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E581 Falling Semen Sales Aren’t Bad News – They’re Proof You Bred Better
Season 1 Episode 581
U.S. dairies bought 45.8 million semen units in 2025, down 6% — and NAAB president Jay Weiker says that drop is partly a win. Fewer straws are settli…
11 hours ago
E580 The Proof You Waited Three Years For Averaged a $72 Markdown
Season 1 Episode 580
A Virginia Tech analysis of 2,400+ genomic-tested Holstein bulls found the average daughter-proof came in $72 lower in Net Merit than the genomic pre…
1 day, 11 hours ago
E579 Microsoft Got a “Tolerance Decision.” Dutch Dairies Got Closure Orders.
Season 1 Episode 579
Same nitrogen law, same maps. Microsoft's data center got a "tolerance decision" to keep building. The dairy down the road got a buyout letter and an…
2 days, 12 hours ago
E578 Against All Odds: The Dreamers, Rebels, and Risk-Takers Who Built the Modern Holstein
Season 1 Episode 578
Hanover-Hill Triple Threat-Red was the calf the establishment said should never have been born — and they paid a world-record $60,000 for him anyway.…
4 days, 11 hours ago
E577 The Spreadsheet Beats the Pedigree: Why Holstein USA Honored an Economist
Season 1 Episode 577
magine standing in a crowded ballroom in Orlando, Florida, surrounded by six generations of breeding legacy, elite bloodlines, and the ghosts of show…
6 days, 9 hours ago
E576 Beef-on-Dairy Math: $25,200 Rides on Your Semen Order
Season 1 Episode 576
A +0.65 marbling EPD beef bull can beat a bargain straw by up to $25,200 a year on a 168-head crop — when the grid rewards it. Most dairies never che…
1 week ago
E575 A 400-Cow Herd Loses $27,800 a Year to Ketosis – Then Pays Twice for “Rumen-Protected” Additives That Never Reach the Cow
Episode 575
A 400-cow herd loses up to $27,800 a year to subclinical ketosis — then pays again for "rumen-protected" additives that may never reach the cow.
That …
1 week, 1 day ago
E574 Polled Just Hit 3371 TPI. The Dehorning Iron Is Now a Choice, Not a Necessity.
Season 1 Episode 574
A homozygous polled bull just topped Canada's August 2025 proven LPI list — ahead of every horned sire in the country. The 15-year horn tax is gone.
T…
1 week, 2 days ago
E573 June Dairy Month Turns 89 — and Farmers Now Keep Just 25¢ of Every Dairy Dollar
Season 1 Episode 573
Of the $3.98 you pay for a gallon of milk, the farm keeps about $1.97. Once it becomes cheese or ice cream, your cut of the dairy basket drops to 25 …
1 week, 2 days ago
E572 Sexation and the Ocean-View Covenant: The Herd That Taught the Holstein World to Trust Cow Families
Season 1 Episode 572
Ocean-View Sexation couldn't legally ship semen abroad — so how did nearly 100,000 of his daughters end up in the Netherlands? In 1980s California, a…
1 week, 3 days ago