Greg Nielsen scoops filling from an ice cream sandwich while judging the healthy frozen desserts category during last month's World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest at Madison Area Technical College in Madison. The contest yielded several winners from Wisconsin.
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Bob Bradley, left, and Katherine Grosz judge the salted caramel category of ice cream during the final day of judging at last month's World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest at Madison Area Technical College. More than 1,550 dairy products were entered in the contest.
Bundled up in a minus 20 degree freezer, an employee at Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream on Madison's East Side carries a container of ice cream last month. The company recently completed a $5 million expansion and took home three first-place awards for its ice cream at the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Products Contest.
In this image from February, workers with Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese package up fresh balls of mozzarella. Crave Brothers in Waterloo, celebrating its 20th year, had the best plain cheese curd and also was tops in the mozzarella category with its fresh marinated mozzarella.
Photos: World Dairy Expo at Alliant Energy Center
Rachel Evans washes Ayrshire cows from Sunny Acres Farm in Georgetown, N.Y. World Dairy Expo draws about 2,000 cows from North America that take part in shows throughout the week.
Mike Maier, right, of Lazy M Farm in Stitzer, with his sister, Laura, at left, and Mike Fiedler, work together to unload hay from a trailer during setup Friday for World Dairy Expo.
The cows have returned to World Dairy Expo after the week-long event was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The Expo begins in full on Tuesday, but on Friday animals began to arrive at the Alliant Energy Center. From left, Dr. Shelby Molina and Dr. Ellen Hooker, both with the state Department of Trade and Consumer Protection's Animal Health, check in a Jersey cow for Allen Berry of Sherwood, Ore.
Dalton Anderson, of Seward, Neb., with the help of Joe Odden, at left, of Sioux Falls, S.D., hangs signs for the Jersey cows from Misty Meadow Dairy in Tillamook, Ore.
Jon Schmidt, of Bloomer, unloads fans for cattle ahead of this year's Expo. Warm temperatures are expected in the days ahead.
Workers set up the World Dairy Expo gift shop inside Exhibition Hall at Alliant Energy Center. The show begins Tuesday and runs through Saturday.
Pins for sale at the World Dairy Expo gift shop inside the exhibition hall at Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis., Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Noah Mensch, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, positions a bedding machine by Mensch Manufacturing for display in the parking lot of the exhibition hall during setup for the World Dairy Expo at Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis., Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
