The entry deadline for the standard and brown midrib corn silage is Thursday, Aug. 14. The deadline for all other forage samples including dairy hay, haylage, bagelage, commercial hay and grass hay is Thursday, Sept. 4.
The official entry form and contest rules can be found on the contest’s page on the World Dairy Expo’s website. The cost to enter is $25 per sample and includes complete nutritional analysis of forage samples.
Over $22,000 in cash prizes will be awarded during the Mycogen Seeds Forage Superbowl Luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 1, including $1,500 for each category winner and quality counts award in silage and hay/haylage. Additional cash prizes will be awarded to the Grand Champion Forage, First-Time Entrant winner and second through fourth places in each category.
All winning entries will be on display in the Arena Building at World Dairy Expo. Finalists will be notified in September and invited to attend the Mycogen Seeds Forage Superbowl Awards Luncheon in Madison, Wisconsin.
Cash awards are made possible thanks to generous sponsors, including platinum sponsor, Mycogen Seeds. Additional sponsors include Ag-Bag, Agri-King, Barenbrug USA, Blue River Hybrids, Croplan by Winield, Kemin, Kuhn North America, National Hay Association, Nexgrow alfalfa and W-L Research.
The World Forage Analysis Superbowl is organized in partnership with Dairyland Laboratories Inc., DairyBusiness Communications, Hay & Forage Grower, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison and World Dairy Expo. FG
—From World Dairy Expo news release
