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is creeping over fields of green. Remembering

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the faces, the moments unseen. The hands that

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built a dynasty, the vision in their eyes. Echoes

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in the auction bar, beneath an endless sky. This

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is the bull by turn the bar. Welcome back to

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the Bull Vine Podcast. Today we're sharing a

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story that really just stopped us in our tracks.

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We talk a lot about the million dollar cows,

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you know, the glitz of the colored shavings,

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the genomic giants that seem to just arrive fully

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formed. Right. But the story we found in the

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archives this week, it isn't about high prices

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at all. It's about a transaction that happened

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for Well, for pocket change. You know, this is

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the kind of conversation that reminds you why

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you even got into dairy in the first place. Yeah.

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It's not just about the numbers or the ribbons.

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It's about the intuition, the gamble, and that

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gut feeling you get when you look at an animal

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and you see something that nobody else does.

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We are diving deep into the legend of Snow Boots

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Wince Milky Way. Now, if you're a student of

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the breed, that name is just its royalty. Oh,

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absolutely. But even if you know the name. The

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details of how she started are genuinely hard

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to believe. It's a wild ride. I mean, we're talking

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about a cow that essentially started her life

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in a gunny sack on a wheat farm. A literal gunny

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sack. Yeah. And she ended up, I mean, she ended

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up changing the entire genetic map of the Holstein

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breed forever. So let's set the scene. I really

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want you to picture this vividly. It's the 1950s.

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We're on a back road in Kansas. It's dusty, it's

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hot, just the typical Kansas summer. And there's

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an old sedan driving down this washboard road.

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You can just imagine the suspension creaking.

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And in the back seat, there is a literal burlap

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gunny sack. And for anyone listening who hasn't

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been around a farm for 50 years, a gunny sack

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is, it's scratchy, it smells like grain dust,

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and it is definitely not designed for livestock

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transport. Not at all. And inside that sack,

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a calf. A living, breathing heifer calf. A calf

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that costs $75. $75. I look this up. Even adjusted

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for inflation. We're not talking about a fortune

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here. Not even close. But in today's money, $75

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might get you a couple of bags of high -end mineral

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if you're lucky. Or maybe half a ton of hay,

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if that. Right. Honestly, $75 today is a coal

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calf. It's a get this animal off my feed bill

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kind of price. Yeah, exactly. But here's this

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calf stuffed in a bag. bouncing around the backseat

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of a sedan. And the crazy part is, this calf,

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this little creature, would eventually score

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EX97. EX97. That's a score that is. It's almost

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a myth. It's rarefied error. We really need to

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pause on that number later because you just...

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You just don't see it. You really don't. But

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the contrast is what gets me. I mean, you're

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the farmer here. What happens to most $75 calves?

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Well, let's be real. If I go to the sale barn

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today and I buy the cheapest calf in the ring,

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what is her future? Most $75 calves, especially

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back then, they end up as beef. Yeah. Or best

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case scenario, they get forgotten in a commercial

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herd somewhere, milk for maybe two lactations,

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and then leave with zero fanfare. Right. They

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certainly do not become the mother of a bull

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that sires 100 gold metal dams. That just doesn't

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happen. It's a statistical impossibility almost.

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But that's why this is the ultimate Cinderella

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story of the dairy world. But it's not just a

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fairy tale, is it? It's actually a master class

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on value. It really is. It's a lesson on what

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actually makes a cow valuable. You know, we get

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so caught up in the marketing and the show wins.

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And don't get me wrong, Snowboots became a marketing

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icon. But her real value was her ability to pay

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the bills. She built a dynasty. She was the invisible

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profit maker long before she became the visible

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superstar. So let's go back to the very, very

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beginning, the origin story. We are in Abilene,

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Kansas, the breeder. He wasn't exactly a big

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time dairy mogul with a glossy catalog. No, not

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at all. He was a wheat farmer. And that's a crucial

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distinction. Why is that so important? Because

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his main gig was wheat. His livelihood depended

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on the harvest, not the milk check. He had a

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few registered Holsteins on the side. So he wasn't

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looking at these cows with the same, you know,

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high -stakes eye that a professional breeder

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would. He was looking at them practically. Does

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she milk? Is she trouble? And the dam of our

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protagonist, a cow named Milky Way Judy Triune.

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Looking at the records, she was actually a really

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good cow, wasn't she? Oh, she was excellent phenotypically,

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scored EX -92. She was sired by the most popular

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bull in the Kansas stud at the time. Great, utter

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texture, great potential, but she had a fatal

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flaw. And this is where the biology meets the

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labor reality of a farm. Extremely short teats.

