![]() Jacob Leum of the Westby, Wisconsin FFA chapter showed his way to top the FFA Showmanship Contest. Over 3,200 FFA members attended World Dairy Expo and many participated in the Central National FFA Events. In the National 4-H Contest, New York team won, while Andrew Kern of Minnesota was named the Top Individual Overall. College with one of their team members, Rocco Cunningham topping the Overall Individual ranking. The International Post-Secondary Contest top team was Modesto Jr. ![]() The National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging was won in a very close race by the Cornell University team and Carissa Levash of the University of Wisconsin-Madison earned the Overall Top Individual title. Youth Showmanship-Junior division was topped by Cole Booth of Pymouth, Wisconsin, while the Intermediate division was won by Tori Evert of Brooklyn, Wisconsin and Senior division award was captured by Janelle Remington of Juneau, Wisconsin. The Youth Fitting Contest was won by Lee Morey of Rochester, Alberta. Youth contests also set record levels of participation. Visitors from Canada, Mexico, Ireland, China and Germany topped the list of international guests during the five-day event. Total attendance for World Dairy Expo was 68,006 visitors, with 2,699 registered international guests from 90 countries. Commercial exhibitors represented 28 countries this year. The trade show set new participation levels with 810 exhibiting companies on-site displaying everything needed for dairy cattle management. Junior Show Supreme Champion was awarded to South Mountain Voltage Spice-ET, Grand Champion of the Central National Jersey Junior Show, exhibited by Ben Sauder, Tremont, Illinois. Eastside Lewisdale Gold Missy, Grand Champion of the International Holstein Show, was crowned Supreme Champion and was exhibited by Morsan Farms, Van Ruinen Dairy Ltd., Mark Butz and Gert Andreasen Ponoka, Alberta. They converged to the show site from 37 states and seven Canadian provinces to vie for the coveted Grand Champion and Supreme Champion titles. This year a record 2,587 head of dairy cattle were exhibited by 1,130 exhibitors. The Dairy Cattle Show continues to attract elite show cattle fans from around the globe. The 2011 World Dairy will go down in history as a record-setting success. The awards and ribbons are being brought out of the show boxes, producers are dreaming of how to incorporate newly discovered management tips into their operations and commercial exhibitors are busy following up on the new contacts made while at the event. All of the cattle are back home resting as well as those dairy industry folks that participated at this year's big event.
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