E650 “I Was Wrong. They Were Better.” – The Glengarry Ayrshires That Beat the World
Glengarry Sir Burton was fifteen years past his last show when his progeny swept the 1953 Royal Winter Fair. Both grand championships. Both reserves. The get of sire. The bull came off a 180-acre farm...
12 Sep 39min
E649 $11,525 Buys One Day Off. $14,263 Is Sitting in Hours Nobody Counts.
Buying relief labor to prevent mastitis wrecks is bad math. You would need to stop 60 clinical cases a year just to break even on $11,525 in milker wages.The Bullvine Podcast dismantles the myth that ...
11 Sep 36min
E648 The 22% Starter Made Better Calves – Not Bigger Ones. Here’s the 3-lb Test.
The study cited to sell 22% calf starter did not produce heavier calves. Empty body weight gains between 18% and 22% starters were identical.On this episode of The Bullvine Podcast, we expose the gap ...
10 Sep 32min
E647 9,860 First-Lactation VGs. Three Stress Tests. One Undisputed Winner.
Raw 87-point daughter counts sell semen, but 9,860 Canadian first-lactations reveal only one sire passed every stress test: Blondin Detective.On The Bullvine Podcast, we evaluate 46 major Holstein sir...
9 Sep 43min
E646 The Biggest Dairies Pay the Highest Wages. Their Labor Costs $1.85/cwt.
Large dairies pay the highest hourly wages in the business, yet their labor runs just $1.85/cwt. On herds under 50 cows, labor hits $13.18.When an I-9 records audit stripped 38 workers from a 6,500-co...
8 Sep 24min
E645 24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn.
Elmer Dawdy and Doug Dunton built 99.84% of modern Holstein sire lines from 24 crooked cows and one Ontario barn. In 1947, a bull calf left a Wisconsin prison herd bound for Kansas on a cashless trade...
6 Sep 46min
E644 Every Tuesday Dann Brady Throws Out Bulls He Likes. One of Them Wasn’t Logic PP
On any given Tuesday morning at Ferme Blondin, Dann Brady has every reason to fall in love with a genomic profile. The numbers flash green, the index looks like an escalator, and the marketing package...
4 Sep 48min
E643 127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs
UBC tracked 1,171 cull cows across 20 herds. The average cow sat 127 days on the culling list before anyone loaded her, losing condition the whole time.When responsibility travels with the milk check,...
3 Sep 33min
