
S1E672 - E672 USDA's January Milk Forecast Beat Last Year's Price in 6 of 10 Years
Published: October 19, 2026
Duration: 27:50
The biggest dairies are paying the highest wages in the industry, yet their total labor cost sits at a hyper-efficient $1.85 per hundredweight.
The math behind scale and workforce efficiency proves that higher hourly rates don't automatically mean a higher cost of production. On this episode of The Bullvine Podcast, we examine how the largest operations manage their payroll. Volume dilutes the cost of premium talent when the system is built for it.
• Why the largest operations can afford top-tier farm wages
• The math behind the $1.85/cwt labor cost metric
• How scale dilute...