The Bullvine

Dr. Bray’s $5 Sodium Bisulfate Gamble: Zero Lung Lesions and the Real Cost of Calf Barn Ammonia
BRD treatment runs $42 a calf. In Dr. Bray’s trial, a $5 sodium bisulfate protocol delivered zero lung lesions on the treated side. Executive Summary: […]
Harrisburg Dairies’ Bankruptcy Left $985,012 in Unpaid Milk – And Put 15 Farms in a Clawback Trap.
You think the worst day is when the truck stops. For 15 Harrisburg shippers, the real hit came later — when $985,012 in milk became a risk of a bankru […]
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 […]

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…
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…
Dam-Sourced Colostrum Drops Calf Mortality from 8.9% to 6.2% – Inside the 93-Herd Protocol In a 93‑herd study, farms feeding pooled colostrum lost ~20 calves out of 220. Dam‑fed herds lost 14. The only change was which colostrum hit the gut first. Executive Summary: A…
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…

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 h […]
Dairy’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 […]
Six 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 […]
2,000 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 […]
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 Pi […]

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 –…