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Dairy Dispatch

  • $15 Pizza. 73-Cent Milk Check. The Real Super Bowl Score for Dairy Farmers.
    America eats 29 million pounds of cheese today — and the FMMO make allowance ensures your share keeps shrinking. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Americans are […]
  • Super Bowl LX and the $869-Per-Cow Sire Gap: The Breeding Strategy Your Dairy Can’t Ignore
    Super Bowl LX will burn $8M a spot. Your sire picks can swing $869 per cow. Still letting someone else call the breeding plays? Executive Summary:&nbs […]
  • Powder Just Outpriced Cheddar: The $15,000/Month Gap Reshaping Your 2026 Milk Check
    NDM's best week since 2007 exposed a Class III/IV spread that's costing cheese-pool herds $10,000–$15,000/month. Four moves before spring flush. Execu […]
  • Idaho’s $3.87 Billion Edge: Why Geography Is Beating Management in the West Coast Dairy Wars
    The Reynolds family bet half their Idaho farm on dairy. An Oregon neighbor did everything "right" and still bleeds cash. The gap? Up to $600,000 a yea […]
  • Who Really Owns Your Dairy? Three Ways to Stop Divorce and Succession Turning Unpaid Spousal Work into a Land Sale
    If your spouse runs the books, calves, and fresh cows but isn’t on the papers, divorce or death could cost you a field. Executive Summary: Many d […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • A 31-Year-Old Dairy Farmer Died in a Manure Pit. What Wayne County Did Next Is a Playbook You Can Steal. One year after Reed Hostetler's death at L&R Dairy in Ohio, his community is still proving what farm safety and resilience look like when farmers refuse to let one of…
  • $1.6B to Texas and Kansas, 76% of Wisconsin Farms Gone: Scale Up, Go Premium, or Get Out Hilmar, Leprino, and Valley Queen are pulling milk toward new regions. For producers in traditional dairy states, the math has changed—and so have the breeding goals. Executive Summary: Since 2020, Hilmar,…
  • Holstein Conformation’s $2,678 Gap: How Holstein USA’s Million‑Cow Study Should Change Your Linear Type Strategy Holstein USA’s million‑cow study found a $2,678 lifetime gap tied to conformation. The question isn’t if it’s real—it’s how close your herd is to the wrong side of it. Executive…
  • 79% of U.S. Milk Runs on Immigrant Labor. If Yours Vanishes, You Have 72 Hours. 79% of U.S. milk runs on immigrant labor. One Idaho dairy lost a third of its crew in 3 weeks—no raid, just fear from one 50 miles away. You have…
  • The 143-Hour Week at Clark Farms: The Real Math of On-Farm Creamery ROI and Your Time. Clark Farms operated a creamery for 6 years, serving dozens of accounts. They just shut it down—and kept milking. Here's the math. Executive Summary: Clark Farms, a fifth‑generation dairy in Delhi,…

More News

  • FMMO Pays $1.71/lb for Butterfat Worth $2.95: What USDA’s December Report Tells You About Your Milk Check in 2026
  • $1.6B to Texas and Kansas, 76% of Wisconsin Farms Gone: Scale Up, Go Premium, or Get Out
  • Robots Won’t Save Your Dairy If You’re Alone: 5 Hard Truths About Labor and Robotic Milking ROI Under 500 Cows
  • GDT’s 6.7% Rally, $14.59 Class III: Head-Fake? Your Call Before April
  • Record Exports, Reeking Checks: How a 34% Hidden Tax Costs You $5.85/Cwt

Feature Articles

  • Walkway Chief MarkWalkway 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 […]
  • Robotic Milking Pays 13% More – After 7 Years of Red Ink
    Here's the cash flow math the dealer didn't show you — and the one number that predicts whether your robots will pay E483 Rob […]
  • 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. […]
  • calf gut health programsDairy Calf Nutrition for Healthier, Higher‑Producing Cows
    “Reminder: every extra pound of pre‑weaning gain can mean 1,000+ lbs more milk later. Are your calves leaving money on the ta […]
  • Udder Edema ManagementUdder Edema Hits 86% of Fresh Heifers – A $3,500-$16,000 Hit in a $3,000–$4,000 Heifer Market (And a $40/Head Fix)
    86% of fresh heifers have udder edema. That's not a cosmetic issue — it's $3,500–$16,000 a year walking out your door. E480 U […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • Locked from the Inside: Dairy’s Darkest Crimes and the Weak Spots They Exploited Barn doors locked from the inside. Semen straws filled with dishwater. A $7,500 cow insured for $250,000—and two dairymen dead by their own hands within a week.  E472 Locked from…
  • 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…
  • Harborcrest Rose Milly: From Pig Money to Holstein Royalty Pig money bought the heifer that his neighbors laughed at. Today, Harborcrest Rose Milly EX-97 runs through every Holstein pedigree in North America. E460 Harborcrest Rose Milly: From Pig Money…
  • They Kept the Barn Lights On That was a sad day when those eight cows didn't come in the barn in the morning, and you go out and… yeah E468 They Kept the Barn Lights On…
  • One ICE Raid. 35 Workers Gone. A New Mexico Dairy Learned What Community Really Means. One ICE raid stopped a dairy cold. 35 workers gone. But it also revealed who neighbours really are. E471 One ICE Raid. 35 Workers Gone. A New Mexico D |…

More Articles

  • Diane Hendricks: She Wasn’t Allowed to Milk Cows. Now She’s Worth Over $20 Billion.
  • The Importers: How 4 Visionaries in 30 Years Built the Foundation of Modern Holstein Genetics
  • Dairy Farmers Face a 3.5x Higher Suicide Risk Than Farm Accidents – What Your Cows See First
  • Where the Robots Hum and the Cows Stay Calm: The Four Oak Farms Way
  • 38.8% Turnover Is Bleeding Dairies Dry. These Dairy Neighbours Turned Kitchen Tables into Labor Plans.

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