World Dairy Expo has hired Cassi Miller of Mount Horeb as a program assistant. Her duties in this position will include providing program assistance for World Dairy Expo and all WDE Management Inc. entities, coordinating Expo school tours, providing customer service, and aiding in the planning and execution of the Expo Recognition and Friends of Expo programs.

FARM BACKGROUND: World Dairy Expo new hire Cassi Miller grew up on her family’s registered Holstein farm, Miller Holsteins near Vesper.

Miller joins the World Dairy Expo staff with strong roots in the dairy industry. She grew up on her family’s registered Holstein farm, Miller Holsteins near Vesper, exhibiting cattle at various shows, competing in a variety of FFA contests, and participating in and serving the Wisconsin Junior Holstein Association. Miller also comes to the position with experience promoting fairs, as she served as the Central Wisconsin State Fair Fairest of the Fair in 2014.

Recently, Miller aided World Dairy Expo as a volunteer in the ultrasound tent and dairy cattle show office, and as a visitor survey distributor.

Miller graduated in May from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness, with emphases in communications, marketing and management. Since then, she has been working at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board in the Channel Management department.

While at college, Miller was active in the Pioneer National Agri-Marketing Association, Sigma Alpha Sorority, Collegiate Farm Bureau and Pioneer Dairy Club. Throughout her time in school, she worked in the event reservations office and Pioneer Academic and Transitional Help Center, along with spending a summer as the communications intern at East Central/Select Sires.

Source: World Dairy Expo