment will appreciate the search function of the site. For instance, if you are looking for products to treat mastitis, simply type the word into the search bar and an instantaneous list of all exhibitors supplying mastitis treatments appears along with their booth location and website link. Click on individual maps, and these same exhibitors’ booths are highlighted.
In conjunction with World Dairy Expo, the 27th Annual World Forage Analysis Superbowl will award over $20,000 in cash prizes. Special thanks goes to Mycogen Seeds, the contest’s Platinum Sponsor. Case IH is the contest’s newest sponsor and will award the Grand Champion Forage Producer with a check for $2,500. The Grand Champion First Time Entrant will receive $1,500 from Kuhn North America. Each of the six category champions will receive a check for $1,500.
o Champion Dairy Hay sponsored by Syngenta Seeds
o Champion Dairy Haylage sponsored by Kent Feeds
o Champion Commercial Baleage sponsored by W-L Research
o Champion Commercial Hay sponsored by Bridon Cordage
o Champion Standard Corn Silage sponsored by AgBag
o Champion Brown Mid-Rib Corn Silage sponsored by Mycogen Seed
In addition to the above categories, two other categories will also be given, Quality Counts Hay/Haylage and Quality Counts Corn Silage sponsored by Croplan Genetics. The winners of the Quality Counts categories will each receive a $1,000 prize. =The Quality Counts category will be based on a predetermined quality factor, but will not be announced until World Dairy Expo. Additional sponsorship is provided by the National Hay Association.
The 27th Annual World Forage Analysis Superbowl is organized in partnership with AgSource Laboratories, DairyBusiness Communications, Hay & Forage Grower, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, University of Wisconsin and World Dairy Expo.
World Dairy Expo has announced the winners of their annual Recognition Awards. The award recognizes four individuals for their contributions to the global dairy industry.
World Dairy Expo’s 2010 Recognition Award Winners include: Dairyman of the Year – Donald Bennink, North Florida Holsteins, Bell, Florida; Dairy Woman of the Year – Liz Doornink, Jon-De Farms, Baldwin, Wisconsin; Industry Person of the Year – Horace Backus, Backus Pedigree Company, Mexico, New York; and International Person of the Year – Tadanaga Komori, Japan Livestock Trading Corporation, Obihiro-shi, Hokkaido, Japan.
The four recipients will be honored during World Dairy Expo at a special “Dinner with the Stars” banquet, held on Wednesday, September 29, in the Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Tickets for the event are $30. Reservations are required by Tuesday, September 21.
Congratulations to Angie Coburn, Mike Hellenbrand, Steve Larson and Bryan Voegeli, the new members of the World Dairy Expo’s Board of Directors.
Angie Coburn serves as Procurement Manager for Genex Cooperative, Inc./CRI of Shawano, Wis. She has been with the company for fourteen years, and is currently responsible for all bull and embryo acquisitions while overseeing their GENESIS nucleus program. With a degree is Dairy Science from Virginia Tech, she has been active on the NAAB Dairy Sire Evaluation Committee, AJCA Type Advisory Committee, and the Virginia Tech Dairy Science Alumni Association. Coburn has also been involved with the Pennsylvania All-American and WDE’s Intercollegiate Dairy Judging Contests.
Mike Hellenbrand and his wife Linda, own and operate City Slickers Farm in Cross Plains, Wis. With a degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Hellenbrand began his career in the banking business in Madison. He later ran the Mortgage Securities Group for a Wall Street firm in New York City for 10 years and also developed a consulting firm while there, providing services to a number of financial firms throughout the country. Following the events of September 11, 2001, he and Linda decided to reenter the agricultural industry. They now manage an intensive embryo transfer business, currently implanting approximately 1,000 dairy embryos annually. City Slickers’ Farming operation consists of 250 recipients and 350 ET animals that are primarily owned in partnership arrangements.
