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Dairy Dispatch

  • Louella Grand Champion at Schau der Besten 2026 – How the O’Kalibra Cow Family and an O’Kaliber Sire Stack Are Shaping European Holstein Type
    Louella just went Grand at Schau der Besten 2026 — on an O’Kaliber sire stack that most North American programs don’t even list in their catalogs. Exe […]
  • Mary Creek’s $1,000 Plywood Calf Hutch Fix – And the Farmer-Made Ingenuity Contest That Put It on the Map
    A plywood calf hutch panel, a combo silage bucket, and a kid‑safe bale opener just beat the catalog. Three Farmer‑Made fixes that saved calves, feed, […]
  • br2 Short Corn Beat BMR: 2.5 lb More ECM on Mid‑Lactation Cows
    BMR won the NDFD test. br2 short corn still shipped 2.5 lb more ECM per cow. Ready to see why the cows disagreed? Executive Summary: Michigan Sta […]
  • $18.95 Milk, $19.14 Costs: The $287,500 Equity Decision Facing Mid‑Size Wisconsin Dairies
    Same milk price. One 500-cow Wisconsin dairy kept $480,000 in equity; their neighbors walked away with under $200,000. The real difference was when th […]
  • McCarty’s $40 Genomic Test Exposed a 28% Error – and a $104,750 Leak on a 500-Cow Dairy
    You’re rearing every heifer. McCarty isn’t. His $40 genomic test caught a 28% error and freed up $104,750 a year on a 500-cow dairy. Executive Summary […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • Deep Roots, Strong Branches: Max Prange (1990–2026) Max Prange (1990–2026). Fourth-generation roots. A whole life's worth of love in 35 years. Max Prange, age 35, of New Prague, Minnesota, was called home to Heaven on February 16,…
  • 9.57 Million Cows, 3.9 Million Replacements: Genetics Built This Dairy Herd Paradox – and 2027 Ends It 9.57M milk cows. 3.9M replacements. $3,000 heifers. Beef-on-dairy and genetics built this paradox — and 2027 is when it breaks. Executive Summary: The U.S. milking herd just climbed back to 9.57…
  • 400 of 1,600 Danish Farms Report Bovaer‑Linked Health Issues: EFSA’s 2026 Review and the 3 Methane‑Contract Clauses to Read Twice Denmark bets on Bovaer to dodge the world's first cow-methane tax. Then a quarter of farms using it started reporting diarrhea, crashing milk yields, and dead cattle—and now the European…
  • Brenda Cochran’s $352 Million Question: Your 15¢/cwt Dairy Checkoff vs. a $500 Million Cottage Cheese Payday You paid 15¢/cwt into the dairy checkoff. A $500M cottage cheese deal didn’t need it. Are you funding TikTok trends or your own milk check? Executive Summary: Dairy farmers are still…
  • Ted Vander Schaaf Wants $1.14 Billion in Canadian Access to Actually Work. The Barn Math on Daniel Gobeil’s Québec Farm Says the Fight Is Worth a Nickel. The USMCA review hits July 1. Two dairy farmers — one in Idaho, one in Québec — are watching the same deadline with completely different balance sheets at stake. Here's…

More News

  • Travis Tranel Killed Wisconsin’s $20 Million Zero-Interest Dairy Loan – 233 Family Herds Disappeared Anyway.
  • Dam-Sourced Colostrum Drops Calf Mortality from 8.9% to 6.2% – Inside the 93-Herd Protocol
  • 76% of Your Dairy Checkoff Funds Cheese and Exports. How Much ROI Hits Your Fluid Milk Check?
  • Ted Vander Schaaf’s $147,000 Hit: What the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Means for a 500-Cow Dairy by July 24
  • The $3 Milk Trap: How 2026’s Class III–IV Spread Becomes a $382,000 Hit on a 500-Cow Milk Check

Feature Articles

  • Victor Cabrera Dairy BrainDairy’s $444 Problem Has a 90% Solution – And It Lives Inside Victor Cabrera and the University of Wisconsin’s Dairy Brain.
    A Peruvian-born professor built a system that predicts mastitis a few days before the cow shows symptoms. So why is a $40-bil […]
  • dairy worker safetySix Colorado Dairy Workers Dead. OSHA’s Price: $41,101 a Life – and no jail time.
    The confined-space program that could’ve saved six men costs about two cows. This Colorado dairy never had it. E500 Six Color […]
  • Dairy Milk Traceability Gap2,000 Cows, a $21 Million Settlement, and Fairlife’s Woodcrest Dairy Traceability Gap
    New Mexico can track every cow that left Woodcrest Dairy. It can’t tell you which bottle their milk ended up in. That gap is […]
  • Holstein stature and longevityEd 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 Pi […]
  • dairy consumer trust880M Views vs $102.7M: Nate the Hoof Guy and Farm Social Media in Dairy’s Trust Fight
    Six farms, four countries, zero marketing budget — and more reach than $102.7M in anti‑dairy campaigns. Are you letting stran […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • Walkway Chief Mark: The Backup Bull Behind Seven Percent of Every Holstein Cow Half a million lost calves. Thirty billion dollars in milk. One bull at the center of both: Walkway Chief Mark. E484 Walkway Chief Mark: The Backup Bull Behind Se |…
  • Where the Robots Hum and the Cows Stay Calm: The Four Oak Farms Way Think robots ruin cow comfort and family time? At Four Oak Farms, the robot hums, the Brown Swiss relax, and the kids still make bedtime. E476 Where the Robots Hum…
  • Sixty Cows Above the Clouds: How a Tiny Alpine Herd Won Europe’s Biggest Breeding Honor When Rupert was 10, his parents gave him a calf named Mailand. Last month, his 60-cow herd won European Breeder of the Year. Some gifts change everything. E482 Sixty Cows…
  • Diane Hendricks: She Wasn’t Allowed to Milk Cows. Now She’s Worth Over $20 Billion. She wasn’t allowed to milk cows. She now runs a $22B company. How many daughters is your dairy quietly pushing off the lane? E479 Diane Hendricks: She Wasn’t Allowed to…
  • Jack Remsberg  – The Man Behind Elevation: Three Shots, Forty Thousand Cows, and the Trust That Built a Legacy Before genomics, one photo could make or break a young sire. Jack Remsberg only needed three shots when the bull was Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation. E486 Jack Remsberg –…

More Articles

  • Men’s Hockey Gold Medal Game vs Dairy’s Real Faceoff: $24,000 Quota, 1,434 Lost Herds in Canada–USA Farming
  • The Invisible Architects: How George Wiggans and Paul VanRaden Helped Double Your Herds’ Genetic Gain
  • The 1,113 kg Question: Does Dairy Calf Starter Consistency Really Affect Lifetime Production?
  • 9.99% Inbreeding and Rising: How Blondin Sires Turned a Holstein Bottleneck into 75% Growth
  • Steve Jobs Never Soldered a Circuit: How His Mac Playbook Can Free 988 of Your Hours and Add $24,000 to a 200‑Cow Dairy

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