The Bullvine

Sleegerholm’s 65-Cow Jersey Bet: How a Dual-Breed Barn Earned Canada’s Master Breeder Award
Sleegerholm lost 37 head to fire. In their final Master Breeder year. They still won. Executive Summary: Barn fire. 37 dead calves. Final Jersey […]
Your Top Heifers All Trace to Three Cow Families. That’s a $ 93,300-A-Year Trap.
Your top genomic heifers probably trace to three cow families. In a $3,110 heifer market, that concentration can be a $93,300‑a‑year mistake. Executiv […]
Zoetis–Neogen’s $160M Genomics Deal: The Hidden Cost of Letting One Company Own Your Pipeline
When the same logo sits on your genomic test, your wellness index, and now the lab behind a big slice of the industry’s DNA cards, the number that mat […]
CoBank’s 800,000 Heifer Warning: Is Male Sexed Beef Pushing U.S. Dairies Into a $3,010 Trap?
You chased beef premiums. CoBank says 800,000 heifers vanished. Where does your breeding plan land in that math? Executive Summary: CoBank is war […]
$18.95 Milk & The 0.53x DSCR: Why Your Banker Is Already Moving Without You
A 550-cow Wisconsin dairy had 11 weeks of cash left at $18–$19 costs and didn’t know it. When you run a real COP, how much runway do you actually have […]

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…
Zoetis–Neogen’s $160M Genomics Deal: The Hidden Cost of Letting One Company Own Your Pipeline When the same logo sits on your genomic test, your wellness index, and now the lab behind a big slice of the industry’s DNA cards, the number that matters isn’t…
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…
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,…
Travis Tranel Killed Wisconsin’s $20 Million Zero-Interest Dairy Loan – 233 Family Herds Disappeared Anyway. Travis Tranel killed a $20M zero‑interest dairy loan. Our barn math shows a 300-cow farm could have saved $193,750 in interest. How far behind does that put you? Executive Summary: Wisconsin…

The $99 Bolus That Protected Ferme Petitclerc’s Royal Winter Fair Run
The heifer looked fine. She was eating her morning feed, moving normally, ready for the ring at Canada's most prestigious dai […]
From 6 Crises to 75 Tractors: Reed Hostetler’s Death and the $470K Page That Rewrote Dairy’s Road
OSHA priced six dead dairy workers at $246,609. Wayne County priced one dead dairyman at 75 tractors and weeks of unpaid chor […]
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 […]

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 |…
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…
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…
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 –…