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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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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 …
1 month, 3 weeks 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…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
E494 The 1,113 kg Question: Does Dairy Calf Starter Consistency Really Affect Lifetime Production?
Season 1 Episode 494
Every kilogram of preweaning gain is linked to 1,113 kg of additional milk in first lactation. That's not a projection — it's peer-reviewed Cornell U…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
E493 9.99% Inbreeding and Rising: How Blondin Sires Turned a Holstein Bottleneck into 75% Growth
Season 1 Episode 493
The day Dann Brady pulled his herd’s inbreeding report, the number on the page didn’t match the cows in his head. On paper, they were elite: high ind…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
E492 Steve Jobs Never Soldered a Circuit: How His Mac Playbook Can Free 988 of Your Hours and Add $24,000 to a 200‑Cow Dairy
Season 1 Episode 492
The most profitable dairy farms don't have cheaper labor. They have better systems. Cornell's 2024 Dairy Farm Business Summary revealed something tha…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
E491 The $8,100 Gamble on Missy, 198 Dragged Genes, and the 20-Year Breeding Blind Spot Hiding in Your Herd
Season 1 Episode 491
In 2003, Matt Steiner called into a Wisconsin sale barn and bid $8,100 on a cow the room had already written off. Wesswood-HC Rudy Missy EX-92 went o…
2 months ago
E490 Ginger Rogers: The Oscar Winner Who Bet It All on Golden Guernseys
Season 1 Episode 490
Ginger Rogers poured her Oscar money into 32 Golden Guernseys on a thousand acres of Oregon riverfront — then lost them all to a world war. In 1941, …
2 months ago