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Schmitt Joins World Dairy Expo Communications Staff
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 06/28/2016

World Dairy Expo has announced the hiring of a new communications specialist. Katie Schmitt will be responsible for writing and distributing press releases for the annual dairy show, as well as for the Dane County Fair in Madison. She will also coordinate the Expo Daily Edition newspaper and maintain social media platforms.

Schmitt is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Animal Science-Industry and Business, with minors in Communication Studies and Agricultural Food Business Management. During college, she worked as a Communication Assistant for the College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences and held internships with Mycogen Seeds and the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation.

A native of Rice, Minnesota, Katie grew up on her family's Registered Holstein farm, Ralma Holsteins. She was active in the dairy industry, exhibiting cattle and serving for three years on the Minnesota Junior Holstein Association Board of Directors. Additionally, she helped educate consumers as a county dairy princess and as the 2013 Runner-up to Princess Kay of the Milky Way.


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