Steve Larson has been with Hoard’s Dairyman in Fort Atkinson, Wis. since 1969. Since 1998, he has served as Managing Editor, and now directs the editorial content and production of the international dairy magazine. Besides his editorial responsibilities, Steve also prepares Washington News and the magazines’ coverage of milk marketing and dairy policy, dairy product promotion, feeding and nutrition, and mastitis and herd health. In addition, he works with the Hoard’s Dairyman Farm, consisting of 350 registered Guernseys and Jerseys on 530 acres. Larson serves on a number of industry advisory boards. He holds degrees from Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and his wife, Leota, have five children.
Bryan Voegeli is the fifth generation to operate Voegeli Farm, Inc., in Monticello, Wis. Registered Brown Swiss cattle have been on the farm since 1895. Today, Voegeli manages a milking herd of 200 registered Brown Swiss and works about 1,100 acres of cropland. A 1981 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a degree in Dairy Science, he has served on the Wisconsin State Brown Swiss Board of Directors for sixteen years. He also served as State Brown Swiss President for five years and as a National Director for the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association of the USA for six-years. Currently, Voegeli is a member of the Equity and Cheese Committee for the Brown Swiss Association and a member of the WDE Dairy Cattle Exhibitors Committee.
Posted: February 19, 2010 at 5:05 pm
By News Editor
World Dairy Expo 2010 may be more than six months away, but today, the official judges for the world class dairy show were appointed. This year’s event theme is: “Crowning Achievements – Golden Opportunities,” and will take place at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin from September 28 through October 2.
The individuals who will be responsible for placing over 2,500 head of dairy cattle during the five-day show are:
International Junior Holstein Show: Adam Liddle, Argyle, New York
International Ayrshire Show: Norm Nabholz, West Union, Iowa
Ayrshire Associate: Randy Franck, Dewitt, Iowa
International Milking Shorthorn Show: Ronnie Mosser, Geneva, Indiana
Central National Jersey Show: Kelly Barbee, Concord, North Carolina
Jersey Associate: Dennis Patrick, Woodbine, Maryland
International Brown Swiss Show: Callum McKinven, Canton De Hatley, Quebec, Canada
Brown Swiss Associate: Richard Landry, Ste-Brigitte des Saults, Quebec, Canada
International Guernsey Show: Lynn Harbaugh, Pine River, Wisconsin
Guernsey Associate: Paul Trapp, Taylor, Wisconsin
Grand International Red & White Show: Brian Carscadden, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Red & White Associate: Quim Serrabassa, Spain
International Holstein Show: Brian Craswell, Civic, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Holstein Associate: Tyler Doiron, Cap Sante, Quebec, Canada
Posted: December 18, 2009 at 1:41 pm
By Cindy Zimmerman
Four “Friends of Expo” were recognized at a special, baseball-themed volunteer appreciation dinner recently at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Nearly 150 volunteers gathered to acknowledge their contributions and celebrate a successful 2009 show.
Honored for their years of support and outstanding service to World Dairy Expo, these individuals were selected from among the nearly 400 volunteers who help run the cattle shows, commercial exhibits, youth contests, school tours and Purple Cow Gift Shop during the annual, five-day show. The 2009 honorees include: Connie Kolpin, Gary Kolpin, Lynda Yates and Gordon Marquart.
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 7:48 pm
By News Editor
The World Dairy Expo is seeking nominations for its annual recognition awards. Nominate the outstanding dairy leaders from your life!
Nominations will be accepted through February 1, 2010 in the four following categories: Industry Person of the Year, Dairyman of the Year, Dairy Woman of the Year, and International Person of the Year. Individuals will be honored at the Dinner with the Stars during World Dairy Expo, September 28 – October 2, 2010, in Madison, Wis.
The Industry Person of the Year award is presented to an individual in recognition of excellence in research, development, education, marketing or other fields that are part of the dairy industry.
The Dairyman and Dairy Woman of the Year awards are presented to individuals who are active dairy producers and whose primary source of income is derived from their dairy operation. His/her farming operation needs to demonstrate and excel in efficient production and breeding of quality animals. Progressive management practices, along with involvement in community, government activities, breed organizations and other aspects of the dairy industry, will also be considered.
