MADISON, Wis. (RFD News) — World Dairy Expo returns to Wisconsin this weekend, with attendees coming from around the world.
World Dairy Expo General Manager Laura Herschleb said biosecurity will be a major focus during the event.
“We work really closely with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection with their state veterinarian team. We’re meeting with them and working with them quite honestly all year round to just stay up to date on what our various health regulations are gonna be and if there are changes, how does that impact our cattle exhibitors? And then we put those various regulations in place. We work very meticulously and take it very, very seriously how important biosecurity is, not only at World Dairy Expo, but certainly when those cattle exhibitors and that cattle, they go back home.”
Herschleb said the inspection process is meticulous and is made possible through a partnership with veterinary students from the University of Wisconsin.
“As those animals are coming off the trailer, they’re doing a visual inspection. They’re comparing the ear tag number in that 840 or 124 button ear tag that’s in them to the number that’s listed on that CVI to make sure that it’s the same animal. Then also verifying that the correct destination information is listed, that they’re going to World Dairy Expo at the Alliant Energy Center to make sure those dates are all correct. If they have had that successful kind of a review of the CVI, a visual inspection, then they go into their stalling location.”
Events at World Dairy Expo begin Saturday, with the trade show getting underway Tuesday.
