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Lately, I’ve been listening to classical music in the milking parlor. I do it while spraying it down, when everyone else is gone. Sometimes when searching for the music I wanted I would go too far and land on the classical music station. Usually, I switched it back right away. I surprised myself the first time I didn’t.
Well folks, it is that time of year. There is a chill in the air, the leaves are turning, and deer season is in full effect. So what does this all mean? It means that during our busiest time, every city dweller within 200 miles stops by to tell us how to do our jobs.
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.
“It’s always cheaper to let your cows do the harvesting,” said Laura Paine, grazing broker with Southwest Badger Resource Conservation & Development Council.
In the northern U.S., pasture growth provides forages for only six months, and producing or purchasing hay is often a grazier’s largest expense. In a 2010 study, Paine and other researchers found that pasture cost $14 to $40 a ton, while producing hay costs $70 to $90 per ton, and purchased hay is $90 to $140 a ton – and prices have not gone down.
In July of this year, Cornell Cooperative Extension Service hosted their annual field day at the Robert B. Musgrave Research Farm in Aurora, New York. The farm is in the Finger Lake region of upstate New York, on the eastern edge of Cayuga Lake.
Cattle trailers have begun rolling into Madison today, delivering 2,500 show cows to the Alliant Energy Center for the upcoming World Dairy Expo. To prevent possible disease transmission among the cattle, the health status of each animal must be verified before they are unloaded, and with the help of volunteer students from the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, this three-day process runs as smoothly as possible.
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