S1E453 - E453 Editor’s Choice 2025: 10 Articles Your Competitors Already Read Twice

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...