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Dairy Dispatch

  • Finding a New Buyer Took Days. The $3.25/cwt They’d Already Lost Took Ten Months.
    Every one of Harrisburg's remaining shippers found a new processor within days. Not one of them got the unpaid milk back. Executive Summary: Penn […]
  • Kyla Lewis Takes the Hardest Double at Young Breeders School 2026
    Nineteen countries, 160 borrowed Walloon heifers, 48 Belgian kitchen tables. Kyla Lewis won the Holstein title and Best Presenter — the hardest double […]
  • Milcobel’s €8 Clause in 2026: €62,000, or Three Times That?
    Four of the world's ten largest dairy companies are farmer-owned. All four are running the same playbook Lactalis has been running — and the fine prin […]
  • $1,934,000 for One Missing PTO Guard – and Who Actually Pays It
    It's a Tuesday repair. A guard comes off the PTO shaft, the machine goes back to work, and nobody writes it down. Seven years later that missing line […]
  • Chobani Needs 8.2 Million Pounds a Day. Don’t Pour Concrete Until You See the Paper.
    It's fall. Springing heifers are $3,400–$4,400, Allentown doesn't take milk until 2027, and Chobani's CEO just said there's "still work to do." What e […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • Kyla Lewis Takes the Hardest Double at Young Breeders School 2026 Nineteen countries, 160 borrowed Walloon heifers, 48 Belgian kitchen tables. Kyla Lewis won the Holstein title and Best Presenter — the hardest double on the card. Here's every winner from…
  • Five Bulls in Nine Years, 35 Excellents from a 10-Cow Jersey String: Jersey’s Deep Bench The 2026 National Young Jersey Breeder Award went to nine people on six farms running 18 milking Jerseys to 1,400 head — and the genetics are leaving all of them..…
  • Chobani Needs 8.2 Million Pounds a Day. Don’t Pour Concrete Until You See the Paper. It's fall. Springing heifers are $3,400–$4,400, Allentown doesn't take milk until 2027, and Chobani's CEO just said there's "still work to do." What exactly are you borrowing against? Executive Summary: Chobani's…
  • $1,934,000 for One Missing PTO Guard – and Who Actually Pays It It's a Tuesday repair. A guard comes off the PTO shaft, the machine goes back to work, and nobody writes it down. Seven years later that missing line item is…
  • A 2.1 Ratio Now Costs You $2 a Kilogram of Quota. Do You Know Yours? Ontario's new formula went live April 1. Below a 2.14 SNF:butterfat ratio, your cheque is already smaller — about $2 per kilogram of quota. Do you know yours? THE SHORT…

More Dairy News

  • Five Bulls in Nine Years, 35 Excellents from a 10-Cow Jersey String: Jersey’s Deep Bench
  • You Paid for 415 Kilos of Genetic Gain. Inbreeding Kept 143 of Them.
  • Your Embryo Rep Negotiates the $50 Line. The $217 Line Has No Rep.
  • A 2.1 Ratio Now Costs You $2 a Kilogram of Quota. Do You Know Yours?
  • Holding Pen Cooling Lifted This Herd’s Summer Preg Rate Floor Three Points

Feature Articles

  • dairy labor costThe Biggest Dairies Pay the Highest Wages. Their Labor Costs $1.85/cwt.
    ERS puts labor at $1.85/cwt on farms above 2,000 cows and $13.18 on herds under 50 — while the big farms pay the higher wages […]
  • Dunton and Dawdy24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn.
    Twenty-four cows nobody else wanted from Kansas. One stubborn Ontario dairyman who used an outcross bull exactly once. Betwee […]
  • Logic PP sireEvery Tuesday Dann Brady Throws Out Bulls He Likes. One of Them Wasn’t Logic PP
    The screen kills bulls the team genuinely wants. It also produced Canada's #1 Newly Proven GLPI sire — and a 70-head sale tha […]
  • cull cow transport127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs
    She went on the list in April at 209 days in milk. It's September, she's still milking, and the odds she's thin have been cli […]
  • Holstein coancestryNordic Holstein Coancestry Rose Twentyfold. Your Inbreeding Percentage Won’t Show You.
    Nordic Holstein female coancestry climbed from 0.02% to 0.39% per year while pedigree inbreeding looked harmless. Coancestry […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • Le Supreme Laitier – Holstein Show 2026 GOULDHAVEN ALLIGATOR EZROYAL is Grand Champion of Le Suprême Laitier 2026, exhibited by JM Valley Holstein, London Dairy Farms and Pat Conroy of Amqui. She won the Female 5-Year-Old class, took…
  • The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down It's August. Entry deadline's next week, the good heifer's coming along nice — and you're doing the math you never write down. $3,800 a cow. Ten days gone. Only $280…
  • One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History At the 1989 World Dairy Expo, three Senior Two-Year-Olds came back into the Madison ring after milking. The ribbons settled one afternoon. The consequences are still turning up in pedigrees…
  • Le Supreme Laitier – Red and White Show 2026 Judge Dominique Fortier (Fortale Holstein, St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska), an 11-year official with credentials from Expo Printemps, the Ontario Fall Show, Western Dairy Showcase, and international assignments in France, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,…
  • Le Supreme Laitier – Jersey Show 2026 Here's the number that should stop every Jersey breeder in Quebec: five of the six heifer classes were won by daughters of bulls bred at Ferme Dulet in Saint-Pascal. Dulet…

More Articles

  • The Biggest Dairies Pay the Highest Wages. Their Labor Costs $1.85/cwt.
  • 24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn.
  • Every Tuesday Dann Brady Throws Out Bulls He Likes. One of Them Wasn’t Logic PP
  • 127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs
  • Nordic Holstein Coancestry Rose Twentyfold. Your Inbreeding Percentage Won’t Show You.

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