Dairy Dispatch
The Jockey Club Banned It. Dairy Got 248% Better. Is Your Herd Using the Tools?Secretariat's Derby record is 53 years old. U.S. milk-per-cow is up 248% since he was born. One industry weaponized artificial insemination and genomi […]- 197 Bulls. 8 Years. Zero in Your NM$ Catalog: The Heat Tolerance Trait CDCB Still Won’t PublishTrevor Parrish in NSW started filtering sires on HT ABV in 2017. By August 2024, 197 Holstein Good Bulls cleared the threshold. CDCB's April 2025 NM$ […]
- Salem Lost a Soft-Serve Window. Somewhere Upstream, a Dairy Farm Just Lost $22,500.A 1952 soft-serve window on Boston Street went dark on April 25. Somewhere in the Northeast milk pool, a bulk tank just lost a seasonal account — and […]
- 16 Straight Years: The Kestells Headline Holstein USA’s 2025 Herds of ExcellenceSixteen years, 80-ish cows, and a 39,430-lb ME average with 1,707 fat - the Kestells just made the Herds of Excellence list again, alongside Fustead a […]
- Oakfield Solomon Sunset Earns 2025 Star of the Breed – And She Did It the Hard WayThe Lambs sold her at their 2019 Spring Sensations Sale, bought her back in 2022, and rode her to 178,000 lbs lifetime and three Eastern Fall National […]
Feature Articles
- 72 Milk Pans, Fired Quidlings, 24% Returns: Abigail Adams, America’s First Dairy CFOBraintree, 1794. Her land paid 2%. Her bonds paid up to 24%. She ordered 72 milk pans, fired the quidlings, and out‑managed h […]
- $43 a Test, $160M for the Lab: Why Select Sires and ABS Are Quiet on the GeneSeek CloseOne $43 test, one $160 million lab acquisition, and one Danone preferred-provider letter — and the cooperative system 75 year […]
- The $6,600 6‑Week Weaning ‘Savings’ Trap: Why It Can Mean an $11,000 BRD and Calving Bill on a 300‑Cow DairyOn a 300‑cow Wisconsin dairy, the milk‑replacer invoice said: “smart.” The heifer ledger quietly said the opposite. E546 The […]
- Stud Wars April 2026 — The Empire Strikes BackSTgen owns 36% of the proven TPI top 100. Select Sires took 29.5% of the genomic top 200. United Sires — an independent breed […]
- Midwest Spring National Holstein Show 2026Butlerview's Banner Day, Led by a Pair of Powerhouse Five-Year-Olds Judge: Pierre Boulet Location: Wisconsin D […]
