The 2007 World Dairy Expo is over and it ended with a great Parade of Champions. You can see pictures of all the action in my photo album. There’s 242 of them in there! Here’s your Supreme Champion, Indian Acres Mm Pistachio Pie, Ashley Elise Sears, So. Deerfield, MA . Jersey was the Reserve Supreme Champion, Llolyn Jude Griffen-et, Peter …
International Forum for Women in Dairying
It’s the final day of World Dairy Expo and things are getting more relaxed for the agriblogger. It’s also a lot quieter here in the media room. We’re down to the die-hards I guess. During our media talk session Kathy LaScala wanted to talk about the International Forum for Women in Dairying. I asked her what this is all about. …
Creating Farm Podcasting Listeners
You’ve got to love all the companies that are giving away iPods to producers so they can listen to our farm podcasts! Take Schering-Plough which is giving away an iPod here at World Dairy Expo (Booth 3817). That’ll be one more dairy producer who can subscribe to our Milking Parlor podcast. The idea of listening to content when you want …
Badger NAMA Chapter Meeting
The Badger chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association held a meeting here at Expo and members from other chapters around the country were invited to attend. It provided a great opportunity for networking and we had a program too. On hand was Leigh Rubin, syndicated comic artist. We were welcomed by chapter President, Betsy Francoeur, Bader Rutter. Afterward some of …
LPC Meets With Dairy Woman of the Year
The Livestock Publications Council met for breakfast with the Dairy Woman of the Year, Deborah Lee Reinhart, a producer from New Holstein, Wisconsin. She’s pictured third from the left in the front row Diane Johnson, LPC Executive Director gave us an update on some of the regional workshops as well as the Gala Banquet at the American Royal in a …
Farm Podcasting at World Dairy Expo
I’m not the only farm podcaster here at World Dairy Expo. You can find DairyCast on display in the main exhibit hall building. If you’re feeling all stressed out then you should stop by for a stress release cow. Host Ned Arthur is wandering around recording sessions and interviews for current and upcoming episodes of the program. I’m sure the …
National Dairy Animal Well-Being Initiative Announced
This morning at World Dairy Expo a producer-led coalition of dairy groups and companies announced the National Dairy Animal Well-Being Initiative. They’re proposing dairy animal well-being guidelines and principles. The effort held a press conference with several speakers. One of the groups participating in the effort is the National Milk Producers Federation. I spoke with their Senior Vice President of …
Welcome AgWired Contributor Melissa Sandfort
Just in case you’ve been wondering who the “Melissa” is that’s been posting our Zimfo Bites, it’s Melissa Sandfort. Melissa has just accepted a job with the Cattlemen’s Beef Board as their Trade Media Manager. We want to congratulate her on that and tell her boss, Tom Ramey, CBB CEO, that he’s got a good one. In fact, I just …
Getting a Charleston|Orwig Dairy Perspective
In case you’d like a little more dairy news today I thought you might enjoy this. A quiet place to get away from the crowd at World Dairy Expo is the Charleston|Orwig suite in the Coliseum where they hold meetings and entertain clients. Since Charleston|Orwig is one of our sponsors for coverage of World Dairy Expo this year, I did …
New Media Coverage of World Dairy Expo
It’s been a busy morning of interviews here at World Dairy Expo. Cindy and I are now editing away here in the media room. We’re shooting interviews on video from which we can take the audio so we can feed the Milking Parlor Podcast and post. An example is my interview this morning with Jerry Weigel, who represents our sponsor, …