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The bane of a dairyman's existence, especially

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in the 1950s. The source material says she calved

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on Christmas day. And because those teats were

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so short, she had to be hand milked. Can you

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just imagine that? It's Christmas morning, the

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kids are inside opening presents, there's probably

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cinnamon rolls in the oven, and you are out in

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the freezing cold barn, hand milking a fresh

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heifer, because the machine cups literally will

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not stay on. What a nightmare. That is a headache.

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That is the kind of cow that, despite looking

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good, despite that EX92 score, makes you just

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want to sell her. So the triune bloodline is

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a common trait, the short teats. It was known

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for high components and really strong attachments,

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but... Yeah, short teats for kind of the trade

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-off. It's always a trade -off in genetics, right?

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Yeah. You get that beautiful, shallow, utter,

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but sometimes you lose the teat length. And for

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wheat farmer who just wants to get the chores

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done, that's a deal breaker. And that's exactly

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where the deal happens. Enter Jack Sexton of

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Jaisal Farm. Right. He visits the farm with his

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friend Ed Reed. They see this cow, the one with

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the short teats, and she's tagged at $250. Which

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was a decent price for a good cow back then.

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It wasn't a steal. That was market value for

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a cow you knew you had to struggle with. But

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Jack sees something else. He sees the calf at

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her side. A two -month -old heifer. And this

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is where that cow sense comes in. We talk about

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genomes today, right? We look at a DNA printout

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to tell us if a calf is good. Jack Sexton didn't

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have that. He had his eyes. And he looks at this

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calf and he sees what he called a long -necked

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heifer. When you say long -necked break that

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down for us. Is that just an aesthetic thing?

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No, it's a huge indicator of dairy character

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a long clean neck Usually correlates with the

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cow that's going to convert feed into milk instead

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of fat. It suggests angularity sharpness openness

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of rib He saw a calf that just looked clean.

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Okay. He saw the influence of that triune breeding

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the strength Yeah, but maybe packaged a little

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better than the mock. It's that intuition You

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know, you see a calf and you don't quite know

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why but her hair coat shines a little different

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She holds her head a little higher. You just

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know she's special but the obstacle wasn't the

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price. It was the owner The boy who owned the

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calf, the wheat farmer's son, he didn't want

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to sell. He wanted her for a 4 -H project. Right.

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So Jack does what any savvy cattleman does. He

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uses the practical argument. He looks at the

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boy and he says, look kid, her mom has short

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teats. You know how hard she is to milk. He went

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right for the weak spot. He did. He said, this

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calf is probably going to have short teats too.

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You don't want that trouble for your project.

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You should sell. It's the oldest trick in the

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book. Focusing on the flaw to get the deal. It's...

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borderline predatory, but also kind of practical

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advice. It's negotiation 101. And honestly, it

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was a fair warning. Genetics are heritable. There

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was a very high chance she would have short teats.

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Jack was taking that risk. The boy wasn't. So

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they struck a deal. Three hundred and twenty

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five dollars for the pair. Two hundred and fifty

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for the cow and seventy five dollars for the

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calf. Seventy five bucks. Yeah. It is just incredible

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to think about the return on investment on that

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$75. It might be the highest ROI in the history

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of the entire breed. But the boy had one condition.

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He said, you can have her, but you have to name

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her Snow Boots. I love that. It's such a kid

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thing to do, isn't it? She had white feet, presumably,

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but Snow Boots. It's not a sophisticated name

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like Milky Way or Triune. It's a pet name. And

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Jack agreed. So the deal is done. Jack takes

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the $75 calf, puts her in the gunny sack to keep

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the car clean. Because you do not want manure

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in your nice tent. Yeah, you do not. And he drives

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her home to Giselle Farm. No fanfare, just a

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sack on a back road. You know, I think it's important

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to just pause here and reflect on the reality

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of buying cattle. Jack bought a problem, the

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short teats on the dam, to get a potential diamond

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in the rough. Right. That's a gamble every farmer

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makes. You weigh the headache against the potential.

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And in this case, that intuition to spot the

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long -necked calf that others might have missed,

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that's the difference between an average herd

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and a legendary one. Most people would have walked

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away because of the dam's milking speed. Jack

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walked toward the potential. But here's the thing.

