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E512 From 35 Cows to a WDE Grand Champion: 4 Breeders Using Sales, Embryos & Presentation to Make Registered Holsteins Pay
Season 1 Episode 512
Picture this: Milk checks hitting rock bottom at $16.65, barns emptying out, and a room full of Holstein breeders staring down the barrel of "sell or…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
E511 Canada’s 20 Most-Used Holstein Sires: 96th Percentile LPI, Yet Only 31st Percentile Fertility
Season 1 Episode 511
Opening Summary Everyone talks about chasing the highest LPI. But what if the sires driving nearly a quarter of Canadian Holstein registrations are a…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
E510 The Classifier Behind Eight EX‑97s: Bruno Jubinville’s Lifetime Crusade for Balance
Season 1 Episode 510
In April 1997, a French-speaking Purina delivery driver walked into a Quebec barn with bags of heifer feed. The Holstein Canada classification crew h…
3 months ago
E509 The 3‑Lactation Trap: Are $3,010 Heifers Pushing You Toward Beef Checks Instead of Five‑Lactation Cows?
Season 1 Episode 509
USDA just counted the fewest dairy replacement heifers since 1978 — 3.914 million head — while the average replacement now costs around $3,010. At th…
3 months ago
E508 5 Backup Bulls Nobody Wanted That Rewrote the Holstein Breed
Season 1 Episode 508
Five "backup" bulls nobody initially chased—Mark, Mtoto, O-Man, Blitz, and Elevation—now shape nearly every modern Holstein. Their stories follow the…
3 months ago
E507 How the Juárez Blockades Froze $1.45 Billion – and Blindsided Your Milk Check
Season 1 Episode 507
Mexico now buys roughly 4.5% of U.S. milk production and more than a quarter of U.S. dairy export value. In late 2025, coordinated blockades at Ciuda…
3 months ago
E506 Emily Miller-Cushon’s Physics-to-Dairy Pivot: Pair Housing’s 130g/Day Gain Edge and $3,300/Heifer Savings
Season 1 Episode 506
A physicist from the University of Waterloo traded quantum equations for calf barns—and earned the U.S. government's top early-career science award (…
3 months ago
E505 Calves for a Cause $170,000 and Counting: How One Dairy Family’s Crisis United an Industry Around a Little Boy
Season 1 Episode 505
A blue baby. A rushed ambulance ride. A dairy dad sitting in a hard plastic NICU chair, staring at a tangle of wires keeping his newborn son alive wh…
3 months ago
E504 The $99 Bolus That Protected Ferme Petitclerc’s Royal Winter Fair Run
Season 1 Episode 504
Most breeders still trust eyes, instinct, and twice‑a‑day checks to protect their most valuable cattle. In this episode, we follow a real Royal Winte…
3 months, 1 week ago
E503 From 6 Crises to 75 Tractors: Reed Hostetler’s Death and the $470K Page That Rewrote Dairy’s Road
Season 1 Episode 503
Everyone says “community matters,” but almost nobody in dairy has put numbers to it. This episode walks through six real crises — manure gas deaths, …
3 months, 1 week ago