Dairy Dispatch

• 16 Straight Years: The Kestells Headline Holstein USA’s 2025 Herds of Excellence
  Sixteen years, 80-ish cows, and a 39,430-lb ME average with 1,707 fat - the Kestells just made the Herds of Excellence list again, alongside Fustead a […]
• Oakfield Solomon Sunset Earns 2025 Star of the Breed – And She Did It the Hard Way
  The Lambs sold her at their 2019 Spring Sensations Sale, bought her back in 2022, and rode her to 178,000 lbs lifetime and three Eastern Fall National […]
• $9,745 to Start. 980 Acres to Pencil. The Dairy Drone Math UW–Madison Just Forced.
  UW–Madison's lead drone researcher told a webinar April 27 her study "was not enough." Marketing's still quoting 95%. Here's why 980 acres is the line […]
• 191 Cows Sold at Sedgemoor. Seven Years Later, the Macphersons Won British Friesian Herd of the Year.
  Fifty buyers. £1,409.52 all-in. The Macphersons lost the rented ground, but four Beaufort bulls were already placed at Genus ABS (the UK arm […]
• Morris’s $0.31 USMCA Fight Won’t Clear Your September Milk Check
  Class III moved $2.26/cwt in 88 days. The entire USMCA enforcement case Morris is running models to $0.31/cwt over 12 months. Guess which one clears y […]