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E561 Burt Haugen Came Home From Vietnam in ’68 to Milk Cows. He’s One of the 0.4%.
Season 1 Episode 561
Veterans make up 9% of US agricultural producers, but just 0.4% choose dairy. This systemic gap leaves 3,700 leadership-tested workers behind.
On this…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
E560 Maughlin Storm Built the Modern Holstein Cow. He Also Hid a Killer in Her Pedigree.
Season 1 Episode 560
Born August 1991 from a $4,400 heifer calf in Rockwood, Ontario, Storm became the most copied type sire of his generation — Class Extra at C.I.A.Q., …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
E559 $60 Silage, $220 Delivered: The 28% Hidden Premium on a 500-Cow Bunker
Season 1 Episode 559
A 500-cow Southwest dairy booked corn silage at $60/ton. Shrink-adjusted, the cows ate $220/ton DM — $0.89/cow/day, $162,000 a year, before milk hit …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
E558 The $427,500 Diesel Hole McCarty Locks Shut Before January 1
Season 1 Episode 558
A 50-cent diesel move costs a 19,000-cow dairy $427,500 a year. McCarty Family Farms books roughly 90% of next year's diesel before January 1 — and t…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
E557 A $45 Test, A $149,840 Gap: Inside Kansas’s 700-Cow Genomic Trap
Season 1 Episode 557
The $45 line on your genomic testing invoice is the cheapest number in the stack. The expensive number is what that test didn't change in the alley.
A…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
E556 The Punjab Pivot: Why $12 Semen Is Dead in India by 2031
Season 1 Episode 556
A senior PDFA officer predicted it in 2018. By August 2025, a university in Ludhiana signed the MOU that turns his sentence into a timeline.
In this e…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
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 weeks, 2 days 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…
1 month 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 …
1 month 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…
1 month ago