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It wasn't an instant success story. Snowboots

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didn't just hop out of that sack and start winning

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championships. Oh, not at all. This wasn't a

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movie montage where she wins the county fair

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the next day. Far from it. And this is the part

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of the story I respect the most. The grind. The

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source says her first show at a local district

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level, she placed 21st. 21st. Out of 22. Wow.

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That is humbling. That is a kick in the teeth.

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You know, you buy this calf, you think you see

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something special, you drag her all the way to

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the show, clip her up, and the judge basically

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puts her at the bottom of the class. Essentially

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says, thanks for coming, try again next year.

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It really emphasizes the humility of the beginning.

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Why? From 21st place to a national legend, it

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took time. She spent seven and a half years at

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Giselle Farm. That's a long time. It is. Seven

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years of milking twice a day. Every single day.

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And doing her job is the key phrase there. Absolutely.

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In those seven years, she wasn't a cover girl.

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She was a working cow. She calved, she bred back,

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she raised useful offspring. She wasn't the flashy

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superstar yet. She was just a good, solid cow

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in a working herd. So what changes in a cow between

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age two and age seven? I mean, why did she go

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from 21st place to eventually being a champion?

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Well... Holsteins, especially those old bloodlines

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like the triunes and the Ormsby's, they were

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slow maturers. They needed time to drop their

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rib to widen out. Today, we breed for such early

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maturity heifers that look like cows at 12 months.

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Back then, a cow -like Snow Boots was like a

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fine wine. She just kept adding depth and strength

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with every lactation. She had to grow into her

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frame. It takes real patience to hold a cow like

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that. Most guys would have called that 21st place

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heifer. Jack kept her. But then the turning point

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comes and it comes in the form of a man named

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Dick Brooks from pack Lamar farm now Dick Brooks

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is a character We really need to unpack. This

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isn't just another farmer. This is a guy with

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a history of Trading draft horses and milking

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cows in Ohio. He had this deep almost rugged

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background in animal husbandry You know muscle

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he knew bone and then he moves West Colorado

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and partners with an oil man in the all bidness,

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as they say. Yeah, the 1960s were a wild time

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for tax structures in agriculture, weren't they?

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They were. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. This was the

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era where wealthy industrialists, oilmen, bankers,

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were pouring money into purebred cattle for tax

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write -offs and prestige. It fueled a massive

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acceleration in genetics. So you have this partnership

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pack Lamar farm. It wasn't just a barn. It was

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an empire, a 12 ,240 acre facility, steel frame

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buildings. This was big business dairy before

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that was really the norm. Yeah. So Brooks has

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the backing of oil money, but he wasn't just

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a checkbook. He was a philosopher breeder. He

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absolutely was. He wasn't just buying the most

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expensive cows. He was buying specific pieces

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of a puzzle he was building in his head. He loved

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Ormsby blood and triune genetics. He was obsessed

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with line breeding, stacking those genetic traits

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to create a uniform herd. He wasn't just buying

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cows, he was building a masterpiece. So in 1961,

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Brooks is at a regional show in Abilene. Snow

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Boots is older now. She's matured. She's finally

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filled out that frame. And Brooks sees her. He

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sees that potential. He sees the triune breeding.

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He loves the strength, the width, and he makes

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an offer. $2 ,500 plus a bull. Okay. Let's do

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the math again. Jack bought the pair for $325.

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He's now selling the cow alone for $2 ,500 plus

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a valuable bull. Massive return. It's a massive

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return. But this is where the story gets really

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emotional for me. The source mentions that Jack

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Sexton had a sleepless night after he got that

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offer. So I have to stop you there. $2 ,500 in

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1961 is the equivalent of a brand new car. Easily.

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Jack Sexton is a wheat farmer. Are we really

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saying he lost sleep just because he loved the

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cow? Or was he terrified he was selling a lottery

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ticket way too early? That's the eternal question

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for a breeder, isn't it? Yeah. And I think it's

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probably both. I don't think it was just about

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the money. I think it was the realization of

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what he had. He had watched her grow from that

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little calf in the sack into this magnificent

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animal. He knew she was special, but he also

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knew his own limitations. He knew that Josel

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Farm, while a great place, it wasn't Paklamor.

