Dairy Dispatch

• The 3.5-Hour Cow Rule: How Time Out of the Pen Quietly Erases Over $300,000 from Some Milk Cheques
  You don’t need a new barn to find $300,000. A stopwatch and the 3.5‑hour cow rule might be the cheapest margin boost on your farm. Executive Summary:& […]
• 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 20 […]
• $1,000 in Diesel or $10,000 Down the Drain: The Storm Math Every Dairy Needs Before the Next Big Blow
  Your 72-Hour Playbook—Generators, Fuel, Water, and the MLP Paperwork That Actually Pays Back EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Winter Storm Uri saw Texas dairie […]
• The −21 to +21 Choline Playbook: How to Stop Leaving $40 per Transition Cow in the Liver
  21 trials. 1,313 cows. +1.7 kg ECM/day at ~13 g choline. The catch: only works from −21 to +21 days. Miss that window, miss the money. Executive Summa […]
• $90K Less Margin, 214K More Cows: Beef‑on‑Dairy, Calf Checks and Your 2026 Survival Playbook
  Class III in the mid‑$16s, feed cheap, margins tight. The real test in 2026 is whether calf checks and components close your gap. Executive Summary:&n […]