2024 WORLD DAIRY EXPO
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ALLIANT ENERGY CENTER
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MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA
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EXPO Daily Edition
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Bailey brings it again
IN THIS ISSUE International Junior Jersey Show Results page 5
International Milking Shorthorn Show Results page 7
International Junior Milking Shorthorn Show Results page 10
International Ayrshire Show Results page 18
International Junior Ayrshire Show Results page 19
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Stoney Point Joel Bailey is named Senior and Grand Champion of the Interna onal Jersey Show a er winning the Aged Cow class Oct. 1 in Madison, Wisconsin. Bailey is owned by Vierra Dairy Farms. Spring View Joel Kinsley is named the Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion a er winning the Five-Year-Old class for Budjon Farms and Peter Vail. GMBV Joel Dixie-ET is named the Intermediate and Honorable Men on Grand Champion a er winning the Senior Three-Year-Old class. Dixie is owned by MilkSource Gene cs.
Joel daughters successful in International Jersey Show BY DANIELLE NAUMAN AND MICHELE ACKERMAN Staff Writers
MADISON, Wis. — Stoney Point Joel Bailey successfully returned to Madison to defend her title as Senior and Grand Champion of the International Jersey Show after winning the Aged Cow
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class. Bailey is owned by Vierra Dairy Farms of Hilmar, California. Following Bailey as Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion was Spring View Joel Kinsley, the winning Five-Year-Old, exhibited by Budjon Farms and Peter Vail of Lomira. GMBV Joel Dixie-ET, the winning Senior Three-
Year-Old and Intermediate Champion, was tapped as the Honorable Mention Grand Champion. Dixie is owned by Milk Source Genetics of Kaukauna. Oeh-My Victrous Parade, the winning Four-Year-Old, was named the Honorable Mention Senior Champion. Parade is also owned by Vierra Dairy Farms. Following Dixie as the Reserve Intermediate Champion was the winning Junior Three-Year-Old, Pacific
Edge VIP Tessah-ET, owned by Brent Rocha and Coltan Seals of Tillamook, Oregon. The nod for Honorable Mention Intermediate Champion went to Budjon-Vail Victorious Blayke-ET, the secondplace Junior Three-Year-Old. Blayke was exhibited by Ron and Christy Ratliff Trustees and Mason and Jaxon Gettle of Garnett, Kansas. Turn to INTERNATIONAL JERSEY SHOW| Page 4
Havarti and Gouda from Arla UW-Madison Cheese Stand next to the Arena Building
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Larmer named World Dairy Expo International Person of the Year BY DANIELLE NAUMAN Staff Writer
GUELPH, Ontario — A career spent promoting and advancing dairy cattle genetics has taken Paul Larmer places he may have never dreamed he would go. Larmer, the recently retired CEO of Semex, will be honored as World Dairy Expo’s International Person of the Year, Oct. 2 at the event’s annual Recognition Awards Banquet in Madison, Wisconsin. “It is truly humbling, and I am blessed,” Larmer said of the recognition. “This is not something anyone does alone. It is the result of a collective effort, from both family and colleagues.”
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Paul Larmer reflects on his 40-year career in the dairy industry as he is recognized as World Dairy Expo’s Interna onal Person of the Year. Larmer will be honored at Expo’s Recogni on Awards Banquet Oct. 2.
Growing up on his family’s dairy farm, which was home to a herd of registered Guernseys, Larmer learned many things working along-
side his father, not only about agriculture and the dairy industry, but about the way he wanted to live his life. “My dad was a soft-spo-
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ken, generous, hard-working person,” Larmer said. “He always had time for community, for neighbors. He had a great deal of influence on me, instilling a sense of humility and appreciation for giving back.” With those values in hand, Larmer headed off to the University of Guelph, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in agriculture. “I always enjoyed being on the farm — especially the breeding side of things,” Larmer said. That interest in genetics would become the bread and butter of Larmer’s 40-year career in the world of dairy cattle genetics. Following a three-year stint as a dairy specialist with a feed company after graduation, Larmer joined United Breeders Inc. in 1984 as a sire analyst, where Lowell Lindsay would become a mentor. Turn to LARMER | Page 3
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