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E555 The $221,760 Corridor Trap Hitting 600‑Cow Upper Midwest Dairies in 2026
Season 1 Episode 555
The owner of a 600‑cow Upper Midwest dairy sat across from his lender in early 2026 and watched a robotic milking project sail through a stress test …
4 months, 1 week ago
E554 Roxy, Dellia and The Mothers Who Built the Breed
Season 1 Episode 554
From Roxy to Barbie, these 10 mothers built the Holstein breed. Go beyond the pedigree to the cows who never left. In the dairy business, Mother’s Da…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
E553 Why Your Show Heifer Development Program Starts in the Maternity Pen, Not the Fitting Chute: The 28% IgG Gap That Decides the Class
Season 1 Episode 553
Waiting six hours to feed colostrum caps roughly a quarter of your show heifer's disease protection. The class was decided at 2 a.m. in January, not …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
E552 The $28,614 Tenth: Why Upper Midwest Protein Is Now Worth More Than Fat
Season 1 Episode 552
March 2026 FMMO set protein at $2.0905/lb against butterfat at $2.0220 — the first sustained flip in a decade. On a 500-cow Order 30 herd at 75 lbs/d…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
E551 The 52-Point Gap Hiding in Every Jersey Sire Catalog in Canada
Season 1 Episode 551
Canada's top 10 Jersey sires averaged 99th-percentile LPI last year. Their Reproduction Index sat at the 47th — below breed average. Nobody's printin…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
E550 How Albert Cormier Rewrote the Rules of Global Holstein Business – and Made the Whole Industry Catch Up
Season 1 Episode 550
Fall of 1981. A heifer named A Brookview Tony Charity walks into the Designer Fashion Sale with a hock swollen up like a grapefruit. Every buyer in t…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
E549 $3,110 In, $1,100 Out: The Cull Trap Holding 470,000 U.S. Dairy Cows – CPI Hits 68
Season 1 Episode 549
$3,110 to replace her, $1,100 to ship her. That spread is why The Bullvine’s new Culling Pressure Index just printed 68 “Warning Zone” and an estimat…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
E548 72 Milk Pans, Fired Quidlings, 24% Returns: Abigail Adams, America’s First Dairy CFO
Season 1 Episode 548
Abigail Adams ran the first Founding-family dairy — and saved it while John built a country from a farmhouse desk in Braintree.
April 11, 1776. The ca…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
E547 $43 a Test, $160M for the Lab: Why Select Sires and ABS Are Quiet on the GeneSeek Close
Season 1 Episode 547
Forty-three dollars buys one Clarifide Plus test. One hundred and sixty million bought the lab that runs it. Your co-op hasn't said a word about eith…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
E546 The $6,600 6‑Week Weaning ‘Savings’ Trap: Why It Can Mean an $11,000 BRD and Calving Bill on a 300‑Cow Dairy
Season 1 Episode 546
A 300-cow Wisconsin dairy thought 6-week weaning saved $6,600 a year. The real cost, once BRD and age at first calving were priced in: $11,190.
This e…
4 months, 3 weeks ago