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E502 To-Mar Blackstar: The One-Embryo Holstein Sire Behind 15.8% of Today’s DNA – and the Genetic Debt in Your Herd
Season 1 Episode 502
To-Mar Blackstar began as a single embryo on a working Iowa dairy — and became the most related sire in Holstein history. Randy Tompkins flushed one …
3 months, 1 week ago
E501 Dairy’s $444 Problem Has a 90% Solution – And It Lives Inside Victor Cabrera’s and the University of Wisconsin’s Dairy Brain.
Season 1 Episode 501
Somewhere on a Wisconsin dairy, a cow is about to get mastitis. She looks fine. Her milk's still flowing. Nobody in the parlor suspects a thing. But …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
E500 Six Colorado Dairy Workers Dead. OSHA’s Price: $41,101 a Life – and no jail time.
Season 1 Episode 500
Six dairy workers — including a father, his two sons, and a son-in-law — died from hydrogen sulfide exposure in a single pump room at a Colorado dair…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
3 months, 2 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…
3 months, 2 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…
3 months, 2 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 …
3 months, 2 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…
3 months, 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…
3 months, 3 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…
3 months, 3 weeks ago