This morning the winners of the National Intercollegiate Judging Contest were announced. Please see the World Dairy Expo website for the results as soon as they can get them posted.
The National 4-H contest awards were presented at a banquet last night and those results are also posted on the World Dairy Expo website.
The International Post-Secondary Judging Contest awards were given out at a breakfast this morning in the Exhibition Hall. For a list of the winners please keep your eye on the World Dairy Expo website. I’m not going to post winners here since you’ll be able to find them there as soon as they can get them posted.
You never know what you’ll find when you wander around the Expo. Here’s the Longview Theater where you can sit down and relax and learn a little.
The General Manager of World Dairy Expo is Tom McKittrick. I found him calm and relaxed this opening morning and interviewed him about how things look early in the first day.
You can listen to my interview with Tom here: 
(1.5MB MP3 File)
The Exhibition Hall is open and it’s big. In fact there’s exhibits everywhere. Inside, outside, down the hallways, in other building, the Coliseum, literally everywhere! It’ll take days to visit them all and I’m not even going to try to take pictures of all of them. This one of Westphalia Surge might give you some idea of how big some of the exhibits are. There’s is not only on two sides of an aisle but them across another aisle that I couldn’t even fit into the picture.
Bring some comfortable walking shoes and learn about all the latest products and technologies here at the Expo.
It’s opening day so “Welcome To World Dairy Expo!” Here’s what you’ll see on the way in. Volunteers in yellow shirts who are all smiling and ready to greet the crowds. I came in early but the gates were already pretty active.
The buildings like the Coliseum are still not open. It’s very quiet inside as you walk by the rows of booths that are all set up and waiting for today’s visitors.
Today’s weather forecast calls for: Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms possible. A few storms may be severe. High 83F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Courtesy of the Weather Channel.
I know everyone is wondering about the results of the competition today. Those results will be available by tomorrow morning and we’ll point you to them. The results are compiled and posted on the World Dairy Expo website but I’ll make sure I get that link and provide here on World Dairy Diary as well.
It’s after 5pm now and I think I’ll close up shop here but I may find a few more pictures to show you on the way out. If so I’ll post them later from the hotel.
I hope you like what you see here on World Dairy Diary. Feel free to comment or email me if you have suggestions.
Just like us people these animals here need good health care.
They get it from people like Dr. Rick Halvorson, Whitewater Veterinary Clinic and 4th year University of Wisconsin-Madison Vet School student Nathan Dorshorst.
These guys are on call and work hard to make sure we have a “healthy herd” here at Expo.
I interviewed them and you can listen to my interview with them here: (3.2MB MP3 File)
This is an international show and you see evidence of that everywhere. This sign welcomes visitors in 11 languages for example.
I’m hoping to interview some foreign visitors. Keep checking back.
As I mentioned previously, these judging contestants are very focused and they have to be. There’s a lot of competition here.
Here’s Lindsay Spencer, on the University of Georgia Dairy judging team. Her Dad commented on a previous post and I was able to email him a picture of her. He couldn’t be here. Of course, that’s what World Dairy Diary is all about!!
I’ve been told that these college contestants will be at it until as late as 9pm tonight to finish giving their “reasons” for their decisions. Sounds like a long, tiring day at the Expo for these students. We wish them all luck.
