2023 WORLD DAIRY EXPO • ALLIANT ENERGY CENTER • MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA • WWW.WORLDDAIRYEXPO.COM • 95.7 FM
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DAILY EDITION Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023
IN THIS ISSUE
Uno for the win
Creating the Dynasty page 6
National 4-H Judging Contest Results page 9
Junior Guernsey Results page 15
International PostSecodary Judging Results
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Springhill Kojack Uno-ETV is named Senior and Grand Champion of the Interna onal Guernsey Show a er winning the Aged Cow Class Oct. 2 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Valley Gem Atlas Malt-ET, the winning Life me Produc on Cow, is named Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion. Cape May La mer Honey, the winning Summer Junior Two-Year-Old, is named Intermediate and Honorable Men on Grand Champion.
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National Intercolligate Judging Contest Results
hill Kojack Uno-ETV. Uno, the tion honors went to Cape May ly, the top-placing Junior TwoWisconsin cow winning Aged Cow, was named Latimer Honey, the winning Year-Old, was awarded Reand Grand Champion Summer Junior Two-Year-Old, serve Intermediate Champion tops International Senior for the partnership of Meland- who was named Intermediate recognition. Blakely was exhibGuernsey Show er, Robthom and Smith-Crest Champion for owner Savannah ited by Brittany Taylor, Grace
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BY DANIELLE NAUMAN Staff Writer
MADISON, Wis. — At the end of the day, the last cow standing in the International Guernsey Show was Spring-
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of Watertown. Following Uno as the Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion was Valley Gem Atlas Malt-ET. Malt was the winning Lifetime Production Cow owned by Valley Gem Farm of Cumberland. Honorable Men-
Thomas of West Liberty, Ohio. Kadence Fames Lovely, the second-place Aged Cow, was selected as the Honorable Mention Senior Champion. She is owned by Kadence Farm of New Glarus. Hickman Valleys S Blake-
Schuler and Laylaa Schuler of New Glarus. Heritage Brook Lb Trillium-ET was selected as the Honorable Mention Intermediate Champion. Trillium, Turn to OPEN GUERNSEY | Page 11
Grilled Cheese Fuego Jack (Colby Jack with peppers) made in Arena, Wis.
Evolving together
UW-Madison Cheese Stand next to the Arena Building
Ice Cream Caramel Collision Cookie Monster • Shipwreck GEA Ice Cream Stand located in the Exhibition Hall
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Select Sires Inc. grows alongside World Dairy Expo BY AMY KYLLO Staff Writer
PLAIN CITY, Ohio — The year was 1987. A brighteyed freshman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Badger Dairy Club was stepping onto the grounds to work at his first World Dairy Expo, quite unaware of the impact the event would have on his life. The freshman’s name was Kevin Jorgensen, and today he is a six-year member of the WDE Board of Directors and a three-year member of the Executive Committee. “World Dairy Expo was my gateway to seeing the greater dairy industry as a whole,” Jorgensen said. Jorgensen is also a 25year employee of Select Sires Inc., one of the very companies that started his Expo
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Kevin Jorgensen is a 25-year employee of Select Sires Inc., which has been a sponsor of WDE each year since Expo began. Jorgensen is also a six-year member of the World Dairy Expo Board of Directors and a three-year member of the Execu ve Commi ee. story and continues to make WDE began in 1967. The so many others’ Expo stories company remained a sponpossible. Currently, Jorgensen sor each year of the show and is the senior Holstein sire ana- has held one or more seats on lyst at Select Sires Inc. and the Board of Directors every has been with the cooperative year, including when Al Demsince 1998. ing served as WDE president Select Sires Inc. was only from 2015-2019. Currently, a two-year-old company when the company is a Five Star
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Sponsor. “We've grown and evolved just as World Dairy Expo has evolved,” Jorgensen said. “(It) has given us a great opportunity to be involved in the event and synergistically let the world know who Select Sires was and is.” Over the years, as other companies that have been part of the show have become part of Select Sires Inc., it has further developed a sense of rootedness between their organization and WDE. Select Sires Inc. is also involved in the youth development at WDE and helps sponsor the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge. Jorgensen said he hopes that other young lives will change like his did because of WDE. “Hopefully, someday there's some kid from some place of parts unknown that comes to their first World Turn to SELECT SIRES | Page 7
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