S1E460 - E460 Harborcrest Rose Milly: From Pig Money to Holstein Royalty

It's 1954, and a young Ohio farmer named John Snoddy walks out of an auction barn with a gangly, too-leggy heifer that cost him $375—every cent he made selling market hogs that fall. His neighbors laugh. His wife hopes they haven't wasted the pig money. The heifer doesn't look like much of anything.

Seven years later, a man named Dick Brooks sees that heifer's daughter walking over a hillside in West Salem, Ohio, and refuses to leave until she's his. Fifteen years after that, her genetics are flowing into virtually every Holstein herd in North America through a bu...