Wisconsin Guernsey Breeders' Association

10/27/2026

Planning is coming together for the 2027 Wisconsin State Guernsey Convention!

The Northwest Guernsey Group is excited to be hosting this year. Details will be coming out soon, but for now—clear your calendar and start your road trip planning!

Our host hotel, the Sleep Inn & Suites Conference Center Eau Claire North, offers a fantastic space for our group. It features excellent convention facilities, an attached restaurant and bar, and an on-site travel station and gas station—making it a perfect all-in-one stop right off of HWY 29 just north of Eau Claire!

We are excited to see all of you in March to celebrate Wisconsin Guernsey Excellence!

10/24/2026

The incredible Cow!

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist fed cows no protein at all for years, and they gave milk, and the milk was full of protein.

Artturi Virtanen won his Nobel for chemistry in 1945.

In the 1960s he took dairy cows off every protein in their diet and fed them urea and ammonium salts, which are nitrogen and nothing else, with cellulose and starch for energy.

The cows made milk. Full milk, with every essential amino acid in it, for years, through several lactations.

The microbes in the rumen took the nitrogen and built the protein from scratch, and the cow digested the microbes.

They built every B vitamin as well, including B12, which no plant and no animal can make and which comes, in the end, from a microbe or nowhere.

A cow is the only farm animal that manufactures protein. A pig and a chicken can only move protein from one place to another, and the place is usually a soy field.

Feed a pig a kilo of soy protein and you get less than a kilo of pork. Feed a cow grass with no protein worth the name and you get a kilo of beef and milk anyway.

Grazing cattle produce more protein a human can eat than they consume.

A cow is a protein factory with a grass intake and a chemist-proof design, and she can run it on nitrogen and sunlight.

Every plant-based plan to replace her begins with growing the protein first.

10/19/2026

Candids WDE 2026

10/13/2026

A great article on Olivia Jennrich our 2025 WI Guernsey Princess and 2026 National Guernsey Queen

https://dairystar.com/stories/jennrich-takes-wisconsin-guernsey-roots-to-national-stage%2C31415?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU7BZFjbGNrBTsFgmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEehOVA_ESkhim24Uny95Aoz2Aclzo1XazHv8ZT3pgsjjXGyB0Cmbx_s2dd6bk_aem_abaZWwwH3Nubp7iomVAcQQ

NEW GLARUS, Wis. — While Olivia Jennrich grew up within the city limits of Jefferson, her connection to Guernseys began on her grandparents’ dairy farm in New Glarus about an hour away. The …

10/07/2026

Candids 2026 WDE

10/07/2026

Candids from 2026 World Dairy Expo

10/01/2026

Exhibition herd honors of the 2026 World Dairy Expo show was claimed by Wisconsin breeders!!

10/01/2026

Congrats to our World dairy Expo Grand champions and their owners. The Grand Champions of this years show, were bred by Wisconsin breeders; Schuler/Dorn families and Valley Gem Farm, Inc. Owned by Chupp Farms
Rabbit Hole Genetics owned by Alison Gartman and family

10/01/2026

WDE GRAND Guernsey Party TONIGHT 6:30 Aisle 12 barn 2
PIZZA 🍕 DRINKS