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Corey Geiger’s Biography

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Known to friends as the Dancing Dairyman, Corey Geiger danced his way onto Family Feud hosted by Steve Harvey, Texas Two Stepped on the colored shavings during the Supreme Champion ceremonies at the 2018 World Dairy Expo and competed at the Fred Astaire National Finals where he and his wife Krista Knigge won top amateur couple honors. The family’s dairy farm also has hosted The Bachelor television series, NFL Films, and CBS Sports, which all aired on national television.
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New book captures compelling history of sixth-generation Reedsville family farm

New book captures compelling history of sixth-generation Reedsville family farm

REEDSVILLE, Wis. (WBAY) - The history of a local family farm has come to life in a new book written by a sixt…

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DEBRIEF: Book chronicles history of Wisconsin farm

DEBRIEF: Book chronicles history of Wisconsin farm

Author Corey Geiger is a 6th generation farmer

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On a Wisconsin Family Farm: Historic Tales of Character, Community and Culture

On a Wisconsin Family Farm: Historic Tales of Character, Community and Culture

(WFRV) - Wisconsin Author Corey Geiger stopped by the studio for a chat about his new book "On a Wisconsin Fa…

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Corey Geiger's new book honors resiliency of his family, farm

Corey Geiger's new book honors resiliency of his family, farm

Corey Geiger, managing editor of Hoard's Dairyman, president of Holstein USA and a lifelong Wisconsin residen…

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Wisconsin author shares six generations of family history in the newly published On a Wisconsin F...

Wisconsin author shares six generations of family history in the newly published On a Wisconsin F...

Written in ink and bound in memories, a Wisconsin author captured six generations of local tales in a single …

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Agriculture author Corey Geiger | Women's Fund COVID-19 Survey | Old Glory Honor Flight

Agriculture author Corey Geiger | Women's Fund COVID-19 Survey | Old Glory Honor Flight

Corey Geiger an international agriculture journalist and author of a new book, joins us to talk about his ric…

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Articles

Cheddar yields climbed nearly 15% in 15 years

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By Corey Geiger
| Hoard's Dairyman Verified
Higher milk solids have become a good news, bad news story for the U.S. dairy industry. Generally speaking, it’s mostly good news for both the nation’s dairy producers and processors. For dairy producers, higher butterfat and protein content — when measured on a percentage basis in farmgate milk — equates to more pounds of butterfat and protein on a per hundredweight basis.
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Protein has begun to outpace butterfat

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By Corey Geiger
| Hoard's Dairyman Verified
Butterfat has long been the driver of the U.S. dairy industry. The processing sector balanced for the milk component meaning we kept nearly all our butterfat for the domestic market and exported skims solids – largely dairy proteins, permeate, and lactose – to international customers. That scenario has begun to shift. Last year we experienced a structural shift in the American dairy industry as U.S. dairy farmers continued to produce more butterfat.
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Volatility in Dairy Markets Calls for Risk Management

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By Abbi Prins, Corey Geiger
| The Cooperative Accountant Verified
When it comes to dairy, Class III milk representing cheese and whey and Class IV milk featuring butter and milk powders are two cornerstones to milk pricing. Not only do these two categories price a significant portion of farmgate milk, the higher of Class III or Class IV in any given month sets the price for the highest value category- Class I fluid milk.
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Associate Editor, Hoard's Dairyman

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

The scariest place is a blank screen. Start gathering your thoughts, you can always edit later.

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Outdoors.