2006 Virtual Dairy Expo
Presented by Dairy Herd Management magazine

Walk our trade-show floor and take a look at the new products, research and technology, and
producer services, or just see what some of these companies can do to
help you with your business.

Key: = New Products = Research and Technology = Producer Services
Balchem Corporation advances the area of “protection nutrition.” It benefits dairy production through the use of patented proprietary encapsulation and chelated trace mineral technologies.  Encapsulation assures nutrient availability when and where it most benefits the animal. Encapsulate-protected products include Reashure® choline, Nitroshure™ urea, Niashure™ Niacin, and Vitashure™ Vitamin C. Part of Balchem’s commitment to the protection nutrition area includes the recent acquisition of Chelated Minerals Corporation, a long-time leader in KEYLATED® organic mineral production and marketing.  Today’s focus at Balchem is researching and developing products and technologies for tomorrow’s dairy cow.
   
NutriDense® is premium-quality, nutritionally enhanced silage. Better palatability and improved fiber digestion can mean increased dry matter intake for your cows and maximized output for you. University research and on-farm trials show milk increases of up to 3 pounds per head per day.*
Of course, storage is also an important part of maintaining silage quality. We’re making it easy to preserve the quality of your NutriDense silage by offering a free Ag-Bag** when you purchase a minimum of 24 bags of NutriDense silage. See the difference with NutriDense silage: in the field, in the bag and in the tank.
Visit www.nutridense.com or call 800-233-8942 for more information and a list of partners who carry NutriDense silage.
*Results may vary. **Limit one free Ag-Bag per customer. Program registration deadline is March 1, 2007.
©2006 BASF Plant Science L.L.C. All rights reserved. NutriDense is a registered trademark of BASF Plant Science L.L.C. Ag-Bag and Tri-Dura are registered trademarks of Miller-St. Nazianz, Inc.
   
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. specializes in the research and the production of biologicals and specialty pharmaceuticals for the cattle industry.  Come to our booth to enter our Free Drawing and learn more about Diaque™, an oral nutritional supplement that is a flexible solution for stressed calves, and Bovikalc®, a unique calcium supplement in bolus form designed for the freshening dairy cow.  Information on BIVI vaccine combinations including Breed-Back® FP, Express®, Pulmo-guard™,   Alpha™-7/MB-1, and Ocu-guard™ MB-1 will also be available. Visit www.productionvalues.com or call BIVI technical services at 1-800-325-9167.
   
Diets deliver more than ingredients. That’s why Cargill considers nutrients to be the foundation. Our sharper focus in defining, assessing and delivering nutrients leads to stronger dairy animal performance. This is how Cargill works with customers. Explore our approach at cargillanimalnutrition.com.
   
WANT MORE MILK?
Cottonseed is an excellent feed ingredient for cattle, especially lactating cows. It has a high level of energy (fat), protein, and effective fiber. Cottonseed has the potential to increase milk production and butterfat when added to the ration. EasiFlo™ cottonseed is fuzzy cottonseed that has been coated with starch to improve handling characteristics.
   
Make Sure Your Corn Hybrids
Are SilageProven SilageProven™ DEKALB ® products offer the benefits of higher net energy and better digestibility for milk production.*In addition to impressive silage performance, DEKALB stands out in yield performance. With DEKALB, strong roots and stalks provide superior standability so producers can count on higher yield potential. With SilageProven products from DEKALB, producers can get the most from their fields and their cattle.For more information on SilageProven products or to request a DEKALB 2007 seed resource guide, visit www.DEKALB.com. DEKALB ® is a registered trademark of DeKalb Genetics Corporation. SilageProven™ is a trademark of Monsanto Technology LLC. ©2006 Monsanto Company. *Based on 2005-2005 Monsanto and third party data.
   
