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Dairy Dispatch

  • 1,100 Cows in One Night: How Dairy Neighbors Became the Best Risk‑Management Plan on the Farm.
    When the Comps' parlor burned, nobody asked about herd average or sire stack. They asked: 'How many cows can we take?' That's dairy's real safety net. […]
  • Winter Calves, Hidden Losses: Feed, Bedding and Cold Stress That Can Cost You 1,000+ kg of Milk per Heifer
    At 50°F, your calf is already cold-stressed—burning feed for heat, not growth. That's 1,000+ kg of milk you'll never see. Warm water. Deep straw. Simp […]
  • California Dairy Shows Are Back: H5N1 Risk, Youth Dreams, and Real ROI for Your Herd
    California dairy shows are back. Now every entry form is a three-way bet on genetics, H5N1 risk, and whether your kids’ hard work really pays. Executi […]
  • The Protein Premium: How a 0.15% Milk Protein Gain Can Move Component Premiums and Your Milk Check
    A 0.15% protein bump can be worth 25–40¢/cwt. The real question is: does your contract let any of it reach your milk check? Executive Summary: Pr […]
  • 2026 Dairy Rally Or Dead-Cat Bounce? The Risk and Margin Math Behind Today’s Wall of Milk
    Milk prices are up, but the world’s awash in milk. Have you actually run the 2026 risk math on your own herd yet? Executive Summary: Early‑2026 d […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • 5,100 Herds Left: How Wisconsin Dairy Neighbors Show Up When the Milk Truck Stops Coming 5,100 herds left. Fewer barns, same milk. The real story? The nights when the barn lights stay on—and who pulls in the driveway. Executive Summary: Wisconsin starts 2026 with about 5,100…
  • Stop Tubing Every Mastitis Cow: The $15 Strip Cup Playbook That Beats Blanket Treatment – and Your Robot Alerts – on Cost and Cure Your robot’s mastitis alerts aren’t gospel. A $15 strip cup plus selective treatment beat blanket tubes on cost, antibiotics, and cow survival. Executive Summary: Most dairies still tube every mastitis cow…
  • 21 Master Breeders. 16 Years Each: Holstein Canada’s 2025 Master Breeders Just Crossed the Finish Line From a 14-cow classification round in Quebec to a first 95-pointer—here's who earned the industry's hardest win Fourteen Excellent cows in a single classification visit. That's 14 handshakes. Any breeder…
  • Protein Will Drive Your 2026 Milk Check: Are Your Components Still Built for the Butterfat Era? Is your herd’s protein‑to‑fat ratio making your processor money—or quietly costing you on every 2026 milk check? Executive Summary: Looking at 2026, what’s really moving the needle on dairy profitability isn’t…
  • How 40-Cow Dairyman Made It to the Oval Office. And the Community That Made It Happen. A multi-generation Pennsylvania farm, a 15-year policy fight, and a community that kept showing up when it would've been easier to stay home EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When the White House needed dairy…

More News

  • $11 Billion Dairy Rush: Is Your Milk Cheque Telling You You’re in a Growth Corridor or a Dead Zone?
  • The 3.5-Hour Cow Rule: How Time Out of the Pen Quietly Erases Over $300,000 from Some Milk Cheques
  • $1,000 in Diesel or $10,000 Down the Drain: The Storm Math Every Dairy Needs Before the Next Big Blow
  • Protein Will Drive Your 2026 Milk Check: Are Your Components Still Built for the Butterfat Era?
  • The −21 to +21 Choline Playbook: How to Stop Leaving $40 per Transition Cow in the Liver

Feature Articles

  • Dairy Legacy$30 Million, Co‑ops, and Genetic ROI: Who Really Keeps Your Dairy Barn Lights On
    $30M in premiums, parachute semen, Trans Ova, and your next milk contract: this is who really keeps your dairy barn lights on […]
  • dairy farm successionOnly 16.5% of Dairy Farms Make It to the Third Generation – The Succession Decisions That Stop a Buyout from Killing Your Herd
    If your “fair” buyout loads $600+ of debt on every cow, you’re not doing succession—you’re planning a dispersal in slow motio […]
  • Dairy’s Darkest CrimesLocked 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 dea […]
  • Outlook Dairy ICE raidOne 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 Wor […]
  • Hailey Whitters Dairy Story‘I Was So Jealous of the Dairy Princesses’: How Hailey Whitters Got Her Full-Circle Moment on a Working Dairy Farm
    ‘I was so jealous of the dairy princesses. That wasn't in the cards for me.' Twenty years later, she's standing in a working […]

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…
  • 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…
  • Ray Brubacher: The Holstein Legend Who Quit Two Dream Jobs  Ray Brubacher built three generations by breaking one rule: Stay loyal to people who break their word. He didn't. 455 Ray Brubacher: The Holstein Legend Who Quit Tw | RSS.com…
  • Robert Chicoine and the Bull Nobody Wanted: The Data Revolution That Lives in Your Herd’s DNA How a farm boy's love of pedigrees sparked a data revolution that reshaped global dairy genetics—and why his lessons matter more than ever in 2025 E458 Robert Chicoine and the…

More Articles

  • How Your Ketosis Cut‑Point Is Leaking $25,000 a Year – And the Fresh Cow Playbook to Stop It
  • They Kept the Barn Lights On
  • Stop Breeding by Color: Genomics, Heat Stress and Beef‑on‑Dairy Math That Can Add Over $4/cwt to Holstein Margins
  • Snowboots Wis Milky Way: From Gunny Sack Calf to Everyone’s Favorite Brood Cow
  • Unlock $700 Per Cow: The Rumen Microbiome Strategy That Fixes Hidden Feed Efficiency Losses.

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