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Dairy Dispatch

  • Your Lender’s Already Doing the Math: The 45-Day Survival Guide for Mid-Sized Dairy Operations
    With $11 billion in new processing capacity reshaping the industry and loan renewals looming, the decisions you make before February will echo for yea […]
  • The Robot Metric Dealers Don’t Emphasize – And Why It Predicts Your Payback
    A cow making 85 lbs is costing you money. A cow making 75 lbs is driving profit. Robot economics don't work like you think. Executive Summary: Th […]
  • Why Camel Dairy Gets $35/Liter, and You’re Stuck at Blend Price
    His camels make 6 liters/day at $35 each. Your Holsteins make 50 liters/day at blend price. You're outproducing him 8-to-1. He's out-earning you. Why? […]
  • When Christmas Magic Happens at 4 A.M.: The Vermont Dairy Farmer Who Turned a Midnight Calving into a Children’s Classic
    While the world sleeps on Christmas Eve, farmers walk to the barn. One dairyman turned that walk into a children's book. There is a specific kind of s […]
  • Blondin Goldwyn Subliminal EX-97: A Final Bow for the Queen
    The Holstein breed says goodbye to an irreplaceable icon whose influence will echo through genetics and show rings for decades. There are great cows. […]

Top News from the Past Week

  • When Christmas Magic Happens at 4 A.M.: The Vermont Dairy Farmer Who Turned a Midnight Calving into a Children’s Classic While the world sleeps on Christmas Eve, farmers walk to the barn. One dairyman turned that walk into a children's book. There is a specific kind of silence that only…
  • The Man Who Made Sure 11,500 Dairy Farms Had Somewhere to Ship Their Milk Gary Hanman built more than a cooperative. He built a promise that no matter how dark things got, someone would always come for the milk. I've written about dairy farmers…
  • Wisconsin’s First H5N1 Case: The 5-Day Spread No One Sees Coming—And How to Catch It Wisconsin's first H5N1 case: healthy cow, full production, zero symptoms. Virus has already been spreading for 5 days. What farms with better outcomes did differently—and when they did it. EXECUTIVE…
  • $15 Milk Is Coming: The German Butter Signal Every Dairy Farmer Needs to See German butter at €0.77. U.S. milk at $15. The math is already done—now it's decision time. Executive Summary: German butter crashed to €0.77—down 35% in five months—and that price signal typically…
  • Blondin Goldwyn Subliminal EX-97: A Final Bow for the Queen The Holstein breed says goodbye to an irreplaceable icon whose influence will echo through genetics and show rings for decades. There are great cows. There are legendary cows. And then,…

More News

  • The Mercosur Reckoning: 10,000 Farmers in Brussels Just Changed the Global Dairy Conversation
  • Squeezed Out? A 12-Month Decision Guide for 300-1,000 Cow Dairies
  • From -43% to +0.8%: The Genetic Shift Powering Dairy’s First Fluid Milk Growth Since 2009
  • Profitable but Drowning: The Interest Rate Crisis Reshaping Mid-Size Dairy
  • The $4/cwt Your Milk Check Is Missing – And What’s Actually Working to Get It Back

Feature Articles

  • Influential Holstein geneticsThe 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. Eve […]
  • Beef-on-dairy strategyBeef-on-Dairy’s $6,215 Secret: Why 72% of Herds Are Playing It Wrong
    64-year low in beef cows. $1,100 dairy-cross calves. 2.5 million replacement heifers. Do the math. E445 Beef-on-Dairy’s $6,21 […]
  • Mastitis Biofilm PreventionZero Mastitis Tubes Since March: The Protocol Change That’s Emptying Hospital Pens
    Your antibiotics aren't failing. The bacteria are hiding—in fortresses 1,000x stronger than the treatment you're using. Here' […]
  • Dairy farm management strategiesTrembling Hands, A Decade of Faith, 200 Fewer Cows: Three Paths to the Same Truth
    Trembling hands at Expo. A decade of faith. 200 fewer cows. Three families. One truth about what excellence really costs. E44 […]
  • dairy replacement costsShe Won’t Win Shows, But She Pays the Bills: The Rise of the $3,000 ‘System Cow.’
    The 'System Cow' won't win a banner. But she might save you US$180,000 a year. E442 She Won’t Win Shows, But She Pays the Bil […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • 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 Robot Truth: 86% Satisfaction, 28% Profitability – Who’s Really Winning? When satisfaction rates soar but profitability plummets, the dairy industry's automation revolution reveals uncomfortable truths about who really wins The Robot Paradox reveals dairy farming's uncomfortable truth: while 86% of…
  • Trembling Hands, A Decade of Faith, 200 Fewer Cows: Three Paths to the Same Truth Trembling hands at Expo. A decade of faith. 200 fewer cows. Three families. One truth about what excellence really costs. E443 Trembling Hands, A Decade of Faith, 200 Fewer |…
  • The Woman Who Milks Other People’s Dreams: Michele Schroeder’s Unexpected Path from Historic Dairy Legacy to Relief Milking Pioneer Meet the Minnesota dairy farmer who sold her cows but kept her calling—and why her story matters more than you think for the industry's future. E436 The Woman Who Milks…

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  • The 2025 Gift Guide Built on Four Hard Questions
  • Colostrum. Lameness. Beef Sires. The December 2025 Journal of Dairy Science Just Changed All Three.

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