The International Person of the Year will be recognized for significantly contributing to international relations, business development, trade or cooperation in the dairy industry.
Posted: October 11, 2009 at 5:29 pm
By Cindy Zimmerman
Back in 2001, Dairyland Seed released the world’s first hybrid alfalfa, HybriForce-400. This year, they took that up a notch and introduced the next generation – HybriForce-2400 Gen-2.
“It’s giving us a five percent yield advantage over generation one,” said Dairyland Seed Forage Product Manager Chad Staudinger during an interview at World Dairy Expo. “Through the hybrid breeding system we are able to commercially place F1 generation with 100 percent yield potential on-farm.”
Chad says this provides a definite yield advantage for producers and the hybrid system brings with it a uniformity of crop, which ultimately means more uniformity of feed for the animals.
With today’s economic situation in the dairy industry, it is very wise for producers to do all they can to protect the investment they have made in their animals.
At World Dairy Expo, I talked with Lance Fox of Alpharma about maximizing disease protection in the first critical weeks of a calf’s life.
“AS700, or Aureo S 700®, is a management tool, a medication that goes in the feed,” Lance told me. “Transitioning calves, weaning calves, can be a very tough time in their lives, lot of stress going on. It’s a tool to use to help those calves get through that transition a little smoother, maintain their weight gains and ultimately their performance.”
Aureo S 700® is a combination of Aureomycin® (chlortetracycline) and sulfamethazine. Lance says this product has been on the market for 35 years, and Aureo itself is about 58 years old. “So the products have been around a long time and they work just as well today as they did when they were first released.”
What about return on investment? “If you look at the cost of feeding the product for a 28-day feeding period, it’s about $2.50 per head for the entire period,” Lance said. Keeping the calves healthy, preventing disease is the key and that helps the animals perform better and make more milk for the dairyman.
Listen to an interview with Lance below or watch this YouTube interview from World Dairy Expo:
While Wisconsin is in the name of the organization, Executive Director Shelly Mayer says they actually have grown into a network of 1,600 members from eleven states who represent every type and size of dairy operation. “We have producers that are members from Pennsylvania, the Dakotas, California, Arizona – all over the country – because they seek the information that PDPW is providing,” Shelly says.
The organization provides information about topics that are vital and timely for the dairy industry, including animal welfare, environmental and labor issues. They also offer an annual Managers Academy, which will be held January 19-21 in Seattle, that helps producers focus on the business side of their operation.
In addition, PDPW sponsors several workshops, training seminars and tours throughout the year on various topics. For example, coming up October 20-21 is the Dairy Calf & Heifer Tour which visits innovative operations around the state of Wisconsin. A couple of sponsors for that tour are also sponsors of our World Dairy Expo coverage – Charleston Orwig and Novus International.
Posted: October 4, 2009 at 2:14 pm
By Cindy Zimmerman
Frosty may have been crowned the supreme champion at World Dairy Expo 2009 on Saturday night, but it was the legendary Snickerdoodle who stole the show.
The sweet 11-year-old Brown Swiss is an eight-time class winner, six-time World Dairy Expo Champion, and was named Supreme Champion in 2003 and Reserve Supreme Champion in 2008. At six years and nine months of age, she produced 33,426 pounds of milk, 1,405 pounds of fat and 1,176 pounds of protein. Snickerdoodle has produced 315 good embryos in her lifetime. She is a seven time All-American and was also named All Time All-American as a 2-, 4- and 5-year old. Snickerdoodle has over 100 registered offspring in the U.S. with seven nominated All-American and one named All-American. Eighteen sons are currently being sampled in the A.I. industry and fourteen of her son’s daughters have been nominated All-American.
The Supreme Champion was Harvue Roy Frosty, a five-year-old Holstein cow from Rudolph, Wisconsin,exhibited by Mike and Julie Duckett, Jim and Nancy Junemann and Scott Armbrust. Currently classified EX-95, Frosty was bred by Dave and Debra Hardesty of Berryville, Va. Frosty was the 2007 All-American Senior 3-Year-Old, was Intermediate and Reserve Grand Champion and 1st Senior 3-Year-Old of the 2007 International Holstein Show and was nominated All-American Senior 2-Year-Old in 2006.
