
S1E453 - E453 Editor’s Choice 2025: 10 Articles Your Competitors Already Read Twice
Published: December 31, 2025
Duration: 28:21
We published over 300 feature articles in 2025. Ten of them changed how progressive dairy producers approach breeding, investment, and strategic planning. This special year-end episode breaks down the stories readers bookmarked, argued about, and shared with their lenders and genetics reps months after publication—from a $260,000 gamble in 1926 that put one bull's blood in every registered Holstein alive today, to a bankruptcy sale that spawned three consecutive World Dairy Expo champions. If your competitors seem one step ahead on genetic strategy, these are the articles they've already read twice.
Key Takeaways:
Why a $15,000 bull purchase in 1926 (worth $260,000 to...