When I saw a booth that posed the question, “How is a cow like an ethanol production plant?” I had to stop for a visit. Manning the booth is Nick Baker, U. S. Dairy Forage Research Center. Nick says that basically the cow’s rumen uses microbes to break down forage and feed into the energy it needs much like an … Read More
National Dairy Shrine Having Great Year
The National Dairy Shrine is having a great year according to board member Tommy Martin. Tommy is an old friend of mine (he’s not old) from my home state of Florida. He works for Merial. I found him in the trade show this morning and asked him to give me an update on how the National Dairy Shrine is doing. … Read More
Original Wisconsin Lei'd Back Guy
When you go to Hawaii you get a nice lei of flowers when you get off the plane. When you go to Wisconsin it’s bratwurst and cheese. It’s the Original Wisconsin Lei. The Lei’d Back inventor is Steve Rheaume. He says he’s sold over 3,000 of these so far and they’re becoming very popular for football games and wherever you … Read More
Promoting Wisconsin Cheese for WMMB
Kay Zwald is a Wisconsin dairy producer doing some promotional work here at Expo. She’s been on the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board for about a year. This morning she’s here promoting Wisconsin dairy and cheese to consumers and talking with producers. Kay says that producers are most often asking what’s being done with their funds to promote the industry. She … Read More
Final Day of Expo Underway
It’s a beautiful day here at World Dairy Expo. The sun’s shining and the crowd is growing. I’m going to be here all the way through the parade of champions which is scheduled for 5pm this evening. Today’s schedule looks like this: 7:15 AM 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl 8:00 AM International Holstein Show – cows & groups 11:00 AM Education … Read More
Precision Agriculture For Dairy Producers
Dairy producers are looking at precision agriculture equipment to help them become more efficient according to Mid-State Equipment’s Chuck Endres. Chuck is exhibiting here at Expo and says that the farmers he’s been talking with are in a very optimistic mood. When it comes to precision equipment he says the biggest benefit to dairy producers is dealing with moisture when … Read More
International Forum for Women in Dairying
The International Forum for Women in Dairying will be holding its global dairy conference prior to the 2008 World Dairy Expo according to Kathy LaScala, chairperson. Kathy was on hand for our media talk session so I asked her what this is all about. She says you can find out more on their website. The dates are September 28 & … Read More
Get a Dairy Checkoff Update From Paula Maebon
Paula Maebon is on the Dairy Checkoff board. She was on hand here at Expo to talk about what the Checkoff is doing for dairy producers. For one thing she says they’re working hard to make sure the public has a good image of dairy producers. For that reason they created the DairyFarmingToday.org website. It provides consumers with lots of … Read More
Barn Photo
Cindy says that I need to get more pictures of cows on here. I’m trying. Things have been busy working with our sponsors and with interviews with people who have been around the media room. This afternoon I got to spend a couple hours wandering around on a photo shoot so you can find more in the photo album. I’m … Read More
Win an iPod at Schering Plough
We’ve got to say that we’re really happy to see Schering-Plough giving away an iPod (Booth 3817). That’ll be one more dairy producer who can subscribe to our Milking Parlor podcast. The beauty of the podcast and iPod is that you can subscribe to our interviews from here at Expo and ones we do in the future and receive them … Read More