Dairy Dispatch
NMPF and 13 Co-ops Sued Over a 2¢/cwt Program. A Legal Bill Could Cost Members MoreA 400-cow herd's NEXT share runs about $1,920 a year. Run a hypothetical $100M legal bill over 100B lb, and it's 10¢/cwt. Where would your board book […]- Laporta’s 10-Year Data: Uncooled Dry Cows’ Daughters Lose 4.85 lb/Day, Nearly Triple by ThirdWe printed 5–11 lb. The Florida data says 4.85 in first lactation and 14.3 by third. UF's cooling spreadsheet doesn't charge for that daughter. Its ow […]
- DWR Approved 500,000 Gallons a Day. Riverview’s Own Figure Comes to 375,000.Divide 500,000 by 12,500 cows, and you get 40 gallons a head. Riverview says 28 to 30. No public record we've read explains the other 125,000 to 150,0 […]
- HapchIQ and Hapcheck Split on 67,024 Holstein HMW Calls in 2025. What’s a Test Worth?Your donor reads code 0 on Hapcheck and carrier on HapchIQ. At even odds, a carrier sire and a $300 calf, that split carries about $88 of expected los […]
- Lee Morey Brings the Caverly Award to Canada: 25 AI Sires and Heifers for Junior ExhibitorsThe Alberta breeder from Unique Valleystream is the third winner of the award built in Richard Caverly's memory, and the first from outside the United […]
Feature Articles
- Hank Van Exel’s Parents Milked Grade Cows by Hand. He’s the 84th Klussendorf WinnerIt's 1954 outside Lodi, and Adam and Pietje Van Exel are milking grade cows by hand. Seventy-two years later, their son is th […]
- Peter Vail, 87, Earns the Honorary Klussendorf and Still Tells Kids to Pick a CalfThe kid who used to run off the school bus to his grandparents' barn is now the Klussendorf Association's 19th honorary membe […]
- Joe Price Wins the 2026 Klussendorf-MacKenzie Award: Butlerview’s Manager Gets Called to the ShavingsHis family sold their farm when he was 13; then he sold his own elite herd in 2010 and has spent 16 years building other peop […]
- Winners Work: What Elizabeth Hall’s Expo Speech Means for Kids Who Didn’t Get PulledAt World Dairy Expo, 294 of the 339 kids in the showmanship ring went home without a ribbon. The senior judge's closing messa […]
- Seven Breeds, One Read: Every World Dairy Expo 2026 Champion and What They Told BreedersBailey made it two. Peter Vail, 87, turned up in five breeds' results. An 18-cow New Hampshire herd won Milking Shorthorn Gra […]
