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for a list of the 2007 top place winners

 Important 2008 Contest Dates
August 15, 2008 Contest entry forms and fees are due
August 18-22
Cheese, butter, fluid milk, buttermilk, whipping cream, cottage cheese, yogurt and sour cream entries must be shipped to the High Track .  Ice cream, dried whey and Creative/Innovative Technology entries must be shipped to Babcock Hall.
August 26 Judging day for ice cream, sherbet, dried whey categories and Creative/Innovative Technology products - Babcock Hall, UW Madison campus
August 27 Judging day for cheese and butter - Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
August 28 Judging day for yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, fluid milk, buttermilk, dairy based dips and whipping cream - Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
September 30 AUCTION - World Dairy Expo
   
   

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2007  CONTEST  JUDGES

Head Judge:  Marianne Smukowski, WI Center for Dairy Research
Assistant Head Judge:  Dr. Robert Bradley, UW Madison Food Science
CHEESE
Dennis Butters, Sargento Foods
Terry Lensmire, Trega Foods
Harvey Jensen, Curd Tek Consulting
Bob Frantangelo, Heluva Good
Randy Swenson, WI Aging & Grading Cheese
Julie Stellpflug, Crystal Farms
Sandy Toney, Masters Gallery Foods

William Wendorff, UW Food Science

 BUTTER
Noreen Ratzlaff, USDA
Mike Pederson, DATCP

ICE CREAM & SHERBET
Eric Thomsen, Schoep's Ice Cream
Connie Kellog, Birds Eye Foods

 
COTTAGE CHEESE, SOUR CREAM,
Doug Allen, Kerry Ingredients
Jim Schwartz 		FLUID MILK, CULTURED BUTTERMILK,
Tom Gruetzmacher, Land O'Lakes
Tim Noll, Hilltop Valley Dairy
 
DRIED WHEY PRODUCTS
KJ Burrington, WI Center for Dairy Research
Bonny Goodenough, Foremost Farms USA		 CREATIVE & INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Marianne Smukowski, WI Center for Dairy Research
Bob Bradley, UW Madison Food Science
YOGURT, DAIRY BASED DIPS,
WHIPPING CREAM
Tonya Birkrem, Dean Foods
Tom Parent, Century Foods 		 

2007 Grand Champions

 Cheese & Butter Grand Champion

& Grade A & Ice Cream Grand Champion

L-R:  Brad Legreid, WDPA; Robert Koneck, Grade A & Ice Cream Grand Champion, Kraft Foods; Randy Krahenbul, Cheese & Butter Grand Champion, Fair Oaks Dairy Products; Tony Anderson, WDPA Committee Chairman, Swiss Valley Farms

 

2007 Winning Auction Bidders

2007 Donation to PDPW

Shelly Mayer, PDPW; Brad Legreid, WDPA

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