The Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence announces their fall Dairy Advocacy and Resource Team “DART” meetings planned for October. These meetings will provide agri-business professionals a unique opportunity to visit dairy/food manufacturing facilities across Pennsylvania at businesses that are staking their future on the success of our dairy industry. Each plant is opening their doors to give facility tours, share … Read More
Progressive Dairyman Proud to Dairy
Progressive Dairyman has announced their new Proud to Dairy logo that all dairymen are welcome to proudly display on their dairy. Additionally, the magazine is seeking video contributions to feature on the new website that explain why you are Proud to Dairy. If dairying is your life, your heritage or in your future, join with your Proud to Dairy peers. … Read More
Rose Reigns Supreme
World Dairy Expo 2008 is now just a memory, and for the owners of Thrulane James Rose, an Excellent 97 point Registered Holstein cow from Quebec, Canada, that memory is supreme. Rose was named the 42nd WDE Supreme Champion. Exhibited by Pierre Boulet of Montmagny, she was bred by Thrulane Holsteins of Elmira, Ontario. Winner of the International Holstein Show’s … Read More
Weekly CWT Export Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has announced their updated export bids for the past week. Eight bids were accepted from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, Mo., five of them for the following AMF exports: 108 metric tons (239,099 lbs.) to Kazakhstan; two separate bids for 54 metric tons (119,050 lbs.) to Mexico; 18 metric tons (39,683 lbs.) to Saudi … Read More
Childhood Nutrition Fitness Initiative On Target
Grant Kohler is a dairy farmer from Utah where he milks 300 cows with a family operation. He was attending World Dairy Expo to talk about the Childhood Nutrition Fitness Initiative that’s a joint project of the National Dairy Council and the National Football League. He says, “It brings a package not just to the cafeteria of the school but … Read More
Getting GEA Farm Technology Feedback
Last week GEA Farm Technologies was announced as the new “brand” for WestfaliaSurge, Houle and Norbco. Before Expo was over I spoke with Linda Mrugacz, Director, Marketing & Communications. I wanted to find out what kind of feedback they had been receiving from producers attending the show. According to Linda, “Actually, it’s going very well. There’s a lot of interest … Read More
Silage That's All About Fiber Digestability
After the virtual farm tour that BASF Plant Science sponsored at World Dairy Expo, I spoke again with Jerry Weigel, Global Nutrition Manager, about their Nutridense silage product. He says there’s a real distinction between what they’re doing and what other companies are doing. “We are focused in two different directions. We are focused on a grain direction and a … Read More
World Dairy Expo Summary
The World Dairy Expo is over and I just received a summary of facts you might be interested in. Total Attendance: 68,317 (Last year’s attendance was 67,143) International Guests: 2,884 from 84 countries (2007: 2,967 from 90 countries) Top five countries of international attendance: Canada (479), Mexico (256), Netherlands (190), United Kingdom (143), Germany (141) Commercial Exhibitors: 724 companies from … Read More
Meet Ashley Huibregtse
The 2008-2009 Alice in Dairyland is Ashley Huibregtse. She serves June to June and promotes agriculture all over the state. I met her at this year’s World Dairy Expo. She says she’s “an ambassador for everything from the dairy industry which we have here at World Dairy Expo, to cranberries, cherries and ginseng.” Her travels take her to media interviews, … Read More
Nutridense Trial Shows Higher Protein Percentage
The main presenter at the SUNY Cobleskill virtual farm tour was Tom Poltynski, farm coordinator. He talked about the school’s facility and says it’s unique because they’re very far north for using a flush system. He says they have good student involvement as evidenced by the fact that more students apply for jobs than are available. One of the things … Read More