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E504 The $99 Bolus That Protected Ferme Petitclerc’s Royal Winter Fair Run
Season 1 Episode 504
Most breeders still trust eyes, instinct, and twice‑a‑day checks to protect their most valuable cattle. In this episode, we follow a real Royal Winte…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
E503 From 6 Crises to 75 Tractors: Reed Hostetler’s Death and the $470K Page That Rewrote Dairy’s Road
Season 1 Episode 503
Everyone says “community matters,” but almost nobody in dairy has put numbers to it. This episode walks through six real crises — manure gas deaths, …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
E502 To-Mar Blackstar: The One-Embryo Holstein Sire Behind 15.8% of Today’s DNA – and the Genetic Debt in Your Herd
Season 1 Episode 502
To-Mar Blackstar began as a single embryo on a working Iowa dairy — and became the most related sire in Holstein history. Randy Tompkins flushed one …
5 months ago
E501 Dairy’s $444 Problem Has a 90% Solution – And It Lives Inside Victor Cabrera’s and the University of Wisconsin’s Dairy Brain.
Season 1 Episode 501
Somewhere on a Wisconsin dairy, a cow is about to get mastitis. She looks fine. Her milk's still flowing. Nobody in the parlor suspects a thing. But …
5 months ago
E500 Six Colorado Dairy Workers Dead. OSHA’s Price: $41,101 a Life – and no jail time.
Season 1 Episode 500
Six dairy workers — including a father, his two sons, and a son-in-law — died from hydrogen sulfide exposure in a single pump room at a Colorado dair…
5 months ago
E499 2,000 Cows, a $21 Million Settlement, and Fairlife’s Woodcrest Dairy Traceability Gap
Season 1 Episode 499
Everyone saw the animal-welfare headlines. Almost nobody is talking about the real business story: 2,000 cows leave a New Mexico dairy under investig…
5 months ago
E498 Ed Bos Picked the Same Traits for 50 Years. A Million-Cow Study Just Proved He Was Right — by $2,678 Per Cow.
Season 1 Episode 498
What if the composite score you've been trusting to select sires is actually masking the traits that cull your cows early? Holstein Association USA m…
5 months, 1 week ago
E497 880M Views vs $102.7M: Nate the Hoof Guy and Farm Social Media in Dairy’s Trust Fight
Season 1 Episode 497
A Wisconsin hoof trimmer who once used a flip phone now commands an audience of 880 million YouTube views — more reach than PETA and Mercy for Animal…
5 months, 1 week ago
E496 Men’s Hockey Gold Medal Game vs Dairy’s Real Faceoff: $24,000 Quota, 1,434 Lost Herds in Canada–USA Farming
Season 1 Episode 496
While Canada and the U.S. battled for men's hockey gold in Milan, the real cross-border faceoff was playing out in parlor pits and at kitchen tables …
5 months, 1 week ago
E495 The Invisible Architects: How George Wiggans and Paul VanRaden Helped Double Your Herds’ Genetic Gain
Season 1 Episode 495
You know Net Merit. You sort by it. You build your breeding program around it. But you've probably never heard the names of the two men who built the…
5 months, 1 week ago