Progressive Dairyman caught up with five industry professionals who step away from their main livelihoods for one week of the year to pursue passions close to their hearts. They make their livings doing such things as balancing rations, planning manure pits or selling semen, yet when World Dairy Expo rolls around, they take on a different set of tasks.

Progressive Dairyman asked several companies exhibiting at World Dairy Expo to highlight a few of the new products that will be on display at the show.

Below is a sampling of events that will be sponsored by different companies during World Dairy Expo. Global Dairy Institute The Global Dairy Institute (GDI) (EH 2116B) is a consortium of nine leading companies who offer a full range of services required to create a successful modern dairy operation.

The fall season brings to mind certain memories. For some, it’s the smell of falling leaves and the crisp air. For others, it’s geese flying overhead getting ready to migrate south. However, for the dairy industry, fall has an entirely different set of sights and smells. Grilled cheese sandwiches with butter, fresh tanbark shavings, the buzz of numerous languages being spoken in one location, lines of schoolchildren, friends from across the country seen only once a year. Unmistakably, World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.