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Dairy Dispatch

  • 46% Subclinical Ketosis in ‘Good’ Herds – Are Your Transition Cows Any Different?
    One herd guessed 4% ketosis. The meter said 40.7%. This is the story behind that gap—and how to find your real number before it costs you. Executive S […]
  • $51,000 a Day in Silence: AMPI’s Paynesville Plant Went Dark, and Nobody Told You
    AMPI's Paynesville plant is dark. Its biggest member sells milk to five other processors. You sell to one. Same co-op. Guess who has a backup plan. Ex […]
  • The 89¢ Per Cow Per Day Leak at a Southwest Dairy Found in Its Feed Center
    An 8,500‑cow Southwest dairy installed a batching system and suddenly found $225 a day in feed they’d been “feeding” to thin air. Sure, your numbers w […]
  • RAW FARM’s 7 Outbreaks: Is Your Raw Milk Premium a $3 Million Gamble?
    RAW FARM has weathered 7 outbreaks and 15 recalls. Could your 400‑cow herd survive even one hit like that? Executive Summary: RAW FARM, the California […]
  • Nigel Cook’s $74 Heat Stress Number Was Never Wrong. It Was Never Finished.
    Fertility collapse, feed efficiency erosion, and the wrong potassium source are where heat stress quietly empties the tank — and none of it shows up i […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • The Mic Goes Silent: Orion Samuelson, the Voice of Agriculture, Dies at 91 He was the first voice many dairy farmers heard each morning. On March 16, 2026, that voice went quiet for good. Orion Samuelson — the Wisconsin dairy kid who became…
  • From Parkinson’s Cell Therapy to 1,000 Sorters: How STgenetics’ Hidden Hardware Changed Sexed Semen The same engineering trusted to run over 1,000 industrial sorters behind SexedULTRA 4M is now being trusted to purify cells for a human brain to treat Parkinson’s disease. Executive Summary: Japan…
  • Riverview’s 18,855‑Cow Bet: The $0.60/cwt Drain That Won’t Show Up on Your Milk Check West River's expansion near Morris could quietly cost every 500‑cow herd in the Upper Midwest shed $57,000–$86,000 a year — and the warning signs aren't where you'd expect. Executive Summary: Riverview’s…
  • Evening Sidekick Jennifer Claims Holstein Crown at 2026 UK Dairy Expo — And Makes the Case as Britain’s Greatest Show Cow Some cows win shows. Evening Sidekick Jennifer collects them. The EX-97 fifth calver owned by James and Louise Wilson of Evening Holsteins, Carlisle, was named Holstein Breed Champion at the…
  • The $52,000 Protein Leak: How 16% Holstein Rations Waste Protein Efficiency "Safe" 16% rations are bleeding $52,000/year in soybean meal your cows never needed. Two lines of barn math prove it. Executive Summary: This feature argues that many Holstein herds are leaking…

More News

  • The Metskes’ $31,700 Wake‑Up Call: What ‘Not Yet’ Costs a $4 Million Dairy
  • Updated NAAB Data Cuts Cobank’s Heifer Shortage Projection. The Barn Math Says It Doesn’t Matter  – Yet.
  • 6% or 24%? The RUFAL Audit That Turned a $40,000 Lameness Bill Into a Ration Problem.
  • NAAB’s $327.6 Million Semen Boom vs. $3,000 Heifers: The Beef-on-Dairy Math That Can Cost Your Herd $108,000 a Year
  • The $52,000 Protein Leak: How 16% Holstein Rations Waste Protein Efficiency

Feature Articles

  • Farmer-bred Holstein siresThe Golden Age of the Holstein: Farmer‑Bred Sires Who Built the Genomic Era
    They started with grade cows and manure on their trousers. They built every genomic proof you chase today. The year was somew […]
  • Show ring accountability$1,000,000 Banners, $0 Judge Accountability: The Show Ring Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About
    Before you hook up the trailer this show season, ask one question: will this show budget build your herd, or someone else's b […]
  • Jeremy Hill: The Scientist Who Became Dairy’s Fiercest Champion
    The plant-protein lobby pushed for a rule change that would've cut billions from milk payments worldwide. Jeremy Hill stopped […]
  • The $1,700 Longevity Paradox: How Peter Smith Cut Culling 23% and Put $140K Back in His Dairy
    At $3,500 a head, every unnecessary cull hurts. Peter Smith cut udder-health culls from 1-in-3 to 1-in-7 — and kept $140K a y […]
  • CAPTAIN Gained 369 TPI Points. HOMECOMING Lost 414. Inside the 59% Failure Rate of April 2020’s Top Genomic Sires
    We tracked 401 genomic Holstein bulls from April 2020 to their December 2025 daughter-proven proofs. Most never showed up. Th […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • To-Mar Blackstar: The One-Embryo Holstein Sire Behind 15.8% of Today’s DNA – and the Genetic Debt in Your Herd One farm ET that barely penciled out. Four decades later, the bull from that flush shapes 60% of Select’s lineup — and your herd’s inbreeding curve. E502 To-Mar Blackstar: The…
  • 5 Backup Bulls Nobody Wanted That Rewrote the Holstein Breed  Five “backup” bulls nobody wanted now shape most Holstein pedigrees. At 9.99% inbreeding, your next 15–20% sire choice will decide how your herd survives. E508 5 Backup Bulls Nobody Wanted…
  • Ed Bos Picked the Same Traits for 50 Years. A Million-Cow Study Just Proved He Was Right — by $2,678 Per Cow. Before your next semen order, read this: the traits adding $2,678 per cow aren't the ones on the show posters. E498 Ed Bos Picked the Same Traits for 50 Years.…
  • The Classifier Behind Eight EX‑97s: Bruno Jubinville’s Lifetime Crusade for Balance In 1997, Bruno Jubinville couldn’t order coffee in English — but he could read a cow. Today, his balance‑first gospel is shaping barns from Quebec to Brazil. E510 The Classifier…
  • How Seven Franchise Cows: Roxy, Dellia, Blackrose, and Four Others Built Modern Holstein – One Daughter at a Time From bachelor farmers to world-class photographers, meet the visionaries who trusted the maternal line when nobody else did — and reshaped the breed one daughter at a time. This is…

More Articles

  • Pennsylvania to Texas: Fine Checks, Fading Herds – 2026’s 19.70 Kill Zone
  • How Seven Franchise Cows: Roxy, Dellia, Blackrose, and Four Others Built Modern Holstein – One Daughter at a Time
  • 140M Pounds in 45‑Inch Stalls: Why +Stature Sires Don’t Always Pay
  • From 35 Cows to a WDE Grand Champion: 4 Breeders Using Sales, Embryos & Presentation to Make Registered Holsteins Pay
  • Canada’s 20 Most-Used Holstein Sires: 96th Percentile LPI, Yet Only 31st Percentile Fertility

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