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Dairy Dispatch

  • Still Showing Up at 91: Remembering Duane Hegna, Who Made Heatherstone Wisconsin’s Welcome Mat
    91 years old. Still planning the dairy breakfast. That wasn't dedication—that was just Duane. Here's the detail that keeps coming back to me. He was s […]
  • $80 Per Cow Vanishing Monthly: 5 Moves Dairy Producers Must Make Before Spring
    You're bleeding $80/cow every month, and the industry just added 211,000 more cows to make it worse. 5 moves to make before spring. Executive Summary: […]
  • When Your Calves Outearn Your Cows: The 357,000-Heifer Shortage and the $200K Math Reshaping Dairy Survival
    Hope is not a strategy. Nostalgia is not a business plan. Three hundred fifty-seven thousand heifers short and $200K on the line—here's the math dairi […]
  • The Traits That Should Disqualify Bulls- But Often Don’t: How Genomic Selection Changed the Rules of Knockout Traits
    What dairy breeders are discovering about the gap between traits that theoretically eliminate bulls and the ones that actually prevent collection and […]
  • €100 Billion for 6% Results: The Compliance Scam Exposed – And What Smart Dairies Do Instead
    The EU just admitted €100 billion in farm compliance spending barely moved the needle. 6% emissions drop. Three decades. Now what? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:& […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • When 5:30 AM Chores Matter More Than the NHL Draft: The Martin Family’s Extraordinary Lesson in Raising Kids Who Choose to Stay Nashville took him 5th overall. He was in the barn. 'The cows don't care if you're drafted,' he said. What his family did differently should make every farm parent think…
  • Joe Simon Spent 63 Years on One Principle. His Grandchildren Just Won Premier Sire – Twice How One Iowa Grandfather's 'Best Bull, Not Cheapest Bull' Principle Built GenoSource Into a 4,000-Cow, Genetics Powerhouse There's a photograph I keep coming back to. Eight families standing together in…
  • 38% Turnover Is Bleeding You Dry. One Wisconsin Dairy Got It Under 1% – With a Waiting List. Your workers are leaving. Theirs are lining up. The difference between 38% turnover and under 1% isn't money—it's a $5,000 decision you haven't made yet EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The average dairy loses…
  • The $200-Per-Cow Blindspot: What Rising Inbreeding Is Costing You – and What a Decade of Crossbreeding Research Found New research puts hard numbers on the hidden price tag of genetic progress—and what a 10-year crossbreeding study reveals might change how you think about your next breeding decisions. Executive…
  • They Couldn’t Afford Excellence. So They Decided Who They Were Instead. 4 FARM Award Winners Prove the Decision That Matters Most Costs Nothing Executive Summary: They decided who they were before they could afford it. That's the pattern connecting the four 2025…

More News

  • The $10/cwt Trap: 8 Dairy Farms Close Every Day – Here Are Your 4 Paths Out
  • They Couldn’t Afford Excellence. So They Decided Who They Were Instead.
  • 211,000 More Dairy Cows. Bleeding Margins. The 2026 Math That Won’t Wait.
  • $234,000 Gone: The Gap Between Dairy Tech Promises and Farm-Gate Reality
  • 38% Turnover Is Bleeding You Dry. One Wisconsin Dairy Got It Under 1% – With a Waiting List.

Feature Articles

  • dairy genetics economicsFrom $1.5 Million to $150,000: The Dairy Genetics Shakeout and Your Next Move
    The dairy genetics business that built family operations for generations? It's been restructured. $1.5M down to $150K. But so […]
  • Ray Brubacher Holstein LegendRay 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 Bru […]
  • Editor’s Choice 2025: 10 Articles Your Competitors Already Read Twice
    Every breeding decision you'll make next year connects to lessons buried in this year's best journalism. A $260,000 gamble fr […]
  • Dairy breeding strategyThe Year Dairy Lost $6.7 Billion: The Bullvine’s Top 15+ Articles of 2025
    You're making 2020 breeding decisions. 2025 left $6.7 billion on the table. These 15+ stories show who adapted, who profited, […]
  • dairy industry 2025 year in reviewFrom $1 Million Cows to 6 Dead Workers: The 10 Stories That Defined Dairy’s 2025 Reckoning
    Six workers dead in a manure pit. A $75M dairy bankrupt. A cow sells for $1M. One industry. One year. Ten lessons you can't a […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • Four Bulls That Changed the Holstein Breed: Genius, Gambles, and the Price We’re Still Paying Four bulls. Four gambles. The genetics that doubled milk production—and the hidden costs nobody saw coming. E450 Four Bulls That Changed the Holstein Breed: G | RSS.com The auctioneer's voice…
  • They Called Him the Three-Legged Bull. He Created the Modern Red Holstein: The Untold Story of Hanover-Hill Triple Threat-Red 53 years ago, a man bet his career on a red calf everyone else called a defect. He was right E433 They Called Him the Three-Legged Bull. He Cre |…
  • Four Bets. Five Legends: The Holstein Visionaries Who Built Everything You’re Breeding Today Four breeders made four impossible bets. Every Holstein alive today is the payoff. Here's what they knew that we forgot. E340 Four Bets. Five Legends: The Holstein Vision | RSS.com…
  • The Room Went Quiet. Everyone Left. Then an $8,100 Phone Call Changed Holstein History Forever. The untold stories of Rudy Missy, Blackrose, and the stockmen who saw what the experts couldn't E446 The Room Went Quiet. Everyone Left. Then an $ | RSS.com It was…
  • 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…

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  • Does Your Breeding Program Fit Your Milk Market?
  • The Room Went Quiet. Everyone Left. Then an $8,100 Phone Call Changed Holstein History Forever.

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