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Dairy Dispatch

  • Modesto Junior College Sweeps International Post-Secondary Dairy Judging Contest
    Team title, high individual, reasons team, high reasons individual. The Pirates took all four, and every one of their counting judges finished in the […]
  • Four-Peat: Minnesota Wins Fourth Straight National Intercollegiate Judging Title as Harbaugh Takes High Individual by One Point
    The Gophers' dynasty rolls on. Their top individual won by the smallest margin possible. Four in a row. Jacob Harbaugh, Rachel Visser, Evan Hathaway a […]
  • California Wins 104th National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest as Wisconsin’s Braeden Bechel Sweeps Individual Honors
    The Golden State took the team banner by 17 points. Bechel took everything else that wasn't nailed down. California's national championship team of Ke […]
  • Brandel Claims Supreme Showman as Wisconsin Takes Over the Colored Shavings at World Dairy Expo
    339 youth. Three divisions. And one Lake Mills teenager who walked out $5,000 richer. The Annette Ostrom Memorial Supreme Showman awards were presente […]
  • Suton Paulson Climbs From Third to Overall Fitter at 2026 World Dairy Expo
    He was third in 2025. This year Suton Paulson won the Michael Heath Overall Fitter Award and ended Pennsylvania's two-year hold on it. Seven of the 20 […]

Top Dispatch Posts from Past Week

  • Comestar at 50: Four Millionaire Sires, Two Cows of the Year and One Quota Bet Marc Comtois bought an 18-cow farm at 18. Fifty years later, one Comestar cow family has put at least 4.5 million doses into the world, and a 2003 border closure…
  • A 200-Cow Dairy Can Afford $268,683 in H-2A Costs and Still Be Denied Replacing half a crew costs $268,683 under current Virginia wage floors. But as the June 17 USCIS memo proves, clearing the financial hurdle doesn't mean you clear the regulatory one.…
  • Stop Benchmarking Against Order 30’s Biggest Dairies: Protein Hit Nearly Double Fat in August 560 farms ship 63.61% of Order 30's milk, so the order average is mostly theirs. At 2025 prices, their test edge on the typical farm is worth $221 to $265…
  • Dairy Drone Accuracy: UW–Madison Clocked 83% on the Herd, 70% on Which Calf Three in ten IDs point at the wrong calf. Across a 200-calf hutch row, that's about 60 records tied to the wrong hutch, and the headline accuracy number won't show…
  • California’s Water Board Drew a Herd Line. The Next Cow Has to Carry Its Own  Sept. 15 set your existing herd. Add 100 cows now, and their manure must clear 1.4 A/R before they arrive: 35 to 64 acres, or a hauler who beats $0.87…

Feature Articles

  • International Jersey Show – World Dairy Expo 2026
    Live results, class photos, judge's reasons, championship coverage, and complete placings from Madison, Wisconsin. For two mo […]
  • International Junior Holstein Show – World Dairy Expo 2026
    Faultless: Arolene Dempsey Ella Takes Grand at the 2026 International Junior Holstein Show Alyson Doiron led her own cow on t […]
  • World Dairy Expo honoreesA Mentor, Six Names and a Board: What Three 2026 Expo Honors Actually Have in Common
    A 56-year chain of mentors, a 10,000-cow philosophy, and the boy who couldn't read the Holstein Journal. Inside the legacies […]
  • World Dairy Expo breedersFive Roads to Madison: The Cows, Families and Decisions Behind Five Elite Programs
    Blondin used partnerships. Jacobs made its prefix travel. Pierre Boulet trusted the cow before the catalog. Kueffner and Pack […]
  • Lactanet Gave Murray Hunt Its Distinction Award. He Gave the Room a 3,500-Herd Problem
    In 1970, Canada had 90,000 dairy herds. By August 2025, there were 9,048. By 2035, there may be just 3,500. Upon receiving La […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • World Dairy Expo 2026 Holstein Show Preview: 11th Place Is Now The Favorite Butlerview Glitter Girl stood 11th in a 61-head calf class in this Coliseum last October. Ten heifers beat her. Two of them have since lost to her in Madison. E657…
  • 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 The National Dairy Cattle Congress owned October from 1910 to 1965. Then it dropped "Dairy" from its own name and bet the building on a greyhound track. This month its…
  • International Junior Holstein Show – World Dairy Expo 2026 Faultless: Arolene Dempsey Ella Takes Grand at the 2026 International Junior Holstein Show Alyson Doiron led her own cow on the colored shavings for the first time and left with…
  • One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History At the 1989 World Dairy Expo, three Senior Two-Year-Olds came back into the Madison ring after milking. The ribbons settled one afternoon. The consequences are still turning up in pedigrees…
  • 24 Cows Built Half the Holstein Breed. The Other Half Came from One Ontario Barn. Twenty-four cows nobody else wanted from Kansas. One stubborn Ontario dairyman who used an outcross bull exactly once. Between them: 99.84% of every A.I. sire in your barn tonight. E645…

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