The Bullvine
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E660 A Mentor, Six Names and a Board: What Three 2026 Expo Honors Actually Have in Common
Sep 25, 202643 min
E659 Five Roads to Madison: The Cows, Families and Decisions Behind Five Elite Programs
Sep 24, 202638 min
E658 Lactanet Gave Murray Hunt Its Distinction Award. He Gave the Room a 3,500-Herd Problem
Sep 23, 202643 min
E657 World Dairy Expo 2026 Holstein Show Preview: 11th Place Is Now The Favorite
Sep 21, 202643 min
E656 They Mortgaged Three Wisconsin Farms to Build World Dairy Expo. Four Years Later It Was Nearly Bankrupt.
Sep 19, 202629 min
E655 Three Feed Inputs Set the DMC Margin. Diesel Isn’t One, and It Rose 65%.
Sep 18, 202628 min
E654 Iowa’s Manure Penalty Never Left $5,000. The Restitution Ran 6.7 Times Higher.
Sep 17, 202625 min
E653 Waterloo Warned Us: How the World’s Greatest Dairy Show Died – and What Twelve Years of Expo’s Own Numbers Say Before the Gates Open
Sep 16, 202628 min
E652 USDA Raised Make Allowances Up to 42.6% on Self-Reported Processor Costs
Sep 15, 202628 min
E651 The $128,320 Additive Bill: Why the First Dairy Carbon Credit Wasn’t Bovaer
Sep 14, 202624 min
E650 “I Was Wrong. They Were Better.” – The Glengarry Ayrshires That Beat the World
Sep 12, 202639 min
E649 $11,525 Buys One Day Off. $14,263 Is Sitting in Hours Nobody Counts.
Sep 11, 202636 min
E648 The 22% Starter Made Better Calves – Not Bigger Ones. Here’s the 3-lb Test.
Sep 10, 202632 min
E647 9,860 First-Lactation VGs. Three Stress Tests. One Undisputed Winner.
Sep 9, 202643 min
E646 The Biggest Dairies Pay the Highest Wages. Their Labor Costs $1.85/cwt.
Sep 8, 202624 min
E645 24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn.
Sep 6, 202646 min
E644 Every Tuesday Dann Brady Throws Out Bulls He Likes. One of Them Wasn’t Logic PP
Sep 4, 202648 min
E643 127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs
Sep 3, 202633 min
E642 Nordic Holstein Coancestry Rose Twentyfold. Your Inbreeding Percentage Won’t Show You.
Sep 1, 202631 min
E641 94.3% of Trough Samples Had Coliforms. Your Wellhead Test Won’t Show It
Aug 31, 202641 min
E640 One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History
Aug 29, 202644 min
E639 The Access Fight Is Worth 5¢. Class III Already Took 64¢.
Aug 28, 202611 min
E638
Aug 27, 202624 min
E637 The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down
Aug 25, 202630 min
E636 That cull cow brings $2,340. Her replacement costs $3,500.
Aug 24, 202619 min
E635 500,000 Gallons a Day: A Ceiling to the City, a Floor to Its Challengers
Aug 21, 202622 min
E634 The Colostrum Standard Moved — and 39% of Your "Passed" Calves Are Losing Milk
Aug 18, 202624 min
E633 DOJ Signals “Ongoing” A.I. Bid-Rigging Probe: The $100M Exposure, the Unnamed Co-Conspirators, and the Safeguard Nobody Requires
Aug 17, 202631 min
E632 One Cow, Seven Bulls, Six Countries: What August 2026’s Proof Run Really Tells You About Your Semen Tank
Aug 14, 202636 min
E631 August 2026 USA Proofs: Four Sires Are Driving the Entire Top 10 – Is Your Semen Tank Truly Diversified?
Aug 12, 202630 min
E630 87% Can’t Point to the Agreement. 92% Never Got Paid. October 2 Is the Deadline.
Aug 10, 202630 min
E629 At $3,010 a Heifer, Your Worst Cow Just Got a Reprieve
Aug 6, 202622 min
E628 The 18,855-Cow Permit and a 92¢ Formula Change Your Lender’s Already Run
Aug 6, 202640 min
E627 $4.17 a Straw for Polled. The A2A2 Premium Isn’t Reaching You.
Aug 4, 202633 min
E626 The $1,300 Gap Between the Bull You Want and the Bull You Should Buy
Jul 31, 202620 min
E625 The $93,300 Cow Family: Why the Breeding Fight at Your Kitchen Table Is Really a Succession War
Jul 30, 202617 min
E624 $20.11 Under Water on Every Hundredweight – Before the Bad Month
Jul 29, 202621 min
E623 Two Barns Run 60 Cows Per Robot. One’s Broke
Jul 24, 202624 min
E622 Your Oldest Cow Isn’t a Cull — She’s a $3,000 Heifer You Don’t Have to Buy
Jul 23, 202618 min
E621 $175 Million Expansion, 48% Fewer Exhibitors: Can a Bigger Hall Fix World Dairy Expo’s Trade Floor?
Jul 22, 202626 min
E620 Agri-Mark Printed the Suicide Hotline on the Milk Cheque. The Fix Isn’t Grit — It’s 25 Hours a Week.
Jul 21, 202635 min
E619 Holstein’s 60-Inch Rule: Why Breeders Are Backing It With 53%-vs-21% Math
Jul 20, 202625 min
E618 Rockwood Rocket Tone: 6-Time All-Canadian, and “an Absolute Disaster” as a Sire
Jul 18, 202640 min
E617 The 18% Trap: One Pregnancy Rate, Two Completely Different Diseases
Jul 17, 202626 min
E616 The 5¢ TRQ Fight vs. a $96,000 Hole in Your Milk Check
Jul 16, 202638 min
E615 Why Cow Family Beats a +3000 GTPI Calf: The $12,000 Embryo Math Every Breeder Should Run
Jul 15, 202629 min
E614 The Hidden Labor Bill That Makes “Ethical Robot Dairies” Pencil — And Who’s Quietly Paying It
Jul 14, 202631 min
E613 The $134,000 Hole You Can’t See: Why “We Paid Our Bills” Is the Most Expensive Sentence in Dairy
Jul 13, 202621 min
E612 Three Gold Medal Sons From One Cow the Studs Didn’t Want
Jul 11, 202649 min
E611 77,204 to 51,525: The World Dairy Expo Conversation We Need to Have
Jul 10, 202636 min