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E625 The $93,300 Cow Family: Why the Breeding Fight at Your Kitchen Table Is Really a Succession War
Season 1 Episode 625
That $575 beef-cross calf premium isn't free money. Every beef service on a replacement-eligible cow trades away roughly $585 in future heifer value.…
3 hours ago
E624 $20.11 Under Water on Every Hundredweight – Before the Bad Month
Season 1 Episode 624
USDA puts the cost of making milk in a sub-50-cow herd at $42.71/cwt. Milk sold for $22.60. That's $20.11 underwater before anybody has a bad month.
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1 day, 4 hours ago
E623 Two Barns Run 60 Cows Per Robot. One’s Broke
Season 1 Episode 623
Two barns run 60 cows per robot. One prints money; one's bled cash for six years. Same headcount, opposite milk cheque — and cows-per-robot never saw…
6 days, 4 hours ago
E622 Your Oldest Cow Isn’t a Cull — She’s a $3,000 Heifer You Don’t Have to Buy
Season 1 Episode 622
At $3,010 a replacement heifer — a record — the cow you're about to cull might be the cheapest one in your barn. Here's the math most farms skip.
Repl…
1 week ago
E621 $175 Million Expansion, 48% Fewer Exhibitors: Can a Bigger Hall Fix World Dairy Expo’s Trade Floor?
Season 1 Episode 621
World Dairy Expo's trade floor lost more than 400 companies since 2017 — nearly half its exhibitors — while the cattle show set records. A bigger hal…
1 week ago
E620 Agri-Mark Printed the Suicide Hotline on the Milk Cheque. The Fix Isn’t Grit — It’s 25 Hours a Week.
Season 1 Episode 620
A New England co-op printed a suicide hotline on farmers' milk cheques. The data says the real fix isn't tougher farmers — it's 25 fewer hours a week…
1 week, 1 day ago
E619 Holstein’s 60-Inch Rule: Why Breeders Are Backing It With 53%-vs-21% Math
Season 1 Episode 619
Stature is 53% heritable. Feet and legs? Just 21%. That single gap explains Holstein's entire new stature penalty — and why working breeders are back…
1 week, 3 days ago
E618 Rockwood Rocket Tone: 6-Time All-Canadian, and “an Absolute Disaster” as a Sire
Season 1 Episode 618
Rockwood Rocket Tone won All-Canadian six times — one of the most formidable bulls ever shown. Then his daughters freshened, and the truth came out. …
1 week, 4 days ago
E617 The 18% Trap: One Pregnancy Rate, Two Completely Different Diseases
Season 1 Episode 617
Two herds hit an 18% 21-day pregnancy rate for completely opposite reasons — and the manager watching conception rate can't tell which battle he's fi…
1 week, 6 days ago
E616 The 5¢ TRQ Fight vs. a $96,000 Hole in Your Milk Check
Season 1 Episode 616
The CUSMA dairy fight is worth about a nickel per hundredweight. A $4.98 class spread and your debt-coverage ratio are what actually decide if you're…
2 weeks ago