Rumensin® for Dairy Cows
Rumensin is the only FDA-approved feed ingredient for lactating and dry cows that increases milk-production efficiency* by economically delivering more milk per pound of feed while maintaining the natural wholesomeness of milk.
    *Production of marketable solids-corrected milk per unit of feed intake
    Rumensin® is a trademark for Elanco's brand of monensin sodium
© 2005 Elanco Animal Health
    Elanco Animal Health
    A Division of Eli Lilly and Company
    2001 West Main Street
    Greenfield, IN 46140
    Web site: www.Rumensindairy.com
    Phone: 800-428-4441
   
At Calf-Tel “We house success.” The industry's #1 choice for calf housing. Calf-Tel products by Hampel Corp. offer a complete line of the most durable hutches and accessories in the industry: Calf-Tel Pro and Calf-Tel Deluxe individual hutches and the Multi-Max, group-housing hutch. Now introducing the brand new Calf-Tel Pen System. The NEW Calf-Tel Pen System promises to be the most innovative pen system on the market. With all the advantages of the Calf-Tel calf-raising systems integrated into a cost-effective, expandable and management conscious system, we’re taking our experience indoors! Let Calf-Tel products help you improve heard health along with your bottom line.
   
Making the right management decisions is the key to future performance. ImmuCell helps make this possible by providing you with innovative tools to improve animal health and productivity in your herd. First DefenseÒ, a market leader in calf scours prevention, is the only USDA approved product with indications for the reduction of mortality and morbidity from scours caused by K99+ E.coli and coronavirus. Also available are products from our Intelligent Mastitis Managementä line: Wipe OutÒ Dairy Wipes - The One Step Cow PrepÒ, CMT, and MASTiKÒ - Mastitis Antibiotic Susceptibility Test; and rjt™ - Rapid Johne’s Test for confirmation of clinical Johne’s disease.
   
Kuhn Knight Introduces Four New Mid-Size
Front-Discharge Vertical Mixer Models
Kuhn Knight, Inc., of Brodhead, Wisconsin, introduces four new Vertical Maxx mixer models. These models are the newest mid-size, twin-auger vertical mixers with new features designed for dairy and beef operators to help them mix and place a quality ration in front of their animals. Changes were made to the tub design, vertical mixing auger, discharge location, discharge conveyor, drive system and mixer dimensions. This new redesign improves mix quality, discharge consistency and loading height. These Vertical Maxx twin-auger mixer sizes range from 320 to 680 cubic feet mixing capacity.
   
Get your dairy ready for 4.8 pounds more milk per cow per day. Prepare the tanks and call in the trucks. Mycogen® brand Silage-Specific™ BMR corn hybrids deliver more digestibility to increase your milk production. Sixteen university and independent scientific reports published since 1999 show cows fed our BMR corn hybrids produced an average of 4.8 pounds more milk per cow per day than cows fed non-BMR corn hybrids. And with strong agronomics, in-plant insect protection and herbicide tolerance technology, you better get ready for more tonnage, too. Visit www.Silage-Specific.com for more university trial and tonnage information.
   
Novartis Animal Health US, Inc. introduces Vira Shield® 6+L5HB-- the first and only inactivated viral vaccine available in combination with L. hardjo-bovis. Moreover, it’s the only vaccine to feature 3-way BVD coverage, including: cytopathic (CP) Type 1, noncytopathic (NCP) Type 1 and NCP Type 2. Call 1-800-843-3386 or visit www.livestock.novartis.com for more information.
   
New ScourGuard® 4KC is the first and only scours vaccine with demonstrated rotavirus G6 and G10 protection, delivering unparalleled broad-spectrum protection with a longer and more flexible vaccination window. Stop calf scours from robbing your profitability. Upgrade to ScourGuard 4KC today.
   
PowerAutomation Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures products for agricultural automation. We produce the PumpMizer, FlowMizer, both VSD’s. Newest is the DairyMatic integrateing all milking processes (Clean-in-place, milking, delivery, and storage) and making available to the farmer real-time access to data. Service is our distinction! Come see us: Arena Booth #423.
   
Prince Agri Products is Advancing Nutrition for Healthy Animals through basic nutrition ingredients including micro/macro and organic minerals, premixes, vitamins, amino acids and colorants; and a growing line of advanced nutrition ingredients including OmniGen-AF, Procreatin7, Animate and other products. We help produce healthy animals through basic and advanced nutrition ingredients.
   
Helping Farmers Do Dairy Since 1994  Udder Tech, Inc. offers a full line of products to help dairy producers do their jobs faster and easier while staying clean and dry. Keep towels at your side with our popular Cloth Towel Aprons and Paper Towel Totes. Milking in a parlor? You’ll love our Waterproof Parlor Pullover Jacket!Come see us in the Arena Building Booth #501-503 at the World Dairy Expo. Also, check us out online at www.uddertechinc.com - now with online ordering!   Udder Tech, Inc.    27605 Pillsbury Ave.    Lakeville, MN 55044    Tel: 952-461-2890    Toll Free: 888-438-8683    Email: info@uddertechinc.com
   
Bovi-Bond, the industry leader in cow blocking adhesives, is proud to offer a complete range of blocking products for dairy cows. Bovi-Bond is conveniently packaged in 180cc cartridges for large dairies and 20cc tubes for smaller dairies and veterinarians. Our blocks range from hard wood to rubber ensuring unsurpassed comfort and protection. Contact us today for more information!
   
