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E647 9,860 First-Lactation VGs. Three Stress Tests. One Undisputed Winner.
Season 1 Episode 647
Raw 87-point daughter counts sell semen, but 9,860 Canadian first-lactations reveal only one sire passed every stress test: Blondin Detective.
On The …
1 week, 6 days ago
E646 The Biggest Dairies Pay the Highest Wages. Their Labor Costs $1.85/cwt.
Season 1 Episode 646
Large dairies pay the highest hourly wages in the business, yet their labor runs just $1.85/cwt. On herds under 50 cows, labor hits $13.18.
When an I-…
2 weeks ago
E645 24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn.
Season 1 Episode 645
Elmer Dawdy and Doug Dunton built 99.84% of modern Holstein sire lines from 24 crooked cows and one Ontario barn. In 1947, a bull calf left a Wiscons…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
E644 Every Tuesday Dann Brady Throws Out Bulls He Likes. One of Them Wasn’t Logic PP
Season 1 Episode 644
On any given Tuesday morning at Ferme Blondin, Dann Brady has every reason to fall in love with a genomic profile. The numbers flash green, the index…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
E643 127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs
Season 1 Episode 643
UBC tracked 1,171 cull cows across 20 herds. The average cow sat 127 days on the culling list before anyone loaded her, losing condition the whole ti…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
E642 Nordic Holstein Coancestry Rose Twentyfold. Your Inbreeding Percentage Won’t Show You.
Season 1 Episode 642
Seven of the top ten August 2026 GTPI sires share one father. While herdbook mating reports look stable, underlying genetic diversity is collapsing.
O…
3 weeks ago
E641 94.3% of Trough Samples Had Coliforms. Your Wellhead Test Won’t Show It
Season 1 Episode 641
Your wellhead tested clean, but 94.3% of troughs carry coliforms. Biofilm lines the pipe, cutting cow intake and costing real milk.
When somatic cell …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
E640 One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History
Season 1 Episode 640
Winnie, Laurie Sheik, and Ada walked into Madison's Coliseum in 1989 as young heifers. What followed rewrote global pedigrees. In October 1989 at Wor…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
E639 The Access Fight Is Worth 5¢. Class III Already Took 64¢.
Season 1 Episode 639
The Canadian dairy access dispute is worth 5 cents per cwt. Real Class III market swings already cost four times more than the entire trade battle.
Th…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
E638 Rumination Drops Five Days Early. The Payback Takes Six Years.
Season 1 Episode 638
Her rumination dropped five days before diagnosis, but paying off the hardware takes six years on health alone.
On The Bullvine Podcast, we break down…
3 weeks, 5 days ago