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E672 USDA's January Milk Forecast Beat Last Year's Price in 6 of 10 Years

E671 Elevation Still Leads at 15.2%: How Holstein USA’s August 2026 Top 15 All Connect

E670 Dairy Data Pipeline: Milk Recording Herds Fell 17.3% Since 2020, Cows Just 8.2%. What Reaches the Proof?

E669 Dane County’s Potential $200 Million Plan Starts With the Coliseum. Expo’s Guaranteed Term Ends in 2028

E668 They Chose Dairy: Eight Women Show What a Dairy Career Can Look Like

E667 Logic-PP’s August 2026 Proof: 3909 LPI, and Two PP Sons Out of His Own Half-Sister

E666 The Cow She Wouldn’t Let Go: Alyson Doiron and Ella Win Junior Supreme at World Dairy Expo

E665 Hank Van Exel’s Parents Milked Grade Cows by Hand. He’s the 84th Klussendorf Winner

E664 Peter Vail, 87, Earns the Honorary Klussendorf and Still Tells Kids to Pick a Calf

E663 Joe Price Wins the 2026 Klussendorf-MacKenzie Award: Butlerview’s Manager Gets Called to the Shavings

E662 Winners Work: What Elizabeth Hall’s Expo Speech Means for Kids Who Didn’t Get Pulled

E661 Seven Breeds, One Read: Every World Dairy Expo 2026 Champion and What They Told Breeders

E660 A Mentor, Six Names and a Board: What Three 2026 Expo Honors Actually Have in Common

E659 Five Roads to Madison: The Cows, Families and Decisions Behind Five Elite Programs

E658 Lactanet Gave Murray Hunt Its Distinction Award. He Gave the Room a 3,500-Herd Problem

E657 World Dairy Expo 2026 Holstein Show Preview: 11th Place Is Now The Favorite

E656 They Mortgaged Three Wisconsin Farms to Build World Dairy Expo. Four Years Later It Was Nearly Bankrupt.

E655 Three Feed Inputs Set the DMC Margin. Diesel Isn’t One, and It Rose 65%.

E654 Iowa’s Manure Penalty Never Left $5,000. The Restitution Ran 6.7 Times Higher.

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

E652 USDA Raised Make Allowances Up to 42.6% on Self-Reported Processor Costs

E651 The $128,320 Additive Bill: Why the First Dairy Carbon Credit Wasn’t Bovaer

E650 “I Was Wrong. They Were Better.” – The Glengarry Ayrshires That Beat the World

E649 $11,525 Buys One Day Off. $14,263 Is Sitting in Hours Nobody Counts.

E648 The 22% Starter Made Better Calves – Not Bigger Ones. Here’s the 3-lb Test.

E647 9,860 First-Lactation VGs. Three Stress Tests. One Undisputed Winner.

E646 The Biggest Dairies Pay the Highest Wages. Their Labor Costs $1.85/cwt.

E645 24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn.

E644 Every Tuesday Dann Brady Throws Out Bulls He Likes. One of Them Wasn’t Logic PP

E643 127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs

E642 Nordic Holstein Coancestry Rose Twentyfold. Your Inbreeding Percentage Won’t Show You.

E641 94.3% of Trough Samples Had Coliforms. Your Wellhead Test Won’t Show It

E640 One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History

E639 The Access Fight Is Worth 5¢. Class III Already Took 64¢.

E638 Rumination Drops Five Days Early. The Payback Takes Six Years.

E637 The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down

E636 That cull cow brings $2,340. Her replacement costs $3,500.

E635 500,000 Gallons a Day: A Ceiling to the City, a Floor to Its Challengers

E634 The Colostrum Standard Moved — and 39% of Your "Passed" Calves Are Losing Milk

E633 DOJ Signals “Ongoing” A.I. Bid-Rigging Probe: The $100M Exposure, the Unnamed Co-Conspirators, and the Safeguard Nobody Requires

E632 One Cow, Seven Bulls, Six Countries: What August 2026’s Proof Run Really Tells You About Your Semen Tank

E631 August 2026 USA Proofs: Four Sires Are Driving the Entire Top 10 – Is Your Semen Tank Truly Diversified?

E630 87% Can’t Point to the Agreement. 92% Never Got Paid. October 2 Is the Deadline.

E629 At $3,010 a Heifer, Your Worst Cow Just Got a Reprieve

E628 The 18,855-Cow Permit and a 92¢ Formula Change Your Lender’s Already Run

E627 $4.17 a Straw for Polled. The A2A2 Premium Isn’t Reaching You.

E626 The $1,300 Gap Between the Bull You Want and the Bull You Should Buy

E625 The $93,300 Cow Family: Why the Breeding Fight at Your Kitchen Table Is Really a Succession War

E624 $20.11 Under Water on Every Hundredweight – Before the Bad Month

E623 Two Barns Run 60 Cows Per Robot. One’s Broke

E622 Your Oldest Cow Isn’t a Cull — She’s a $3,000 Heifer You Don’t Have to Buy

E621 $175 Million Expansion, 48% Fewer Exhibitors: Can a Bigger Hall Fix World Dairy Expo’s Trade Floor?