Looking for profitable and efficient solutions for your dairy operation? Then, WestfaliaSurge invites you to visit our display at World Dairy Expo as we feature our world leading milking equipment, satisfaction guaranteed hygiene products and complete line of dairy supplies. You will not want to miss seeing our fully operational PediCuRx, Foot Care Management System. It’s the solution to one of the biggest concerns dairy producers face today – hairy heel warts and their prevention. Come see all that’s new and more, and also visit us online at www.westfaliasurge.com for more information!
   
 
 
ARM & HAMMER Animal Nutrition delivers a complete package of innovative dairy nutrition solutions spanning the phases of a cow’s lifecycle. The ARM & HAMMER Portfolio for Profitability™ combines products, services and expertise not matched by any other company.   MEGALAC-R Omega-3 and Omega-6 Essential Fatty Acids delivers more pregnancies, calves and profits. FERMENTEN Rumen Fermentation Enhancer makes each pound of milk more profitable.   DCAD Plus Feed Grade Potassium Carbonate delivers more milk per lactation.  BIO-CHLOR Rumen Fermentation Enhancer offers a more profitable transition. By incorporating these products into herds' rations, the profitability potential and herd health impacts can add at least $100 more profit/cow to your operation.
   
Keep more money in your pocket using dairy management software tools available from DHI-Provo. Improve accuracy of data recording and increase protocol compliance with the Pocket DHI-Plus™ software and RFID technology. Analyze data quickly and easily with DHI-Plus™ Dairy Custom Reports and Calving Cohort Analysis. EZFeed™ for Windows® software takes feed management to a whole new level with the latest technology available.
   
Diamond V Yeast Culture is recognized the world over for optimizing digestion and maximizing animal performance. Only Diamond V Yeast Culture is fully fermented to release the metabolites that digestive microbes need to thrive. Metabolites are the by-product of yeast after full fermentation and provide stable, uniform and uniquely available nutrition while reducing the impact of temperature, humidity and other handling processes.
Years of research demonstrate that Diamond V Yeast Culture works. Nutritionists and veterinarians trust it to perform. Producers around the world have seen the results. Trust Diamond V Yeast Culture to help your animals. Learn more at www.diamondv.com or call 1-800-373-7234.
   
Wonder why you should be using Endovac-Bovi with IMMUNEPlus® for your protection against clinical e.coli mastitis? Simple, IMMUNEPlus®, a key component in the one, two punch that is Endovac-Bovi®. You get core antigen protection similar to other products used to protect against e.coli, and immune stimulation. No, IMMUNEPlus® is not just another adjuvant to aid in the longevity of the bacterin component of the vaccine. It actually increases lymphocyte production, making your herd healthier overall. What does that mean to you the dairyman? It means a smaller dose with less antigenic mass, administered with just ONE annual booster dose. To learn more about Endovac-Bovi with IMMUNEPlus®, visit us at www.immvac.com.
   

Research & Technology:Priority is changing how dairy cows are fed. Their genomic DNA research is pioneering the next generation of digestive technology such as proprietary A4000h.
The P-One Programs prevents Variable Manure Syndrome (VMS). If cows are eating the same diet, their manure should look the same. VMS indicates poor digestive function and rumen pH instability. VMS leads to health and reproductive challenges.
Priority has cost effective solutions. The P-One Program’s technology maximizes starch utilization, promotes a healthy rumen, and improves feed cost efficiencies.
For more information, or to start feeding this new technology call 1-888-444-2030, email info@priorityiac.com or visit www.PriorityIAC.com.
   
The surfaces the animals lay on obviously make the difference. Pasture is natural, resilient and comfortable while the barn floor is hard and unforgiving. 
Installation of the Pasture Mat or Pack Mat System provides the ideal indoor surface for your cows’ comfort – as close to natural turf as you can get. Pasture Mat reliably absorbs the shock repeated impacts and eliminates the risk of injury to-even the heaviest cow. Side-by-side tests with all other types of cow mats prove conclusively that cows prefer Pasture Mat. 
Promat Inc. were the Pioneers in mattress technology and invented the multi-celled rubber filled mattress system. With the strongest top cover on the market and 2, 000,000 cows using the system World wide we are the number one cow comfort mattress in the World.
   

