E634 The Colostrum Standard Moved — and 39% of Your "Passed" Calves Are Losing Milk
Ninety percent of calves pass the old colostrum test. Under updated standards, nearly 40% land in Fair or Poor—costing 187 lbs of first-lactation milk.The Bullvine Podcast challenges the outdated 10 g...
18 Aug 24min
E633 DOJ Signals “Ongoing” A.I. Bid-Rigging Probe: The $100M Exposure, the Unnamed Co-Conspirators, and the Safeguard Nobody Requires
A bovine A.I. manager pleaded guilty to rigging cattle auctions, and the DOJ signaled its criminal antitrust probe is just getting started.On The Bullvine Podcast, we break down what court filings est...
17 Aug 31min
E632 One Cow, Seven Bulls, Six Countries: What August 2026’s Proof Run Really Tells You About Your Semen Tank
One sire owns 7 of 10 US GTPI slots and one cow backs 7 bulls across top lists. Buying off the A-list without checking pedigrees is a costly trap.The August 2026 proof run across six countries exposes...
14 Aug 36min
E631 August 2026 USA Proofs: Four Sires Are Driving the Entire Top 10 – Is Your Semen Tank Truly Diversified?
If three or more straws in your current tank trace back to Ripcord, Delux Dominance, or King Doc, you aren’t diversifying—you are buying the same genetics.Every USA Holstein Top 10 in the August 2026 ...
12 Aug 30min
E630 87% Can’t Point to the Agreement. 92% Never Got Paid. October 2 Is the Deadline.
Eighty-seven percent of surveyed producers couldn't say they'd signed a data-sharing agreement. Ninety-two percent have never been paid a cent for the data.Those numbers come from the American Dairy C...
10 Aug 30min
E629 At $3,010 a Heifer, Your Worst Cow Just Got a Reprieve
Five cows on the cull list this morning. Run the retention math at $3,010 a springer, and three of them are worth more in the stall than any heifer you could buy.Replacement heifer inventory just hit ...
6 Aug 22min
E628 The 18,855-Cow Permit and a 92¢ Formula Change Your Lender’s Already Run
Your lender has already run this math. A federal formula change pulled 92¢/cwt out of Class III last June — $88,320 a year on 400 cows, with no line item on the statement.The Bullvine Podcast breaks d...
6 Aug 40min
E627 $4.17 a Straw for Polled. The A2A2 Premium Isn’t Reaching You.
Purdue set the polled semen break-even at $4.17 a straw — $5.70 in 2026 dollars. Check that against tonight's semen invoice.Two traits get sold to you as the future. Only one has a testable number beh...
4 Aug 33min
