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E657 World Dairy Expo 2026 Holstein Show Preview: 11th Place Is Now The Favorite
Season 1 Episode 657
Five of nine Madison divisional champions vanished for eleven months while an 11th-place heifer took over the continent.
Ryan Krohlow holds the microp…
1 day, 4 hours ago
E656 They Mortgaged Three Wisconsin Farms to Build World Dairy Expo. Four Years Later It Was Nearly Bankrupt.
Season 1 Episode 656
Norm Magnussen, Allen Hetts, and Gene Nelson put their farms behind a $100,000 bank note in 1967 so dairy cattle had a stage. With Howard Voegeli sec…
3 days, 6 hours ago
E655 Three Feed Inputs Set the DMC Margin. Diesel Isn’t One, and It Rose 65%.
Season 1 Episode 655
USDA's DMC margin rose $3.07 through June, but on-highway diesel surged 65%. The statutory formula cannot see your fuel bill.
On this episode of The B…
4 days, 6 hours ago
E654 Iowa’s Manure Penalty Never Left $5,000. The Restitution Ran 6.7 Times Higher.
Season 1 Episode 654
An Ohio dairy manager drew a federal conviction and a $25,000 fine over 789 fish. An LLC will not shield your staff from personal criminal liability.…
5 days, 2 hours ago
E653 Waterloo Warned Us: How the World’s Greatest Dairy Show Died – and What Twelve Years of Expo’s Own Numbers Say Before the Gates Open
Season 1 Episode 653
Large dairies pay the highest hourly wages in agriculture, yet their labor expense drops to $1.85/cwt while herds under 50 cows bleed $13.18/cwt.
ERS …
6 days, 5 hours ago
E652 USDA Raised Make Allowances Up to 42.6% on Self-Reported Processor Costs
Season 1 Episode 652
USDA added up to 7.15 cents per pound to processor make allowances on self-reported data. On 500 cows, that pulls up to $105,800 out of your pocket e…
1 week ago
E651 The $128,320 Additive Bill: Why the First Dairy Carbon Credit Wasn’t Bovaer
Season 1 Episode 651
Feeding 3-NOP costs 35 cents a cow every day you do not get back. That is $128,320 a year on 1,000 cows your milk check cannot absorb.
The first U.S. …
1 week, 1 day ago
E650 “I Was Wrong. They Were Better.” – The Glengarry Ayrshires That Beat the World
Season 1 Episode 650
Glengarry Sir Burton was fifteen years past his last show when his progeny swept the 1953 Royal Winter Fair. Both grand championships. Both reserves.…
1 week, 3 days ago
E649 $11,525 Buys One Day Off. $14,263 Is Sitting in Hours Nobody Counts.
Season 1 Episode 648
Buying relief labor to prevent mastitis wrecks is bad math. You would need to stop 60 clinical cases a year just to break even on $11,525 in milker w…
1 week, 3 days ago
E648 The 22% Starter Made Better Calves – Not Bigger Ones. Here’s the 3-lb Test.
The study cited to sell 22% calf starter did not produce heavier calves. Empty body weight gains between 18% and 22% starters were identical.
On this …
1 week, 5 days ago