E626 The $1,300 Gap Between the Bull You Want and the Bull You Should Buy
A 96th-percentile LPI bull can rank 31st for Health and Welfare. Pro$ puts that gap at $1,300 a daughter in lifetime profit. Most producers never look.The Bullvine Podcast runs the barn math on Canada...
31 Jul 20min
E625 The $93,300 Cow Family: Why the Breeding Fight at Your Kitchen Table Is Really a Succession War
That $575 beef-cross calf premium isn't free money. Every beef service on a replacement-eligible cow trades away roughly $585 in future heifer value.The math looks obvious at the calf pen and falls ap...
30 Jul 17min
E624 $20.11 Under Water on Every Hundredweight – Before the Bad Month
USDA puts the cost of making milk in a sub-50-cow herd at $42.71/cwt. Milk sold for $22.60. That's $20.11 underwater before anybody has a bad month.The Bullvine Podcast breaks down why the 40-cow tie-...
29 Jul 21min
E623 Two Barns Run 60 Cows Per Robot. One’s Broke
Two barns run 60 cows per robot. One prints money; one's bled cash for six years. Same headcount, opposite milk cheque — and cows-per-robot never saw it coming.The dealer quotes 66 to 70 cows per box....
24 Jul 24min
E622 Your Oldest Cow Isn’t a Cull — She’s a $3,000 Heifer You Don’t Have to Buy
At $3,010 a replacement heifer — a record — the cow you're about to cull might be the cheapest one in your barn. Here's the math most farms skip.Replacement heifers hit $3,010 a head in July 2025, up ...
23 Jul 18min
E621 $175 Million Expansion, 48% Fewer Exhibitors: Can a Bigger Hall Fix World Dairy Expo’s Trade Floor?
World Dairy Expo's trade floor lost more than 400 companies since 2017 — nearly half its exhibitors — while the cattle show set records. A bigger hall won't fix that.Dane County just cleared the first...
22 Jul 26min
E620 Agri-Mark Printed the Suicide Hotline on the Milk Cheque. The Fix Isn’t Grit — It’s 25 Hours a Week.
A New England co-op printed a suicide hotline on farmers' milk cheques. The data says the real fix isn't tougher farmers — it's 25 fewer hours a week.In 2018, Agri-Mark mailed crisis lines to its 1,00...
21 Jul 35min
E619 Holstein’s 60-Inch Rule: Why Breeders Are Backing It With 53%-vs-21% Math
Stature is 53% heritable. Feet and legs? Just 21%. That single gap explains Holstein's entire new stature penalty — and why working breeders are backing it.Holstein USA made 60 inches the ideal in its...
20 Jul 25min
