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Reduced intake explains only ~35% of summer milk loss under heat stress. The rest leaks through the gut: barrier loosens, endotoxin enters the blood, immune system burns >1 kg of glucose in 12 hrs — fuel the udder needed. bit.ly/4fOz9Vc
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58 Years After Roxy: The Queen's Family Just Conquered Hokkaido Again. A five-year-old named Prominence Oham Rocket ET walked into Japan's biggest Black & White ring, and the oldest story in the Holstein breed walked in with her. bit.ly/3Qi3xwH
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H5N1 is back in 15 dairy herds across Idaho and Texas in 30 days. Researchers found it airborne in milking parlors — 21 of 35 air samples positive — yet only 26% of exposed workers wore an N95 (CDC). bit.ly/4fy6P9w
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Agropur posted CA$686.4M EBITDA in fiscal 2025, cut leverage to 1.4x — then announced it's closing its Sussex, NB plant by end-2028. This isn't a co-op in trouble. bit.ly/4egqtEP
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You waited three years for the daughter-proof. On average, it was a $72 pay cut. Virginia Tech, 2,400 genomic-tested Holstein bulls: the proof came in $72 lower in Net Merit than the genomic figure they were sold on. bit.ly/3SukzZb
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Microsoft got a "tolerance decision" to keep building its Dutch data center. The dairy on the same critical-load map got a buyout letter and an EU-wide ban on ever milking again. Same nitrogen law. Two enforcement cultures. bit.ly/3RXMHDW
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Dairy put $1.6B into new KS & TX cheese plants — sitting over the fastest-draining slice of the Ogallala, where up to 70% of irrigation water may be gone inside 20 years. Every 14 ft of decline = 26% more production-loan delinquency. bit.ly/4onfduP
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NFU Dairy Board chair Paul Tompkins: losing £1,500/day at 29p vs a 40p cost. Same year, First Milk's record £20.5m profit; Arla's record €15.1bn revenue. Not a symmetric market. A transfer. Which side of the aligned/exposed line is your milk on? bit.ly/4fq0ehk
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They cut the ID tags off 16 of them — but the tags are exactly what brought them home. A Lockport couple is now charged with burglary, grand larceny, and tampering after 17 calves vanished from Lamb Farms bit.ly/43tE4n1
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May 2026: Class IV $22.32, Class III $16.92. A $5.40/cwt gap — and it's widened five months straight. 🔗👇 Barn math the 10-minute milk-check audit: bit.ly/3S7Nh1X
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First U.S. New World screwworm case since 1966 — confirmed in a Texas calf near La Pryor. The sterile-fly plant built to stop it won't make a fly until late 2027. For dairies, one 200-cow pen on a 19.5-day milk withdrawal = ~293,000 lbs dumped. bit.ly/4flDwa6
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Corey Geiger just won Holstein Association USA's top leadership award for 2026. Earned — no argument here. When the pedigree world starts handing its trophies to the balance-sheet people, that's not a footnote. 👉 bit.ly/4uVDmes
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Most 2,800-cow dairies chase volume. Curtis Vanden Berge chased components — and built a herd hitting 4.17% fat That focus just made him Holstein USA's 2026 Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder. 👉 bit.ly/43awHAY
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FEATURE: "Ocean-View Sexation — The Bull That Couldn't Be Stopped." A pension fund. A virus quarantine. A $2,450 cow. And a sire whose blood still runs through pedigrees on four continents. Read it now 👇 bit.ly/4uMqF5C
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A busted spreadsheet at 10:30 on a Friday night sent a Waikato sharemilker to ChatGPT to find one spelling error. By 2 AM the thing had matched his whole bull team to his cows — work that used to eat five weeks of his life. Full story → bit.ly/4dDqe7H
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A Wisconsin law firm walked USDA into a federal settlement in 11 months. On May 27, attorney Daniel Lennington told Brownfield Ag News the same firm is now preparing a case against the dairy checkoff. bit.ly/4e9CgWr
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Organic Valley's lawsuit is fighting $0.72/cwt. The real per-farm risk modeled at the barn level: $19.89/cwt — $875,160/yr on 200 cows Court speed won't decide your 2027 pay program. Your contract will. bit.ly/4nSmJxm
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10–12 cows out of the tank. Every single day. Then Henry Yoder stopped reaching for the tubes first. Two years later on his 1,100-cow Wisconsin dairy: mastitis treatments down 50–75%, bit.ly/43xBLiO
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🚨 URGENT — CALF THEFT ALERT 🚨 Oakfield Corners Dairy need every set of eyes in the dairy community RIGHT NOW. 17 Holstein heifer calves were stolen from their calf facility on Bliss Road in Oakfield, NY in the early hours of Sunday morning. bit.ly/43tE4n1
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USDA: 2027 Class III = $17.55/cwt. Mexico (10 days later): signs EU deal handing Brussels a 50,000 MT duty-free powder quota protected cheese-name register. 500-cow moderate hit: -$35,588 to -$71,175. Full barn math → bit.ly/4e6CI7O
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