In today’s competitive dairy industry, additional cattle come with a price that is not a fit for every dairy. What if there was a way to increase profit without increasing cow numbers? Enter value-added dairy opportunities.

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.

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. After years of struggling with costly and time-consuming loading and unloading methods for hay and straw, Jason Grady decided to do something different.