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[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

Hold June's commodity prices flat. Run them through the pre-June formula: $16.99. Run them through the current formula: $15.98. Same milk, same market, two formulas. The reform takes $1.01/cwt straight off the top — before your check is even calculated. https://t.co/GbzKwnHBKn

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

Idle = a $73K–$269K/year hauling hit on a 350-cow herd once DFA reroutes St. Albans milk after Aug 17. Modeled range: +$0.85–$3.15/cwt. Same cows. Smaller check. Have you run it on your own cwt yet?
Full barn math + the 3 calls to make before Aug 17 → https://t.co/Vl0CnTsesn

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

Replacement dairy heifers hit $3,010/head (USDA, July 2025) and pushed past $3,100 by October. So that ~$370 beef-cross premium? In a lot of herds it's just prepaying the $900 hole on the heifer you now have to buy. https://t.co/sCcfKrSEmI

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A $4B dairy just had every U.S. plant knocked offline by ransomware. Canada kept running; the American side stopped cold. Full breakdown 👇 https://t.co/id5Ky58LrI

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Two herds. Same 18% pregnancy rate. One's missing heats, the other's missing pregnancies — and the fix for one is the exact wrong move for the other.

The two-lever split, plus the DairyComp command and PCDART report to run it yourself:: https://t.co/JPQCEGekIP

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

Everyone ran the "10-year win" on the Deere right-to-repair settlement. Nobody ran the barn math: a chopper in limp mode 3 days into your silage window burns ~$2,400 before the tech shows. And a Dec. 31 deadline + one loophole decide if it helps you. https://t.co/Ei6a6ZqXn2

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

The Canada trade fight everyone's yelling about: ~5¢/cwt.
A $1 miss on your breakeven, 400-cow herd: $96,000/yr.
One of these decides if your barn's open in 2030. It's not the nickel.
When did you last run your milk checks at $16? https://t.co/A0qpkDDxb5

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Marc Comtois with Comestar Laurie Sheik VG-88-23*, the living proof, decades before genomics, that cow family beats a flashy card. https://t.co/ThoOXgjgM4

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

70% of consumers say they'll pay more for high-welfare milk. Only 14% trust the label. So the processor prices your "ethical" 2-robot dairy at commodity — and $9.22/cwt of that cheque is unpaid family labour. https://t.co/GmL40lhser

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US dairy farmers get 15.9¢ of every food dollar.
Two Florida farmers built a $40–50K/month milk coffee to grab more of it. The catch, in the founder's words: "negative cash flow for what seems like forever." https://t.co/wVUByMGqsl

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

Cows healthy. Tank full. Every bill paid. And the 70-cow dairy still lost ~$237,000 last year. The cash books and the real books answer two different questions — and the gap is where small commodity dairies quietly bleed equity. https://t.co/pXAMK7IgSZ

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$337M left conventional milk checks in 90 days — no line item, no plaintiff. A June 2025 USDA make-allowance change pulled ~$0.92/cwt off Class III. On a 200-cow herd: ~$56K in 13 months. The fix? No cost-survey data until 2027, relief maybe 2031. https://t.co/JHej5DzGii

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This is the World Dairy Expo Holstein Show. The marquee event, the best cattle on the continent — and look at the seats. Expo has quietly lost one in three of the people who used to come watch, since 2014. https://t.co/9RPQVdqkDF

[The Bullvine @TheBullvine]

1.38 vs 0.90 lb/day. Same barn, same week — the slowest calves on two programs. Your average hides that floor, and the floor is what shows up in the heifer pen two years later. Do you know your bottom-tier ADG? https://t.co/KYtMlnLtry

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Make allowances pulled $337M out of US producer pools in 90 days (AFBF). ~85–92¢/cwt off every hundredweight. And that's the leak you can see. The second one: retailers cashing the provenance premium your co-op ships away in anonymous butter. https://t.co/KO6n31LFPO

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Eight minutes. Four cows she's never seen. No notes. Then she has to stand up and defend her call to someone who knows more than she does. Terrifying at 19 — and worth more than anything she'll do in a lecture hall that semester. → https://t.co/M0mKVemugl

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Blondin Salute Shatter brought $200,000 — not for her VG-87 score, but for 101 oocytes in May, 62 more in June, and a SUPRA family that's been winning for 40 years. https://t.co/OJK5dQ9Fih

👉 [article link + UTM]

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€11.7M was just the fine. The real number is €153,846 — the average claim now owed to each of 7,800 Spanish farmers after their Supreme Court made the milk cartel final and unappealable on June 29. https://t.co/foVrhekyK8

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Holstein heifers hit 9.99% average inbreeding in 2024 — the highest of any major breed. Every 1% of that quietly strips up to $44 per cow in lifetime net income. The bill nobody's tracking 👉 https://t.co/5WeQ8WOWIm

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A federal plan just called cotton — a crop tied to ~17.5% of global insecticide sales — the "natural choice." Real milk is a single-ingredient food and stayed silent, while plant-based holds 13% of retail milk dollars. https://t.co/RjXxFaA5jQ