The most exciting part of World Dairy Expo – is the “Parade of Champions” and the crowning of the Supreme Champion title! The 2009 World Dairy Expo Supreme Champion is Harvue Roy Frosty, a Registered Holstein owned by Duckett, Junemann and Scott of Armbrust, Wis. The 2009 Reserve Supreme Champion is Old Mill E Snickerdoodle, a Registered Brown Swiss owned by Allen Bassler, Jr., Va. Congratulations to the owners of these beautiful animals – and congratulations to all of the dairy cattle showmen for a memorable Expo!
Thank you to the Holstein World for providing video coverage of the Supreme Champion. Visit their youtube channel to view the rest of the 2009 Holstein shows from the World Dairy Expo.
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With all the bad news in the dairy industry, it was nice to hear some positive news for producers at World Dairy Expo.
Paula Meabon, a producer from Pennsylvania who serves on the Dairy Promotion and Research Board, was happy to share some very good news about new dairy products being offered by major restaurant chains. “As a dairy farmer I am really proud of what our dairy checkoff is doing,” Paula says. “Right now we are partnering with McDonalds with the McCafe drinks, which are 80 percent milk-based coffee beverages. So, not only are they good tasting, but they are also good for you with all the dairy that’s in it.” Paula says McDonald’s new Angus burger is also a first for the dairy industry because it has two slices of cheese “not only are they using American slices, but also Swiss.”
In addition, Paula says the checkoff is partnering with Domino’s Pizza on their six new American Legend pizzas with more cheese. “This is 40 percent added cheese on six new cheese pizzas,” she said. “By adding one ounce of cheese to a pizza, that’s 2.6 billion pounds of milk equivalent used in a year.”
Paula notes that the economic situation in the dairy industry right now could be much worse if it were not for the dairy checkoff helping drive demand for dairy products.
Listen to or download my interview with Paula here:
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There were a record 755 companies exhibiting at World Dairy Expo this year, which made it difficult to visit them all, but we did what we could!
One booth I visited was Arm and Hammer Animal Nutrition where I talked with president Curt Siverling who says it has been a challenging year for them along with the rest of the dairy industry, since they are primarily a dairy nutrition focused company. Curt says the economic situation has forced many producers to make some “irrational ration decisions” that will eventually have to be reversed. “What’s encouraging to us, however, is even in this very difficult time, we continue to get dairymen to begin using some of our products for the first time,” Curt said. AH offers seven different branded products, starting with the original sodium bicarbonate buffer where the company started, all of which they back up with university studies that prove return on investment for producers.
I also stopped by the Novartis Animal Health booth to talk about Healthy Heifer™, a new heifer management program designed to maximize the long-term value of dairy replacement heifers through established health and management protocols. Director of Veterinary Services Dr. Doug Scholz says they just launched this program last month. “We try to take a full management approach,” Doug says. “They need to use reproductive vaccines, vaccines to prevent calf scours, but really the program is much deeper than that. Doing the proper nutritional management, proper animal husbandry management, proper deworming – its really an encompassing program.”
Novartis feels that veterinarians need to be the knowledge source for producers, so the program requires the involvement of the herd veterinarian for enrollment. Listen to Doug explain more about Healthy Heifer here:
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BouMatic has been a global leader in innovative dairy farm products and now they can even make your dairy farm smarter.
At World Dairy Expo this week, BouMatic was introducing its brand new Smart Dairy management systems to producers. I talked with Senior Marketing Director John Mansavage about Smart Dairy.
“This is an automation control system for dairy operators,” Mansavage says. “We’ve developed a modular system where all areas of control on the dairy can be managed through a single control access point and the dairyman can do it from his kitchen table, from the parlor itself, from the beach in Miami – wherever it suits him.” He says it just allows producers to be that much more efficient in challenging economic times when efficiency means productivity.
