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Dairy Dispatch

  • $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 […]
  • Cold Snaps Are Fresh-Cow Problems in Disguise – And They Cost $15/Cow Every Time
    Fresh-cow problems get protocols. Cold snaps get shrugs. Both cost $15/cow. One has a $250 fix that most herds skip. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Most herd […]
  • 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. Execut […]
  • 39% of U.S. Dairies Are Gone: Big-Herd Reality and the 3 Survival Lanes That Still Protect Your Margin
    39% of U.S. dairies gone in 5 years. Milk production? Still up. The survivors picked a lane. Have you? Executive Summary: Over the last census pe […]
  • 878 Herds. 108.3% Average. 116.4% at the Top. Where Does Your BAA Rank on Holstein USA’s 2025 Lists?
    878 herds. 108.3% average. 116.4% at the top. If you’re classifying Holsteins, you should know exactly where your BAA lands on that scale. Executive S […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Beef-on-Dairy’s $3,000 Trap: 800,000 Missing Heifers and Who Pays the Bill If your only beef-on-dairy metric is today’s calf cheque, you’re ignoring the $3,000 heifer bill with your name on it. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Beef‑on‑dairy has been a cash‑flow hero for many herds,…
  • ROCKET Blasts Into Japanese History: EX-95 Ties for Nation’s Second-Highest Score Ever At seven years old—with five calvings behind her—Sakurand Doorman Rocket ET proves that elite genetics paired with patient management can create legends that defy time. Sakurand Doorman Rocket ET EX-95-2E —…

More News

  • 5,100 Herds Left: How Wisconsin Dairy Neighbors Show Up When the Milk Truck Stops Coming
  • More Milk, Fewer Farms, $250K at Risk: The 2026 Numbers Every Dairy Needs to Run
  • You Only Get 15.9¢ of the Food Dollar: A Dairy Farmer’s Playbook for Hauling, Co‑ops, and Premium Milk
  • The $15,800 DMC Wake-Up Call: Tier 1 Just Jumped to 6 Million Pounds. Don’t Sign ‘Same as Last Year.
  • US$8 Billion in Whey Plants: Is Your Co‑op Letting Any Protein Money Reach Your Milk Cheque?

Feature Articles

  • 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 showmen dead […]
  • 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 […]
  • Subclinical Ketosis ManagementHow Your Ketosis Cut‑Point Is Leaking $25,000 a Year – And the Fresh Cow Playbook to Stop It
    Still drenching every cow over 1.2? The latest data says that the blanket rule is costing you more than the propylene glycol. […]
  • 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 […]

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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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

  • 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.
  • Same Tag, Different Feed: The Molasses Problem Your Calves Can’t Tell You About
  • The Decade Rule: Francisco Rodriguez on Breeding Champions

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