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He couldn't give her the national stage. He didn't

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have the marketing machine or the professional

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show string. So it was. It was an act of love

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to let her go, but also a very savvy business

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decision to cash in. It really was. It's that

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bittersweet moment every breeder faces. Do I

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keep this incredible animal for myself just to

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look at her every day and know she's mine? Or

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do I let her go to a place where she can prove

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herself to the whole world? Jack realized Paclimar

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could give her an opportunity he couldn't. And

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getting a herd sire in return, that definitely

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sweetened the deal. So he sells her. Snow Boots

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leaves Kansas and heads to the high plains of

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Colorado. And this is where the journey just

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really accelerates. Life at Paclimar was different.

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This was the big leagues. We're talking about

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a facility where cows were treated like queens,

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but they were expected to perform like athletes.

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And when Snow Boots walked into that barn, She

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wasn't the only star. She walked into a barn

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that housed Harborcrest Rose Millie. The Millie

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cow. We have to talk about Millie. The queen.

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Millie was the flashy show cow. All -American.

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She was the one everyone talked about. The celebrity.

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She was refined, elegant, the supermodel of the

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breed. And Snow... Snowboots was the barn favorite.

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The crew loved her. She had a great disposition.

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She wasn't high -strung or difficult. She was

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the one you wanted to work with every day. I

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love that contrast. Millie is the diva who needs

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the special attention, and Snow Boots is the

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colleague you want to go have a beer with after

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work. Exactly. But don't let that barn favorite

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title fool you. Yeah. Snow Boots was an absolute

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grinder. Her stats at Paclimar are mind -blowing,

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especially for the 1960s. Let's talk about those

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numbers, because I think modern listeners might

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just glaze over them if we don't put them in

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context. She produced over 200 ,000 pounds of

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lifetime milk. Wow. Okay, let's break that down.

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200 ,000 pounds today in a modern freestyle barn

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with TMR mixers, robotics, heat abatement, sand

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banning, all of it. 200 ,000 pounds is a great

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achievement. Right. But in the 1960s, they were

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feeding dry hay, maybe some green chop and grain

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in the parlor. No computer balancing the ration

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every hour. To hit 200 ,000 pounds in that environment

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is just pure grit. It's biological efficiency

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at its finest. She had records of 24 ,000 pounds

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of milk in a single lactation. That was massive

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for that era. That's like a baseball player hitting

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60 home runs before the steroid era. It's just

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natural ability. And her fertility. This is something

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we struggle with so immensely in the breed today.

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It is the number one profit killer on dairies

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today. Cows that won't breed back. Snow boots

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calved in September, six years in a row. Like

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clockwork. Like a Swiss watch. That means she

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had a perfect 12 -month calving interval. She

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would calve, peek and milk, get bread on the

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first or second service and do it all over again.

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That is the Holy Grail. A cow that milks heavy

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and breeds back instantly. That's where the profit

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is. Every month a cow is open past her voluntary

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waiting period. It costs the farmer money. Snow

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boots never cost them a dime. So she's working

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hard at home, but she's also finally getting

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her moment in the spotlight. The peak moment

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comes at Waterloo in 1962. the National Dairy

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Cattle Congress. That was the Super Bowl of dairy

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shows at the time. Yeah. You know, Madison wasn't

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the behemoth it is now. Waterloo was the place.

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And in the aged cow class, Snowboots and Millie

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are both in the ring. Can you just imagine the

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tension? You have two cows from the same farm,

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owned by the same man, competing for the top

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spot. It's like having two heavyweights from

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the same gym fighting for the world title. And

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the result. Snowboots takes first. Millie takes

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second and then for the championship grand champion

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goes to snow boots. Yeah reserve grand goes to

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Millie that is That's historic. It was the first

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time in history that one farm took both grand

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and reserve females at the national show It was

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a complete domination by Paklamar. It proved

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that Dick Brooks wasn't just some eccentric with

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oil money. He was a genius He had assembled the

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two best cows in the world. I love the detail

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in the source about the classification score,

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too She eventually scored ex 97 ex 97 and the

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source describes the silence in the barn when

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the classifier announced that score It's a reference.

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You have to understand, classification is subjective.

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But EX97 is basically saying, God could not have

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made this cow any better. When a classifier gives

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that score, everyone just stops. It's almost

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a spiritual moment for a cattleman. It validates

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everything Jack Sexton saw in that gunny sack.

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It validates everything Dick Brooks saw at that

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regional show. She was, for all intents and purchases,

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Perfect. So she has achieved perfection in the

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ring. She's a production machine in the barn.

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But Dick Brooks wasn't done. He wanted to secure

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her legacy. And this leads us to the breakthrough,

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the genetic gamble. This is my favorite part

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of the story because it shows the difference

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between a multiplier, someone who just breeds

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good cows to good bulls, and a true breeder.

