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Dairy Dispatch

  • $48,500 a Month: The “Audit Tax” Behind the Texas Dairy Labor Crisis
    Nine Texas dairies got the envelope in one July weekend. H-2A takes 120 days to deliver a worker. At $14.59 Class III, the contract-crew premium runs […]
  • He Was the First to Win All Three Nationals. David Bachmann Sr. of Pinehurst Farms Was One of a Kind.
    In 1976, David Bachmann Sr. loaded a semi, drove 10,008 miles across ten shows, and came home with something no farm had ever done — Premier Breeder a […]
  • National Dairy Shrine 2026 Awards: Pine-Tree Dairy, Four Pioneers, and the First-Ever Emerging Leaders
    The National Dairy Shrine 2026 Awards slate just dropped — and it's a landmark one. Pine-Tree Dairy takes the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder Award […]
  • The $8,000–$20,000 VWP Error: CDCB’s August DPR Fix Hits Long-VWP Herds First
    The August 12, 2026 evaluation retires a 23-year-old fixed voluntary waiting period and rebuilds Daughter Pregnancy Rate around how each herd actually […]
  • The Jockey Club Banned It. Dairy Got 248% Better. Is Your Herd Using the Tools?
    Secretariat's Derby record is 53 years old. U.S. milk-per-cow is up 248% since he was born. One industry weaponized artificial insemination and genomi […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • He Was the First to Win All Three Nationals. David Bachmann Sr. of Pinehurst Farms Was One of a Kind. In 1976, David Bachmann Sr. loaded a semi, drove 10,008 miles across ten shows, and came home with something no farm had ever done — Premier Breeder and Exhibitor at…
  • Oakfield Solomon Sunset Earns 2025 Star of the Breed – And She Did It the Hard Way The Lambs sold her at their 2019 Spring Sensations Sale, bought her back in 2022, and rode her to 178,000 lbs lifetime and three Eastern Fall National banners. Worth the…
  • Kooima Called Beef-on-Dairy a Packer’s Dream. Your 2027 Heifer Pen Just Sent the $117,000 Bill. 500-cow Panhandle herd, 35% beef through 2023–24. At a $3,010 replacement and a $500 calf, every beef service on a viable dairy dam now costs $583. Pipeline Index: 43.5. Yellow…
  • The Panhandle Springer Tax: One 500-Cow Breeding Sheet and a $116,600 Liability for 2028 A Panhandle dairy is 200 beef services deep on viable dams and $116,600 short on 2028 replacement value. The straw's in the gun this week. The $3,500 springer check comes…
  • 16 Straight Years: The Kestells Headline Holstein USA’s 2025 Herds of Excellence Sixteen years, 80-ish cows, and a 39,430-lb ME average with 1,707 fat - the Kestells just made the Herds of Excellence list again, alongside Fustead and Doorco. All three are…

More Dairy News

  •  197 Bulls. 8 Years. Zero in Your NM$ Catalog: The Heat Tolerance Trait CDCB Still Won’t Publish
  • Salem Lost a Soft-Serve Window. Somewhere Upstream, a Dairy Farm Just Lost $22,500.
  • Oakfield Solomon Sunset Earns 2025 Star of the Breed – And She Did It the Hard Way
  • 16 Straight Years: The Kestells Headline Holstein USA’s 2025 Herds of Excellence
  • $9,745 to Start. 980 Acres to Pencil. The Dairy Drone Math UW–Madison Just Forced.

Feature Articles

  • Culling Pressure Index$3,110 In, $1,100 Out: The Cull Trap Holding 470,000 U.S. Dairy Cows – CPI Hits 68
    $3,110 to replace her. $1,100 to ship her. That ratio is why ~470,000 U.S. cows are still in stalls they'd have left in 2019 […]
  • America's First Dairy CFO72 Milk Pans, Fired Quidlings, 24% Returns: Abigail Adams, America’s First Dairy CFO
    Braintree, 1794. Her land paid 2%. Her bonds paid up to 24%. She ordered 72 milk pans, fired the quidlings, and out‑managed h […]
  • GeneSeek acquisition impact$43 a Test, $160M for the Lab: Why Select Sires and ABS Are Quiet on the GeneSeek Close
    One $43 test, one $160 million lab acquisition, and one Danone preferred-provider letter — and the cooperative system 75 year […]
  • intake-based weaningThe $6,600 6‑Week Weaning ‘Savings’ Trap: Why It Can Mean an $11,000 BRD and Calving Bill on a 300‑Cow Dairy
    On a 300‑cow Wisconsin dairy, the milk‑replacer invoice said: “smart.” The heifer ledger quietly said the opposite. E546 The […]
  • April 2026 sire proofsStud Wars April 2026 — The Empire Strikes Back
    STgen owns 36% of the proven TPI top 100. Select Sires took 29.5% of the genomic top 200. United Sires — an independent breed […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • From 65 Cows to 10,000, the Bull Nobody Wanted, and an Economist Who Tells It Straight: WDE Names Its 2026 Award Winners  World Dairy Expo just announced three honorees who, between them, have shaped how North America breeds, benchmarks, and builds dairy herds. Here's why each one earned it. E530 From 65…
  • Stud Wars April 2026 — The Empire Strikes Back STgen owns 36% of the proven TPI top 100. Select Sires took 29.5% of the genomic top 200. United Sires — an independent breeder partnership founded in 2024 — grabbed…
  • How a $286 Milk Replacer Shortcut Cost One 600‑Cow Herd $30,000 in Future Milk When a 600‑cow Wisconsin herd tried to save $286 per calf on milk replacer, it looked like smart cost‑cutting. Three years later, the heifer records told a different story. E536…
  • Quebec Spring Holstein Show 2026 JM Valley Sidekick Jacuzzi — Grand Champion, Quebec Spring Show 2026. The Five-Year-Old, shown here by Joel Lepage, earned the banner on her powerful front end, tight fore udder blend,…
  • The New FMMO Rule Costs a 500-Cow Dairy $97,750 a Year – Before a Mile of Freight One of North Dakota's last 18 Grade A dairies just got directed to a new milk market twice in 30 months. The nearest plant that'll take the load sits five…

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