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E637 The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down
Episode 637
Hauling a five-cow string to Madison costs $3,800 per cow. Expo charges just $280 of it. The other 93% is the cost nobody writes down.
On this edition…
4 weeks ago
E636 That cull cow brings $2,340. Her replacement costs $3,500.
Season 1 Episode 636
Cashing a $2,340 cull check today leaves an immediate $1,160 hole when replacement heifers cost $3,500-plus in the tightest inventory since 1978.
On t…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
E635 500,000 Gallons a Day: A Ceiling to the City, a Floor to Its Challengers
Season 1 Episode 635
A judge tossed the challenge on standing, not hydrology. The numbers on the record reveal exactly what your next dairy expansion will have to prove.
N…
1 month ago
E634 The Colostrum Standard Moved — and 39% of Your "Passed" Calves Are Losing Milk
Episode 634
Ninety percent of calves pass the old colostrum test. Under updated standards, nearly 40% land in Fair or Poor—costing 187 lbs of first-lactation mil…
1 month ago
E633 DOJ Signals “Ongoing” A.I. Bid-Rigging Probe: The $100M Exposure, the Unnamed Co-Conspirators, and the Safeguard Nobody Requires
Season 1 Episode 633
A bovine A.I. manager pleaded guilty to rigging cattle auctions, and the DOJ signaled its criminal antitrust probe is just getting started.
On The Bul…
1 month ago
E632 One Cow, Seven Bulls, Six Countries: What August 2026’s Proof Run Really Tells You About Your Semen Tank
Season 1 Episode 632
One sire owns 7 of 10 US GTPI slots and one cow backs 7 bulls across top lists. Buying off the A-list without checking pedigrees is a costly trap.
The…
1 month, 1 week ago
E631 August 2026 USA Proofs: Four Sires Are Driving the Entire Top 10 – Is Your Semen Tank Truly Diversified?
Season 1 Episode 631
If three or more straws in your current tank trace back to Ripcord, Delux Dominance, or King Doc, you aren’t diversifying—you are buying the same gen…
1 month, 1 week ago
E630 87% Can’t Point to the Agreement. 92% Never Got Paid. October 2 Is the Deadline.
Season 1 Episode 630
Eighty-seven percent of surveyed producers couldn't say they'd signed a data-sharing agreement. Ninety-two percent have never been paid a cent for th…
1 month, 1 week ago
E629 At $3,010 a Heifer, Your Worst Cow Just Got a Reprieve
Season 1 Episode 629
Five cows on the cull list this morning. Run the retention math at $3,010 a springer, and three of them are worth more in the stall than any heifer y…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
E628 The 18,855-Cow Permit and a 92¢ Formula Change Your Lender’s Already Run
Season 1 Episode 628
Your lender has already run this math. A federal formula change pulled 92¢/cwt out of Class III last June — $88,320 a year on 400 cows, with no line …
1 month, 2 weeks ago