Dairy News & Insights for Progressive Farmers

RAGER-RED Passes 1 Million Units — and Half of Them Left the Country
Thirteen years old and still shipping. RAGER-RED just cleared a million units — the first Red & White sire in North America to do it — and more th […]
The Ripcord Risk: Correcting the Genetic Blind Spot in Legs
Seven of the ten highest-GTPI bulls in the U.S. share one father. Every one is positive on udders, negative on feet and legs. Feet and legs correlate […]
Wilcor Sale 3: The Night Wilcor and Blondin Partner for Great Success
Seven countries bidding, twelve embryos gone, seventy head sold and not one led back to the barn. The third Welcome to Wilcor Sale turned a 30-cow Ger […]
It’s Not a Vet Shortage. The Profession Is Holding — Dairy’s Slice Isn’t.
The profession isn't shrinking — food-animal practice is. Down 15% in a decade while companion-animal practice grew 22%. Same graduating classes, oppo […]
Fat Carried 71% of the Return — Until Western Canada Repriced Protein on April 1
Same trial. Same +0.287 lb fat, +0.176 lb protein. On index weights, fat carries 71% of the return. On Western Canada's April 1 ratio, protein carries […]

Wilcor Sale 3: The Night Wilcor and Blondin Partner for Great Success Seven countries bidding, twelve embryos gone, seventy head sold and not one led back to the barn. The third Welcome to Wilcor Sale turned a 30-cow German farmyard into the…
“It’s Not All Gravy”: What a DFA Director Told the Boston Globe About Who Carries the Freight After St. Albans 81 jobs gone, one Vermont plant idled since August 17, and about 24 extra miles before hauling starts eating 1% of your gross. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A DFA board member has now…
Stature Predicts Your Feed Bill at 0.63. It Predicts Profit at 0.06. Two decimals, two decades of peer-reviewed data. Stature tracks what your cows eat at 0.52–0.63 and what they earn at 0.06 — and CDCB just priced the spread at 1,682…
Canada’s Cheese Quota Filled 99% in 2024. Your DFO Exchange Filled Zero. Three of four DFO exchanges have been cancelled since May. In May, 1,978 producers bid; eighteen had quota to sell. The tariff fight can't reach your cheque. That can. Executive…
Kansas Milk Growth Slowed to +15.4% While California Shrank Cull thirty percent of four hundred cows and you're buying 120 replacements a year. Every $500 the market moves costs you $60,000 — and not one extra cow in the…

94.3% of Trough Samples Had Coliforms. Your Wellhead Test Won’t Show It
Your last water test was pulled at the wellhead. Researchers swabbed 105 troughs — 94.3% carried coliforms, and biofilm came […]
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 o […]
The Access Fight Is Worth 5¢. Class III Already Took 64¢.
Canada's dairy tariffs land September 8: what the fight is actually worth on your herd — and what already cost you four times […]
Rumination Drops Five Days Early. The Payback Takes Six Years.
Her rumination was down five days before diagnosis. Lying time didn't budge till the day before. Catching 30 transition cases […]
The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down
It's August. Entry deadline's next week, the good heifer's coming along nice — and you're doing the math you never write down […]

Le Supreme Laitier – Holstein Show 2026 GOULDHAVEN ALLIGATOR EZROYAL is Grand Champion of Le Suprême Laitier 2026, exhibited by JM Valley Holstein, London Dairy Farms and Pat Conroy of Amqui. She won the Female 5-Year-Old class, took…
The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down It's August. Entry deadline's next week, the good heifer's coming along nice — and you're doing the math you never write down. $3,800 a cow. Ten days gone. Only $280…
Le Supreme Laitier – Red and White Show 2026 Judge Dominique Fortier (Fortale Holstein, St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska), an 11-year official with credentials from Expo Printemps, the Ontario Fall Show, Western Dairy Showcase, and international assignments in France, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,…
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…
Le Supreme Laitier – Jersey Show 2026 Here's the number that should stop every Jersey breeder in Quebec: five of the six heifer classes were won by daughters of bulls bred at Ferme Dulet in Saint-Pascal. Dulet…