The Bullvine
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E599 They Called Mogul’s Heifers Fat. Then Came the Million Doses.
Jun 27, 202642 min
E598 25 Extra Miles Is Where Your Milk Check Starts Bleeding
Jun 26, 202629 min
E597 A Third of Retail Milk Tested Positive. The Map Said Under 0.1%.
Jun 25, 202620 min
E596 Your Checkoff Costs $36,300 a Year. Now Faust Is Suing Over What It Buys
Jun 24, 202632 min
E595 Kevin Spahn Won a National Title. Coming Home to 180 Cows Is the Harder Game.
Jun 23, 202624 min
E594 17 Genotyped Heifers and Cut Every Tag. The Dairy Network Got Them Back. The DNA Makes Sure They Can’t Disappear Clean.
Jun 22, 202627 min
E593 99.84% of Holstein AI Bulls Trace to Just Two Fathers
Jun 20, 202638 min
E592 CoBank Says the Heifer Rebuild Starts in 2027. Run the Numbers, and It’s a 5.3-Point Crawl, Not a Comeback.
Jun 18, 202617 min
E591 Pennsylvania Promised 50¢ a Cwt. Matt Espenshade Got 13. July 1, That’s Gone.
Jun 18, 202630 min
E590 A $240,000 Warning: What a $5/cwt Gap Really Does to a 400-Cow Dairy
Jun 17, 202622 min
E589 A $241M Verdict Hit a Dairy Co-op Because One Sentence Was Missing
Jun 16, 202627 min
E585 Your Cows Are Comfortable. The Milk Check Doesn’t Know It Yet.
Jun 15, 202630 min
E584 Brookview Tony Charity: A $47,000 Gamble That Outlived Everyone Who Doubted Her
Jun 13, 202641 min
E583 Outlook Dairy Lost 35 of 55 Workers Before Lunch. Then the Cows Lined Up.
Jun 12, 202618 min
E582 H5N1 Is Back in 15 Dairies in 30 Days – and Only 1 in 4 Parlor Workers Wore a Respirator
Jun 11, 202619 min
E581 Falling Semen Sales Aren’t Bad News – They’re Proof You Bred Better
Jun 10, 202625 min
E580 The Proof You Waited Three Years For Averaged a $72 Markdown
Jun 9, 202621 min
E579 Microsoft Got a “Tolerance Decision.” Dutch Dairies Got Closure Orders.
Jun 8, 202634 min
E578 Against All Odds: The Dreamers, Rebels, and Risk-Takers Who Built the Modern Holstein
Jun 6, 202639 min
E577 The Spreadsheet Beats the Pedigree: Why Holstein USA Honored an Economist
Jun 4, 202619 min
E576 Beef-on-Dairy Math: $25,200 Rides on Your Semen Order
Jun 3, 202631 min
E575 A 400-Cow Herd Loses $27,800 a Year to Ketosis – Then Pays Twice for “Rumen-Protected” Additives That Never Reach the Cow
Jun 2, 202637 min
E574 Polled Just Hit 3371 TPI. The Dehorning Iron Is Now a Choice, Not a Necessity.
Jun 1, 202627 min
E573 June Dairy Month Turns 89 — and Farmers Now Keep Just 25¢ of Every Dairy Dollar
Jun 1, 202633 min
E572 Sexation and the Ocean-View Covenant: The Herd That Taught the Holstein World to Trust Cow Families
May 31, 202637 min
E571 Oakfield Corners Dairy Lost 17 Genotyped Heifers Overnight. One Tip Brought Them Home
May 29, 202635 min
E570 Tinder for Cows: How a Kiwi Sharemilker’s ChatGPT App Is Outbreeding the National Herd
May 28, 202636 min
E569 When the Methionine Standard Hit the Fat Bin: One Midwest Dairy’s $50,000 Omega‑3 Reckoning
May 27, 202628 min
E568 Henry Yoder’s $3,447‑Per‑Cow Mastitis Wake‑Up Call: From 10–12 Cows Out of the Tank to 5–6 on His 1,100‑Cow Wisconsin Dairy
May 26, 202636 min
E567 The $97,000 Breeding Meeting: How a 500-Cow Dairy Capped Beef at 35%
May 25, 202638 min
E566 Roybrook in 2026: The $15,000 Cull Cheque Behind a Real Cow Family
May 23, 202629 min
E565 Holstein Canada Has Six Months of Cash. HAUSA Has Twenty. The 2030 Math Isn’t Close.
May 22, 202633 min
E564 Closed Since 1956: 4 Master Breeder Families and a $54,665 Inbreeding Bill
May 21, 202622 min
E563 $3,010 Heifers and the $40,000 Calf Program Math You’re Not Running
May 20, 202633 min
E562 World Dairy Expo Is the Benchmark. These 10 Other Shows Are Worth Your Passport.
May 19, 202648 min
E561 Burt Haugen Came Home From Vietnam in ’68 to Milk Cows. He’s One of the 0.4%.
May 18, 202624 min
E560 Maughlin Storm Built the Modern Holstein Cow. He Also Hid a Killer in Her Pedigree.
May 16, 202651 min
E559 $60 Silage, $220 Delivered: The 28% Hidden Premium on a 500-Cow Bunker
May 15, 202643 min
E558 The $427,500 Diesel Hole McCarty Locks Shut Before January 1
May 14, 202623 min
E557 A $45 Test, A $149,840 Gap: Inside Kansas’s 700-Cow Genomic Trap
May 13, 202623 min
E556 The Punjab Pivot: Why $12 Semen Is Dead in India by 2031
May 12, 202628 min
E555 The $221,760 Corridor Trap Hitting 600‑Cow Upper Midwest Dairies in 2026
May 11, 202624 min
R554 Roxy, Dellia and The Mothers Who Built the Breed
May 9, 202644 min
E553 Why Your Show Heifer Development Program Starts in the Maternity Pen, Not the Fitting Chute: The 28% IgG Gap That Decides the Class
May 8, 202626 min
E552 The $28,614 Tenth: Why Upper Midwest Protein Is Now Worth More Than Fat
May 7, 202630 min
E551 The 52-Point Gap Hiding in Every Jersey Sire Catalog in Canada
May 6, 202628 min
E550 How Albert Cormier Rewrote the Rules of Global Holstein Business – and Made the Whole Industry Catch Up
May 5, 202654 min
E549 $3,110 In, $1,100 Out: The Cull Trap Holding 470,000 U.S. Dairy Cows – CPI Hits 68
May 4, 202623 min
E548 72 Milk Pans, Fired Quidlings, 24% Returns: Abigail Adams, America’s First Dairy CFO
May 2, 202648 min
E547 $43 a Test, $160M for the Lab: Why Select Sires and ABS Are Quiet on the GeneSeek Close
May 1, 202625 min