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Dairy Dispatch

  • The CTS Saw 58 Missing Calves Before APHA Reached the Cornwall Gate
    58 calves the database already flagged. Cornwall Council's case file shows the regulator was watching the paperwork before anyone looked at the cattle […]
  • Adam Faust Beat USDA in 11 Months. The Checkoff May Be Next.
    A Wisconsin law firm walked USDA into a settlement in 11 months. Now they're studying the $18,000-a-year checkoff bill on a 500-cow dairy. No complain […]
  • The May 19 EUA Made Screwworm Treatment Legal in the Milking String. It Didn’t Make It Smart.
    FDA cleared Dectomax-CA1 for the milking string on May 19. At 175 miles from the line, three "2" wounds and a $42,000 load say targeted beats reflex. […]
  • Organic Valley’s Lawsuit Is About $0.72. The Risk on Your Farm Is $19.89.
    Four federal filings on April 28. The pool drag in court is $0.72/cwt. On a 200‑cow organic herd, the real spread is $19.89/cwt — $875,160 a year if y […]
  • BREAKING: 17 Genotyped Holstein Heifers Stolen from Oakfield Corners Dairy — Industry-Wide Alert Issued
    UPDATE - The calves are HOME SAFE! We are so grateful to our local community, the ag community and law enforcement for all of the assistance in helpin […]

Top News Posts from Past Week

  • Remembering Jean Jacobs: The Quiet Builder Behind a Holstein Dynasty  Some people chase banners. Jean Jacobs helped build a family, a farm, and a breeding program strong enough that the banners eventually had no choice but to follow. Jean Jacobs…
  • Beef-on-Dairy at 45%? A Screwworm 200 Miles South Just Rewrote Your Calf Math If 45% of your herd is bred to beef and the calf check is worth $4/cwt on margin, a 200-mile screwworm line plus one stalled month of loadouts can stack…
  • Adam Faust Beat USDA in 11 Months. The Checkoff May Be Next. A Wisconsin law firm walked USDA into a settlement in 11 months. Now they're studying the $18,000-a-year checkoff bill on a 500-cow dairy. No complaint filed yet — but the…
  • The 400-Cow Margin Trap: When $14.59 Milk Bleeds $425K in 2026 January 28: a 400-cow Upper Midwest dairy banked $14.59 Class III milk against a $20.89 full-cost breakeven. At $17 milk, that gap bleeds $425,955 a year — and the lender…
  • BREAKING: 17 Genotyped Holstein Heifers Stolen from Oakfield Corners Dairy — Industry-Wide Alert Issued UPDATE - The calves are HOME SAFE! We are so grateful to our local community, the ag community and law enforcement for all of the assistance in helping get our…

Recent Posts

  • The CTS Saw 58 Missing Calves Before APHA Reached the Cornwall Gate
  • Adam Faust Beat USDA in 11 Months. The Checkoff May Be Next.
  • The May 19 EUA Made Screwworm Treatment Legal in the Milking String. It Didn’t Make It Smart.
  • Organic Valley’s Lawsuit Is About $0.72. The Risk on Your Farm Is $19.89.
  • BREAKING: 17 Genotyped Holstein Heifers Stolen from Oakfield Corners Dairy — Industry-Wide Alert Issued

Feature Articles

  • stolen dairy heifersOakfield Corners Dairy Lost 17 Genotyped Heifers Overnight. The Dairy Community Brought Them Home
    Seventeen genotyped Holsteins — $3,500 to $5,000 a head — gone from Lamb Farms' pen overnight. No GPS found them. A fast-movi […]
  • AI cattle breedingTinder for Cows: How a Kiwi Sharemilker’s ChatGPT App Is Outbreeding the National Herd
    A busted spreadsheet, a $30 ChatGPT subscription, and 400 KiwiCross cows later — one Waikato sharemilker's mating reports are […]
  • omega-3 rumen bypassWhen the Methionine Standard Hit the Fat Bin: One Midwest Dairy’s $50,000 Omega‑3 Reckoning
    A 500‑cow freestall realized more than 85% of the EPA and 75% of the DHA on their feed tag were being destroyed in the rumen. […]
  • biofilm mastitis protocolHenry Yoder’s $3,447‑Per‑Cow Mastitis Wake‑Up Call: From 10–12 Cows Out of the Tank to 5–6 on His 1,100‑Cow Wisconsin Dairy
    Henry Yoder had 10–12 cows out of the tank every single day. Same barns, same crew, same seven‑day treatments on repeat. Then […]
  • beef on dairy economicsThe $97,000 Breeding Meeting: How a 500-Cow Dairy Capped Beef at 35%
    The calf buyer wanted more. The spreadsheet said cap it at 35%. ERS forecasts 25.31B lbs of beef in 2027 and heifers near $3, […]

Popular Articles from the Past 30 Days

  • Burt Haugen Came Home From Vietnam in ’68 to Milk Cows. He’s One of the 0.4%. Haugen runs an organic dairy across the highway from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. 9% of U.S. farmers served. Just 0.4% of them milk cows. That gap is roughly 3,700 trained operators…
  • Stud Wars April 2026 — The Empire Strikes Back STgen owns 36% of the proven TPI top 100. Select Sires took 29.5% of the genomic top 200. United Sires — an independent breeder partnership founded in 2024 — grabbed…
  • How Albert Cormier Rewrote the Rules of Global Holstein Business – and Made the Whole Industry Catch Up Summer 2005, Lylehaven Lila Z on the block, gavel falls at $1.15M — first Holstein past seven figures in 20 years. But the real disruption wasn't the price. It was…
  • Maughlin Storm Built the Modern Holstein Cow. He Also Hid a Killer in Her Pedigree. One $4,400 heifer calf in 1987 became the most copied type sire of his generation — and a 1.3kb APOB insertion that reached 17% of Canadian heifers and 4.4% of…
  • Roxy, Dellia and The Mothers Who Built the Breed Roxy, Dellia, Blackrose and seven more didn’t just make famous pedigrees. They built the cow families still showing up in bull books, embryos and your best heifers. R554 Roxy, Dellia…

More Articles

  • Roybrook in 2026: The $15,000 Cull Cheque Behind a Real Cow Family
  • Holstein Canada Has Six Months of Cash. HAUSA Has Twenty. The 2030 Math Isn’t Close.
  • Closed Since 1956: 4 Master Breeder Families and a $54,665 Inbreeding Bill
  • $3,010 Heifers and the $40,000 Calf Program Math You’re Not Running
  • World Dairy Expo Is the Benchmark. These 10 Other Shows Are Worth Your Passport.

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