Mansavage is also on the board of directors for World Dairy Expo and he says they were very pleased with the turnout for this year’s event, despite the economic situation for the industry. “Bar none, this is the dairy show – maybe on the planet,” he told me. “we’re real happy with the response we’re getting and the people we’re talking to in the booth – they’re upbeat. This is probably the toughest I’ve ever seen it in 20 some years of being in the dairy business but it’s kind of an amazing optimism that remains and everybody is just getting through it.”
Listen to my interview with John from World Dairy Expo here:
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A global event like World Dairy Expo is a natural fit for a global company like Novus International. “It really fits with the vision of Novus,” says Stephanie Gable, Novus Global Marketing Manager. “One of the things we concentrate on at Novus is actually feeding the world. We want to make sure that we can provide the ingredients to help our customers do a better job of feeding protein to the world. So, we’re here talking about a variety of products that help to increase milk protein, milk fat, milk volume, can help with immunity issues – all for the dairy producers.”
Northeast U.S. sales manager Suzy Demeester says they have a “three legged stool” of products for dairy producers. “ALIMET is the foundation of our products, it is a methionine analog that increases milk production, improves components and also has some health effects,” Demeester says. “We’ve got AGRADO Plus, which is a blend of dietary antioxidants that really helps keep the cows in balance with their oxidative stress, and then MINTREX, a chelated brand of minerals that has a special methionine component to it that also helps contribute to the improvement in component production.”
Demeester says they recently conducted a trial with all three products that resulted in an increase of 10 pounds of milk per cow, plus improvement of components, decrease in somatic cell count and overall profitability improvement for the producer.
Listen to my back-to-back interviews with Stephanie and Suzy from World Dairy Expo here:
Dairy producers and industry representatives from around the globe will gather in Madison, Wisconsin, when World Dairy Expo takes place September 28 – October 1. This year, continuing education credits for dairy professionals, nutritionists, veterinarians and veterinary technicians can be earned by attending the World Dairy Expo Seminars. Members of American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) and the American Association of State Veterinary Boards – RACE Program (RACE) can earn one credit for each seminar they attend.
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Back in 2001, Dairyland Seed released the world’s first hybrid alfalfa, 
“It’s giving us a five percent yield advantage over generation one,” said Dairyland Seed Forage Product Manager Chad Staudinger during an interview at World Dairy Expo. “Through the hybrid breeding system we are able to commercially place F1 generation with 100 percent yield potential on-farm.”
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While Wisconsin is in the name of the organization, Executive Director Shelly Mayer says they actually have grown into a network of 1,600 members from eleven states who represent every type and size of dairy operation. “We have producers that are members from Pennsylvania, the Dakotas, California, Arizona – all over the country – because they seek the information that PDPW is providing,” Shelly says. 
The sweet 11-year-old Brown Swiss is an eight-time class winner, six-time World Dairy Expo Champion, and was named Supreme Champion in 2003 and Reserve Supreme Champion in 2008. At six years and nine months of age, she produced 33,426 pounds of milk, 1,405 pounds of fat and 1,176 pounds of protein. Snickerdoodle has produced 315 good embryos in her lifetime. She is a seven time All-American and was also named All Time All-American as a 2-, 4- and 5-year old. Snickerdoodle has over 100 registered offspring in the U.S. with seven nominated All-American and one named All-American. Eighteen sons are currently being sampled in the A.I. industry and fourteen of her son’s daughters have been nominated All-American.
Paula Meabon, a producer from Pennsylvania who serves on the Dairy Promotion and Research Board, was happy to share some very good news about new dairy products being offered by major restaurant chains. “As a dairy farmer I am really proud of what our 
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“This is an automation control system for dairy operators,” Mansavage says. “We’ve developed a modular system where all areas of control on the dairy can be managed through a single control access point and the dairyman can do it from his kitchen table, from the parlor itself, from the beach in Miami – wherever it suits him.” He says it just allows producers to be that much more efficient in challenging economic times when efficiency means productivity.
A global event like World Dairy Expo is a natural fit for a global company like 
Northeast U.S. sales manager Suzy Demeester says they have a “three legged stool” of products for dairy producers. “