World Dairy Expo is pleased to announce that they will be hosting the International Jersey Show in 2012. Jersey breeders have competed at World Dairy Expo for forty-five years, since the very first show in Madison in 1967. The quantity of Jersey show entries has grown steadily over time and today’s competition draws in over 360 animals that compete on the colored shavings.
General Manager, Mark Clarke, shares, “This is a tribute to the Jersey dairy cattle exhibitors, as the quality of that breed show at World Dairy Expo continues to get better each year. We were quite pleased that the American Jersey Cattle Association Board of Directors raised the Expo Jersey Show to international status. It makes sense as the best Jerseys from the United States and Canada travel to Madison each fall, making it truly an international competition.”
“Dairymen expect to see Jersey’s best at World Dairy Expo,” says Neal Smith, Executive Secretary & Chief Executive Officer of the American Jersey Cattle Association. “They can because of the strong turn-out for the Jersey show from top U.S. and Canadian breeders, and because the world’s best A.I. companies go all out in the trade show to feature their Jersey bull line-ups. In every respect, World Dairy Expo is an international Jersey marketplace.”
In recent years the Central National Jersey show has grown to become the second largest breed show at World Dairy Expo. Over the last 20 years the Jersey show has doubled the number of animals shown. Jersey exhibitors traveled to Expo from twenty-four states and four provinces to compete in 2011.
Source: World Dairy Expo