E620 Agri-Mark Printed the Suicide Hotline on the Milk Cheque. The Fix Isn’t Grit — It’s 25 Hours a Week.

E619 Holstein’s 60-Inch Rule: Why Breeders Are Backing It With 53%-vs-21% Math

E618 Rockwood Rocket Tone: 6-Time All-Canadian, and “an Absolute Disaster” as a Sire

E617 The 18% Trap: One Pregnancy Rate, Two Completely Different Diseases

E616 The 5¢ TRQ Fight vs. a $96,000 Hole in Your Milk Check

E615 Why Cow Family Beats a +3000 GTPI Calf: The $12,000 Embryo Math Every Breeder Should Run

E614 The Hidden Labor Bill That Makes “Ethical Robot Dairies” Pencil — And Who’s Quietly Paying It

E613 The $134,000 Hole You Can’t See: Why “We Paid Our Bills” Is the Most Expensive Sentence in Dairy

E612 Three Gold Medal Sons From One Cow the Studs Didn’t Want

E611 77,204 to 51,525: The World Dairy Expo Conversation We Need to Have

E610 1.38 vs 0.90: The Calf Number That Predicts Your Worst Heifers

E609 The Best Dairy Business School Isn’t a School — It’s the Judging Ring

E608 Dairy Strength, Not Height: The Proof Rule Hiding in Every Holstein Pedigree

E607 Abby Swan Ships $9,600 a Year Into a Checkoff She’s Now Suing USDA Over

E606 Man-O-Man: The Short-Lived Bull Who Made the Holstein Breed Look Twice

E605 The Calf That Saved the Farm: How a $585 Beef Straw Became American Dairy's Independence Day Bet

E604 The 9.99% Holstein Inbreeding Bill: Are You Breeding for Profit or Just Index Points?

E603 Your 110-Cow Herd Loses $90,000 a Year at $20.70 Milk. Here’s Why You Don’t Quit

E602 Canada vs. USA: The Dairy Border War Where One Side’s Fighting Over a Nickel and the Other’s Ignoring $3 Million

E601 Steve Jaeger’s $511 Fresh Cow Problem – And the Hidden $111‑Per‑Cow Fix 4,495 Cows Just Proved

E600 −$8,776 a Year for Seven Years: The Real Cash-Flow Curve Behind Your Dairy’s Robot Note

E599 They Called Mogul’s Heifers Fat. Then Came the Million Doses.

E598 25 Extra Miles Is Where Your Milk Check Starts Bleeding

E597 A Third of Retail Milk Tested Positive. The Map Said Under 0.1%.

E596 Your Checkoff Costs $36,300 a Year. Now Faust Is Suing Over What It Buys

E595 Kevin Spahn Won a National Title. Coming Home to 180 Cows Is the Harder Game.

E594 17 Genotyped Heifers and Cut Every Tag. The Dairy Network Got Them Back. The DNA Makes Sure They Can’t Disappear Clean.

E593 99.84% of Holstein AI Bulls Trace to Just Two Fathers

E592 CoBank Says the Heifer Rebuild Starts in 2027. Run the Numbers, and It’s a 5.3-Point Crawl, Not a Comeback.

E591 Pennsylvania Promised 50¢ a Cwt. Matt Espenshade Got 13. July 1, That’s Gone.

E590 A $240,000 Warning: What a $5/cwt Gap Really Does to a 400-Cow Dairy

E589 A $241M Verdict Hit a Dairy Co-op Because One Sentence Was Missing

E585 Your Cows Are Comfortable. The Milk Check Doesn’t Know It Yet.

E584 Brookview Tony Charity: A $47,000 Gamble That Outlived Everyone Who Doubted Her

E583 Outlook Dairy Lost 35 of 55 Workers Before Lunch. Then the Cows Lined Up.

E582 H5N1 Is Back in 15 Dairies in 30 Days – and Only 1 in 4 Parlor Workers Wore a Respirator

E581 Falling Semen Sales Aren’t Bad News – They’re Proof You Bred Better

E580 The Proof You Waited Three Years For Averaged a $72 Markdown

E579 Microsoft Got a “Tolerance Decision.” Dutch Dairies Got Closure Orders.

E578 Against All Odds: The Dreamers, Rebels, and Risk-Takers Who Built the Modern Holstein

E577 The Spreadsheet Beats the Pedigree: Why Holstein USA Honored an Economist

E576 Beef-on-Dairy Math: $25,200 Rides on Your Semen Order

E575 A 400-Cow Herd Loses $27,800 a Year to Ketosis – Then Pays Twice for “Rumen-Protected” Additives That Never Reach the Cow

E574 Polled Just Hit 3371 TPI. The Dehorning Iron Is Now a Choice, Not a Necessity.

E573 June Dairy Month Turns 89 — and Farmers Now Keep Just 25¢ of Every Dairy Dollar

E572 Sexation and the Ocean-View Covenant: The Herd That Taught the Holstein World to Trust Cow Families

E571 Oakfield Corners Dairy Lost 17 Genotyped Heifers Overnight. One Tip Brought Them Home

E570 Tinder for Cows: How a Kiwi Sharemilker’s ChatGPT App Is Outbreeding the National Herd