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E563 $3,010 Heifers and the $40,000 Calf Program Math You’re Not Running
Season 1 Episode 563
A 4% pre-weaning mortality rate buries about $27,000 a year on a 500-cow herd. At 5–6%, it's past $40,000. Still calling your calf program "good enou…
2 months, 1 week ago
E562 World Dairy Expo Is the Benchmark. These 10 Other Shows Are Worth Your Passport.
Season 1 Episode 562
It's 6:47 in the morning. You're standing in a barn that smells like fresh shavings, tail adhesive, and possibility. Your back hurts. You've slept fo…
2 months, 1 week ago
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…
2 months, 1 week 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., …
2 months, 2 weeks 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 …
2 months, 2 weeks 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…
2 months, 2 weeks 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…
2 months, 2 weeks 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…
2 months, 2 weeks 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 …
2 months, 2 weeks 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…
2 months, 3 weeks ago