E659 Five Roads to Madison: The Cows, Families and Decisions Behind Five Elite Programs
It’s the phone call every dairy farmer dreads, usually coming in the dead of night. A prized cow is down. For Tom and Kelli Cull, that agonizing moment arrived when one of the most valuable show cows ...
24 Sep 38min
E658 Lactanet Gave Murray Hunt Its Distinction Award. He Gave the Room a 3,500-Herd Problem
Imagine standing in front of the most powerful people in Canadian dairy. They’ve just handed you a lifetime achievement award for building the very foundations of the industry's genetic evaluation sys...
23 Sep 43min
E657 World Dairy Expo 2026 Holstein Show Preview: 11th Place Is Now The Favorite
Five of nine Madison divisional champions vanished for eleven months while an 11th-place heifer took over the continent.Ryan Krohlow holds the microphone to judge an International Holstein Show where ...
21 Sep 43min
E656 They Mortgaged Three Wisconsin Farms to Build World Dairy Expo. Four Years Later It Was Nearly Bankrupt.
Norm Magnussen, Allen Hetts, and Gene Nelson put their farms behind a $100,000 bank note in 1967 so dairy cattle had a stage. With Howard Voegeli securing state backing, four Wisconsin breeders risked...
19 Sep 29min
E655 Three Feed Inputs Set the DMC Margin. Diesel Isn’t One, and It Rose 65%.
USDA's DMC margin rose $3.07 through June, but on-highway diesel surged 65%. The statutory formula cannot see your fuel bill.On this episode of The Bullvine Podcast, we break down why a modeled 500-co...
18 Sep 28min
E654 Iowa’s Manure Penalty Never Left $5,000. The Restitution Ran 6.7 Times Higher.
An Ohio dairy manager drew a federal conviction and a $25,000 fine over 789 fish. An LLC will not shield your staff from personal criminal liability.The Bullvine Podcast dismantles the myth that state...
17 Sep 25min
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
Large dairies pay the highest hourly wages in agriculture, yet their labor expense drops to $1.85/cwt while herds under 50 cows bleed $13.18/cwt.ERS data reveals a stark economic reality: operations w...
16 Sep 28min
E652 USDA Raised Make Allowances Up to 42.6% on Self-Reported Processor Costs
USDA added up to 7.15 cents per pound to processor make allowances on self-reported data. On 500 cows, that pulls up to $105,800 out of your pocket every year.The Bullvine Podcast breaks down the June...
15 Sep 28min
