Known to friends as the “Dancing Dairyman,” Corey Geiger danced his way onto Steve Harvey’s Family Feud television show, Texas Two-Stepped on the colored shavings during the Supreme Champion ceremonies in front of a crowd of 4,500 at World Dairy Expo and competed at the Fred Astaire Cross Country Dance Competition national finals, where he and his wife, Krista Knigge, won top amateur couple honors in their division.

Krista and her family’s dairy farm hosted The Bachelor, NFL Films and CBS Sports, all of which aired on national television. Corey and Krista own cows at this family farm business.

In 1995, this University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate joined the Hoard’s Dairyman editorial team and its publishing footprint dating back to 1870. In 2013, Geiger was tapped as the publication’s fifth lead editor. Five years later, he spearheaded the effort that brought Hoard’s Dairyman China to the marketplace, joining its English, Japanese and Spanish editions. Geiger was elected the sixty-fifth president of Holstein USA in 2019. He was co-editor of World Dairy Expo’s fiftieth anniversary book, We Need a Show, and served as fundraising co-chair for the Farm Wisconsin Discovery Center, a $13.5 million educational facility. He has spoken in Canada, China, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and over twenty U.S. states. He remains true to his farming roots, managing the cropland and facility maintenance on his family’s farm that dates back to 1867.