Hoard’s Dairyman Blog – More Than Membership

This is my latest post for the Hoard’s Dairyman Blog – HD Notebook

Summer marks the season for barbeques, s’mores around the campfire, and family outings and vacations. In the purebred dairy world, it also marks convention season.

National Ayrshire Convention in Oklahoma and National Milking Shorthorn Convention in Ohio kicked off the 2016 season two weeks ago. National Guernsey Convention wrapped up in Minnesota on Monday as National Holstein Convention was kicking off in New York. Meanwhile, California welcomes the National Jersey Convention to San Diego this week as well.

The 2016 convention season concludes next week when National Red and White Convention visits Maryland and National Brown Swiss Convention is held in Minnesota.

At these gatherings, breeders and enthusiasts meet to celebrate the unique attributes of each breed. They come together from across the country to talk about and plan for the future of the breed as a whole. It is a great time of friendship and fellowship and often those dairy farmers only vacation during the summer…..{Read the rest of More Than just a Membership here}