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E433 They Called Him the Three-Legged Bull. He Created the Modern Red Holstein: The Untold Story of Hanover-Hill Triple Threat-Red
Season 1 Episode 433
In 1972, a man walked into a sale barn and paid a world-record $60,000 for a red Holstein calf—at a time when red was considered a genetic flaw worth culling. His bosses never authorized the bid. The…
Published on 9 hours ago
E432 The $500 Transition Gap: Why Your Neighbor’s Fresh Cows May Outperform Yours by Next Winter
Season 1 Episode 432
Fresh cow crashes are quietly draining dairy profits—and the gap between farms preventing them and farms still reacting to them is widening fast. Research from Penn State, Cornell, and Wisconsin show…
Published on 1 day, 4 hours ago
E431 The Real Reason Dairy Farms Are Disappearing (Hint: It’s Not About Better Farming)
Season 1 Episode 431
In 2023, approximately 1,500 U.S. dairy farms closed their doors—yet national milk production increased. This isn't a paradox; it's a system working exactly as designed. But here's what conventional …
Published on 2 days, 5 hours ago
E430 The December Genetic Reckoning: Former Champions Fall, New Kings Rise – and Your 2026 Strategy Just Changed
Season 1 Episode 430
The December 2025 genetic evaluations didn't just reshuffle the global Holstein rankings—they detonated them. Former #1 bulls in Switzerland and Italy saw their indexes collapse by 52 and 98 points o…
Published on 3 days, 2 hours ago
E429 When Red × Red = Black: A Holstein Breeder’s Guide to Variant Red (COPA) Genes
Season 1 Episode 429
For decades, Holstein breeders operated on one simple rule: black dominates red. It was genetics 101—comfortable, predictable, and wrong. In 2015, researchers discovered the COPA gene, a genetic "ove…
Published on 5 days ago
E428 67% Conception Rates: The 140-Day Heifer Breeding Strategy That’s Changing Everything
Season 1 Episode 428
For decades, the industry mantra has been absolute: breed heifers back fast at day 50 to maximize efficiency. But Swedish research tracking 500+ first-lactation animals has exposed a costly misconcep…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
E427 The 90-Second Milking Window That’s Paying $126,000 – and Beating Every Robot
Season 1 Episode 427
In an era obsessed with automation and shiny new tech, dairy farmers face a provocative truth: the biggest margin gains aren’t in robots—they’re in perfecting fundamentals. This episode unveils why a…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
E426 Feed as Science: How the Penn State Particle Separator Turns TMR Consistency into Butterfat and Profit
Season 1 Episode 426
What if the tool with the power to transform your herd’s butterfat and bottom line isn’t new software or a fancy sensor—but a plastic particle separator gathering dust in your feed room? In this epis…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
E425 The Great American Dairy Heist – Who Really Owns Your Milk Check in 2025?
Season 1 Episode 425
Is the dairy industry working for you—or against you? In this hard-hitting episode, The Bullvine Podcast breaks down the true power structures shaping American milk markets. As thousands of family fa…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
E424 Carol Prelude Mtoto: The £40 ‘Failure’ That Saved the Holstein Breed
Season 1 Episode 424
In 1998, dairy farmers mocked anyone paying £40 for Carol Prelude Mtoto—a slow-milking Italian bull when standard genetics cost £10. Ten years later, only those "foolish" farms survived the 2008 cris…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago