Today marked the final day at the Carousel Dairy Spring. The "Spring" is a cattle competition in which the top dairy cows compete for awards. Their are various different categories ranging from babies to adults, and the owners of the winning cows can expect to see the value of their animals increase quite significantly. Patsy Gifford, Executive manager of HolsteinUSA, says some cattle increase their value almost 100 fold up to around $500,000!
Over 1200 animals from 21 different states, as well as Canada were at the New York State Fairgrounds for the competition, and people from all over the country came to see the show.
The animals from this competition are the cows that the entire dairy industry typically gets their
breeding stock from. Gifford said she wasn't very concerned about the effect that economy was having on the dairy company because she was only celebrating the success of the competition.
For live and archived coverage of the Spring Dairy Carousel go to http://www.holsteinworld.com/NYCarousel08/.
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