Need More Heifers?   It’s Possible!   Select Sires understands the value of a heifer calf to your bottom line and after extensive field trials, the results are in and the facts prove our technology can sex-sort spermwith 90 percent purity. Wouldn’t you be tickled pink to get 9 heifers out of every 10 calves? Click here to learn more, also visit with your Select Sires representative for more details.
   

Protect your herd investment from the damage mastitis can bring - reduced milk production now and in the future. Protection includes proper udder prep, maximizing skin condition and preventing the penetration of mastitis causing pathogens. Trust the leader in uddercare technologies - West Agro - bringing you Bovadine, Blockade, QuarterMate Plus and IodoZyme - the most advanced and research proven uddercare products available.
   
   
 
Alltech is a global animal health company providing natural, nutritional solutions to the feed and food industries. Founded in 1980 by Dr. Pearse Lyons, the company now has a presence in 85 countries and growing. Alltech is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. 1700 professionals work every day to provide innovative solutions for a rapidly changing global marketplace.
   
Introduced last year, the Arctic Cat Prowler is as sporty as it is functional. The Prowler is equipt with a 641 cc, four-stroke engine that provides awesome pulling power, incredible midrange, and top-end numbers that leave the competition in our dust. Arctic Cat gives you More to Go On. See your Dealer for details.
   

Avery Weigh-Tronix is an industry leader in agricultural weighing products and systems for agribusiness. For over thirty-five years the company has provided scale systems to original equipment manufacturers of such products as TMR feed mixers, truck platform scales, weigh carts, grain carts, forage wagons, grinder/mixers, bulk commodity weighing and livestock weighing.
   
MS Specialty Nutrition is a leading, research-driven supplier of nutrition and health products designed to optimize animal performance. Major brands for dairy producers include Energy Booster 100® (rumen inert-fat), Excelerate® and KwikMix® (calf milk replacers). MS Specialty Nutrition serves both national and international customers. For more information, visit www.msspecialtynutrition.com or call 1-800-343-4274.
   

Deliver®Extra with Dialine is the next best thing to mother’s milk in delivering natural Vitamin E for immune system development to newborn calves with diarrhea. Deliver®Extra contains glutamine, which has been shown to play an important role in repairing damaged lining of the intestine (mucosa) and in restoring proper absorption of water, glucose and electrolytes. It reduces the length and severity of diarrhea and assures direct replacement of bicarbonate (lost due to diarrhea), an important electrolyte for scouring calves.
Distributed in the U.S. by AgriLabs and Emerald
   
Now the second largest bovine animal health company in the U.S., Schering-Plough Animal Health (S-PAH) focuses on creating innovative partnerships with cattle producers, veterinarians, and animal health suppliers. In 2005, S-PAH celebrated 50 years of bringing you high quality products, and the Company’s vision is to continue to earn the trust of the industry through innovative research and development.
   
Soy Best High Bypass Soybean Meal is the choice of dairy nutritionists and producers nationwide. Our all-natural mechanical extraction process now includes fresh soy gums containing lecithin, phosphatidyl-choline and phospholipids.  Best of all, cows love the taste.  Research shows Soy Best is more palatable than other products.  And we’ve made sure Soy Best is also more digestible in the lower gut than other products.  
Bypass protein and intestinal digestibility are important.  So is palatability.  Put the three together and the result is MORE MILK.  It all adds up to a simple, cost-effective solution that’s proven to get results.
Learn more at www.soybest.com.
   
West Central is a progressive, rapidly growing agri-business headquartered in Ralston, Iowa. West Central manufactures SoyPLUS, a high by-pass protein, and SoyChlor, a palatable chloride delivery system for DCAD balancing.
   
Zinpro Performance Minerals™ deliver consistent, performance-driven results. 4-Plex®, Zinpro’s proven performance mineral program, helps build the foundation for long-term herd benefits impacting lactation and reproductive performance, udder health and claw integrity. Numerous university and controlled field studies demonstrate the performance advantage of 4-Plex. Your cows depend on you. You depend on 4-Plex.