Dairy News & Insights for Progressive Farmers

Ontario’s One Open 2028 Dairy Position Starts at C$480,000 in Quota
One 2028 organic position is open in Ontario, closing September 30. Minimum buy-in: 20 kg of quota at C$480,000, plus roughly C$168,000 of your own eq […]
The Whey Ban Cuts Supply. Twelve Companies Decide If Your Check Moves.
Twelve companies reported 8.2 million pounds of dry whey last week. That survey — not the CME — sets your other-solids line. Eight Canadian lines clos […]
37 Sales, 38 Years, One Last Tanbark: Tom and Sandy Morris Close the World Classic
At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30, the gavel falls in The Tanbark for the 37th and final time under the management of Tom and Sandy Morris. Seve […]
The 20% Trap: Weaker Repro Burns More Sexed Semen for a Third of the Beef-on-Dairy Return
UW–Madison ran 30 strategies. At a 30% pregnancy rate, sexed semen on first-service heifers returns $6,215 a month. At 20%? Four layers deep to hold t […]
OSHA Proposed $246,609 at Prospect Ranch. Do the Division and It’s at Least 17 Citations.
OSHA proposed $246,609. Divide by the $16,550 serious cap and it's 17 citations minimum, none willful. Four of the six dead worked for the contractor. […]

$51 to $90 a Cow in Wisconsin. Zero in Ontario. Same Tariff, Same Week. Canada's counter-tariffs are live. Extension puts Wisconsin at $51–$90 a cow. Ontario's formula has no tariff line at all — which sounds like protection until you need the warning. Executive…
37 Sales, 38 Years, One Last Tanbark: Tom and Sandy Morris Close the World Classic At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30, the gavel falls in The Tanbark for the 37th and final time under the management of Tom and Sandy Morris. Seventy-two years earlier,…
USDA Publishes Two Costs for the Same 200-Cow Herd. S.4906 Prices Milk Off One of Them. USDA reports two costs for a 200-cow herd: $27.21/cwt on full economic cost, $14.53 on operating costs alone. S.4906 would set price floors from production costs without specifying which —…
Kyla Lewis Takes the Hardest Double at Young Breeders School 2026 Nineteen countries, 160 borrowed Walloon heifers, 48 Belgian kitchen tables. Kyla Lewis won the Holstein title and Best Presenter — the hardest double on the card. Here's every winner from…
$43,758 for Zero Extra Pounds — and 40 Dry Stalls That Pay Back in Months, Not Years The lights measured zero. The dry pen didn't. On a 250-cow herd that's 41 freshenings a year at $459 each — and one hour in the herd software to find…

USDA Raised Make Allowances Up to 42.6% on Self-Reported Processor Costs
7.15 cents a pound. That's what USDA added to the nonfat dry milk make allowance on cost data processors volunteered. On 500 […]
The $128,320 Additive Bill: Why the First Dairy Carbon Credit Wasn’t Bovaer
$128,320 a year on 1,000 cows, and 35 cents a cow a day you don't get back. The first U.S. dairy methane credit ever sold cam […]
“I Was Wrong. They Were Better.” – The Glengarry Ayrshires That Beat the World
A 180-acre farm near Lancaster, Ontario. A Scottish cow bought with her best calf already inside her. And the bull who turned […]
$11,525 Buys One Day Off. $14,263 Is Sitting in Hours Nobody Counts.
Two six-hour relief shifts a week run $11,525 a year. To earn it back on mastitis, you'd stop 60 cases. Nobody stops 60. Teag […]
The 22% Starter Made Better Calves – Not Bigger Ones. Here’s the 3-lb Test.
The difference showed up in tissue, not on the scale — and only in calves already eating enough starter to use it. Here's wha […]

Le Supreme Laitier – Holstein Show 2026 GOULDHAVEN ALLIGATOR EZROYAL is Grand Champion of Le Suprême Laitier 2026, exhibited by JM Valley Holstein, London Dairy Farms and Pat Conroy of Amqui. She won the Female 5-Year-Old class, took…
The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down It's August. Entry deadline's next week, the good heifer's coming along nice — and you're doing the math you never write down. $3,800 a cow. Ten days gone. Only $280…
One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History At the 1989 World Dairy Expo, three Senior Two-Year-Olds came back into the Madison ring after milking. The ribbons settled one afternoon. The consequences are still turning up in pedigrees…
Le Supreme Laitier – Jersey Show 2026 Here's the number that should stop every Jersey breeder in Quebec: five of the six heifer classes were won by daughters of bulls bred at Ferme Dulet in Saint-Pascal. Dulet…
Le Supreme Laitier – Red and White Show 2026 Judge Dominique Fortier (Fortale Holstein, St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska), an 11-year official with credentials from Expo Printemps, the Ontario Fall Show, Western Dairy Showcase, and international assignments in France, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,…