2017 WORLD DAIRY EXPO • ALLIANT ENERGY CENTER • MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA • WWW.WORLDDAIRYEXPO.COM • 95.7 FM
Expo Daily Edition Friday, October 6, 2017
ATTENDEE INFORMATION Thursday's ATTENDANCE: 14,230 total attendees International attendees: 1,725 from 84 countries
In This Issue: Champion Spotlight of Int'l Junior Brown Swiss Show page 5
One-OnOne with Cybil Fisher page 10
Commercial exhibitors join efforts for The Real Faces of Dairy page 12
The Word On The Street page 14
Today's highlights: 4 p.m. Happy Hour at The Tanbark, sponsored by Slot Drain Systems 5 p.m. International Reception 8 p.m. Expo in the Evening Find today's full list of events in the Official Program or daily schedule available at information booths around the grounds.
SHOWRING RESULTS Text WDERESULTS to 727-4-WDEXPO for showring results
FLAVORS OF THE DAY Grilled Cheese Smoked Gouda
UW-Madison Cheese Stand next to the Arena Building
ICE CREAM
Birthday Cake • Ship Wreck • French Silk
GEA Ice Cream Stand located in the Exhibition Hall
#WDE2017
Behind the scenes clean up Uphoff hauls manure, milk at WDE for 30 years BY KRISTA KUZMA Staff writer
Walking through the aisles of the New Holland Pavilions at the Alliant Energy Center, people are sure to see a variety of sights – a cow being milked using portable equipment by one of its caretakers; high caliber animals resting comfortably upon large, carefully manicured packs of straw and sawdust; or a member of a show string lunging a tub towards the back end of a cow as she lifts her tail. What happens to all that milk, straw, sawdust and manure? That is where Kendal Uphoff and his crew come in. For the past 30 years, Uphoff Company, Inc., has been working behind the scenes at World Dairy Expo to make sure the waste cows produce has an appropriate place to be hauled in order to keep the grounds clean. About five years ago, the company added milk hauling to its daily routine during the event. “There’s a lot of work involved, but it’s better than going to the landfill with it,” Uphoff said. The partnership between Uphoff Company and World Dairy Expo came about because the Uphoffs had the right equipment. “My brother, Kevin, had wheel loaders and Bobcats
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Badger Dairy Club members collect 5-gallon pails of milk and pour them into mini bulk tanks before the milk is loaded into Kendal Uphoff's truck during the 2014 World Dairy Expo. [from his landscaping business] for loading manure. I’m in the trucking business, and I’m also a grain farmer with over 1,500 acres of land. Someone from Expo called us and asked if we would be interested in helping them get rid of the manure. That’s how it got started,” said Uphoff, who is based out of Deerfield, Wis. A typical day starts at the grounds at 4 a.m. There is one area on the grounds dedicated to pile the manure until it is hauled away. Using skidloaders and a tractor with a dumpbox, members of the Badger Dairy
Club (BDC) bring the manure from the buildings to the pile. “Then we pull our semis up, load it up and go on our way,” Uphoff said. Using three semi-trailers and one wheel loader, the Uphoff crew hauls about ten, 15ton loads per day to land Uphoff owns just south of Madison. “I stockpile it out there, and then I spread it on the fields,” he said. “I try to work it out that I have wheat growing on those fields so it will be harvested by the time Expo rolls around. Then I can start spreading right away.”
If he doesn’t have the right crop planted, Uphoff has a cement pad that can hold a whole Expo-worth of manure. “We made that because, rain or shine, that show has to go on. If it’s pouring rain I can’t get out in the field, so I have to have a place to dump and hold it,” Uphoff said. Usually, the daily manure hauling is done by 10 a.m. At the end of Expo, Uphoff also cleans out the Pavilions, totaling 200 semi-loads of Turn to UPHOFF | Page 7
International experiences abound at Expo Universities work to facilitate a variety of learning experiences BY DANIELLE NAUMAN Staff writer
World Dairy Expo provides a global stage for the dairy industry. In 2016, more than 3,100 international visitors from 102 different countries made their way to the Alliant Energy Center to feast upon the week of dairy innovation and pageantry. Both the University of WisconsinRiver Falls (UW-River Falls) and The Ohio State University (OSU) play unique rolls in facilitating many of these international visits. “We work collaboratively with a variety of agencies, organizations and institutions,” said Carolyn Brady of the UWRiver Falls International Partnership and Outreach Programs office. “Each year we develop specialized training experiences for international participants.” Brady said that their organization uses World Dairy Expo as a piece of the puzzle when building programming, which is all dairy-related. “It’s such a unique event, and attend-
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A group of international students from China visit World Dairy Expo as part of The Ohio State University's agricultural foreign exchange student program. ing it is special for international guests,” Brady said. The UW-River Falls program works with the USDA Foreign Ag Services and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture,
Trade and Consumer Protection to help accommodate groups from countries such as China, Brazil and Pakistan, among sevTurn to INTERNATIONAL | Page 3