2018 WORLD DAIRY EXPO • ALLIANT ENERGY CENTER • MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA • WWW.WORLDDAIRYEXPO.COM • LISTEN TO SHOW COVERAGE AT 95.7 FM
EXPO DAILY EDITION ATTENDEE INFORMATION
Tuesday's International Attendance: 561 total attendees from 66 countries
In This Issue: Champion Spotlight
page 5
Word on the Street: Attendees page 9
Int'l Person of the Year: Alastair Pearson page 11
Today's Highlights:
7:30 a.m.
Int'l Jersey Show Cows and Groups
10 a.m.
Dairy Forage Seminar
12:30 p.m.
Int'l Milking Shorthorn - Cows and Groups
1:30 p.m.
Dairy Forage Seminar
2 p.m. Int'l Brown Swiss Show - Heifer 4 p.m. Top of the World Jersey Sale 4 p.m. Happy Hour in the Tanbark sponsored by Holland Dairy Valley 5 p.m. WDE Welcome Reception
7 p.m. Dinner with the Stars Recognition Banquet 7:30 p.m.
World Ayrshire Event Sale
SHOWRING RESULTS Text WDERESULTS to 727-493-3976 for showring results
FLAVORS OF THE DAY
Grilled Cheese
Colby made by Bill Hanson at Arena Cheese in Arena, Wis. UW-Madison Cheese Stand next to the Arena Building
Ice Cream
Black Cherry • Cookies & Cream • Elephant Tracks
GEA Ice Cream Stand located in the Exhibition Hall
#WDE18
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018
New stars in the limelight Supreme Champion Heifer awards added to Saturday's ceremonies BY DANIELLE NAUMAN Staff writer
They are names that bring a picture to the mind of every dairy show enthusiast out there: Charity, Snickerdoodle, Veronica. Since 1970, the stars of World Dairy Expo’s breed shows have graced the colored shavings during the Parade of Champions, vying for the title of Supreme Champion. As Expo blazes into “The Next Frontier” during Saturday afternoon’s closing ceremony, a Supreme Champion Heifer for both the open and the junior shows will be named for the first time. “We’ve had a lot of feedback from exhibitors, asking if we would consider having a Supreme Champion Heifer named during the show,” said Dairy Cattle Show Manager Ann Marie Magnochi. The Expo management team is looking forward to the addition of these new awards being more inclusive of a larger spectrum of the show’s exhibitors, further recognizing the elite heifers that parade across the colored shavings, as well as the increased involvement of youth in the heifer classes. “A lot of other shows recognize a Supreme Champion Heifer, so why not Expo?” said Tom Morris, chairman of the Dairy Cattle Exhibitor Committee. This committee, comprised of Dairy Cattle Show exhibitors, has diligently
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Adams Creek AP Bianca-ETV, exhibited by Alyssa Nuttleman of Bangor, Wis., participates in the 2017 Parade of Champions. Bianca was later named Reserve Supreme Champion of the Junior Show. planned for the new award. “We’ve secured some impressive sponsorships and awards for this new initiative,” Magnochi said. Dairy Cattle Show Coordinator Laurie Breuch is excited to welcome the new sponsors to Expo as well and gives the Dairy Cattle Exhibitor Committee credit for turning the idea of a Supreme Champion Heifer selection into a reality for this year.
In the open division, the Junior Champion heifers will wear sashes donated by GHD as they enter the Coliseum for the naming of the Supreme Champions. The Supreme Champion Heifer will be presented the newly-created W. Terry Howard Memorial Award, named in memory of the long-time Expo superintendent and volunteer. Turn to SUPREME | Page 3
A combined 176 years of excellence
Harvestore, WDE together since the beginning
ized upright forage storage. “Harvestore changed the way forages were managed and fed to dairy cows with the first in, first out feeding system and the addition [of] medium moisture forage feeding,” O’Connell said. Harvestores themselves are bottom unloading. With the bottom unloading system, feed that was loaded into the silo first could be fed out first, working inversely when compared to a top-unloading silo. “So, you could be feeding out and filling the same Harvestore on the same day,” O’Connell said. “You can’t do that with a stave or concrete structure.” “The relationship was very close with the dairy industry as we brought this new technology to the industry through land grant universities and sold it through [the company’s] dealer network,” O’Connell shared. In the 1960s, when the company caught wind of a
BY BRITTANY OLSON Staff writer
Take a scenic drive through any prominent dairy area and chances are a few tall, dark blue upright silos are spotted along the way. Those blue tubes, otherwise known as Harvestores, have been dotting the landscape of North America’s milk sheds for generations. Introduced in 1949 by the A.O. Smith company of Milwaukee, Wis., more than 70,000 of these silos would be put up across the land over the course of the next five decades, with the company itself celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. Tim O’Connell, agricultural sales manager for CST Industries, the owning entity of A.O. Smith, shared the rich history behind the innovative technology that revolution-
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Cinderella of the World, Cheryl Johnson, stands in front the Harvestore Trade Show Exhibit during the 1967 World Dairy Expo.
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