Dairy Foundation to sponsor bus tour of Wisconsin dairies in November

The Northeast Iowa Community-Based Dairy Foundation have begun accepting registrations for a two-day tour of Wisconsin dairies on November 10th and 11th.
 
The tour bus will depart from Iowa's Dairy Center in Calmar at 7:00 a.m. Thursday, November 10th.  It will make stops that day at Genex Cooperative, Inc., Milk Source's Tidy View Dairy and MilkSource Genetics. After an overnight stay in Little Chute, Wisconsin, participants will tour Lely robots at Wichman Farms, an automatic calf feeding system at Meadow Brook Dairy and on-farm processing at Sassy Cow Creamery. The bus will arrive back in Calmar around 8:30 p.m. Friday, November 11th.  
 
For more information and to register, contact Megan Kregel, Iowa's Dairy Center coordinator, at kregelm@nicc.edu or Jennifer Bentley, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, at jbentley@iastate.edu. Additional information on tour stops and trip cost is available at http://iowadairycenter.com/dairy_tours.php. Registrations are due Oct. 20.
 
Sponsors of this dairy tour include the Northeast Iowa Dairy Foundation, Genex Cooperative Inc., Lely, the Leopold Center and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.