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Brooks wanted a herd sire out of snow boots.

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He wanted to bottle that magic. But he had a

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very specific vision, right? He didn't just want

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the popular bull of the day. No. He wanted that

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triune blood. Remember, that's the Kansas genetics

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she came from. The strength, the width. But by

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the early 60s, all the proven bowls with that

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bloodline were dead or gone. Frozen semen wasn't

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widely available from those old bowls yet. He

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was stuck. So he couldn't just open a catalog

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and pick a proven winner with high reliability

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like we do today? No way. He had to take a risk.

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A massive risk. He chose a bowl named Skyway

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Vala Vista Double. And Double was? Unproven.

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Completely unproven. He was a two -year -old

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bull. He had zero daughters and milk. No data.

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No proof. Nothing. Let's just pause on that.

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He took one of the two best cows in the entire

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world, an EX -97 Grand Champion, and bred her

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to a bull that nobody knew anything about, performance

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-wise. It sounds completely insane by modern

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standards. Today, we look at genomic numbers.

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We look at reliability. If a bull doesn't have

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data, most top breeders won't touch him for a

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contract mating. But Brooks used gut instinct.

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and pedigree knowledge. What did he see in that

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unproven bull? He knew the bloodlines. He knew

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the bull's family, the Ike family. He knew that

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lion produced flat bones, which means quality

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in the leg structure, and high wide rear udders.

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He was trying to correct specific things. He

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wasn't just breeding for numbers. He was breeding

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for type. He trusted his eye over the data that

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he didn't have. He was basically betting the

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farm on his understanding of anatomy. It was

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a gamble on biology, not statistics. Exactly.

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And the result of that gamble was born on September

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22, 1963. A bull calf named Paklamar Bootmaker.

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Bootmaker. A name that just echoes through history.

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If you look at pedigrees today, you still see

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his influence everywhere. But at the time, he

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was just another calf. And the drama continues.

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In 1967, Paklamar has a dispersal sale. But it

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wasn't a normal sale. Brooks used a pairing strategy.

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This is just brilliant. This is where the business

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acumen really comes in. He wanted to sell cattle,

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but keep his best genetics. So he paired animals.

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The highest bidder got to pick one animal from

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the pair, and Brooks got to keep the other. It's

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like a draft. So he pairs Millie the All -American,

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the queen, with bootmaker, the young bull, out

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of snow boots. Think about those stakes. He's

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risking losing his foundation cow or his future

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herd sire. He's forcing the buyers to decide

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what is worth more, the proven past, which is

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Millie, or the potential future, which is Bootmaker.

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The bidding goes all the way up to $80 ,000.

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Which is a fortune in 1967. We're talking half

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a million dollars or more in today's buying power.

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A syndicate wins the bid, and they have to choose.

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Do they take the proven show cow, Millie, or

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do they take the young bull, Bootmaker? They

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took the bull. Bootmaker. And Brooks got to keep

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Millie. It was exactly what he wanted. He kept

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the cow he loved, and the bull went off to an

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A .I. stud to become a legend. He engineered

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that sale perfectly. It's like high -stakes poker,

00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:53.359
but with cattle. It really is. But it shows how

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much faith the industry was starting to have

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in that snow boots line. They picked her son

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over the all -American Millie. That says everything.

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So, Bootmaker goes out into the world. Let's

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talk about the ripple effect. Because initially

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it wasn't a slam dunk, was it? No. The early

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Bootmaker daughters. They were plain. They scared

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the experts. They didn't look like show winners

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as heifers. They were shallow, maybe a little

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gangly. That must have been terrifying for the

00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.059
syndicate that just paid $80 ,000. Oh, I'm sure

00:22:20.059 --> 00:22:22.099
there was some serious buyer's remorse early

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on. I'm sure there were some angry phone calls.

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But then they matured. And that's that snow boot

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streak coming through again. Just like snow boots

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needed seven years to reach her peak, the bootmaker

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daughters got better with age. They dropped their

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ribs, they widened out, they started milking

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like fire hoses. And the stat that defines bootmaker...

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He became the first bull in history to sire 100

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gold medal dams. Explain gold medal dam for the

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listeners who might not know the criteria. The

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gold medal dam isn't just a pretty cow. To on

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that... A cow has to meet really strict criteria

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for both production high milk, fat, and protein

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in classification score. And she has to produce

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offspring that do the same. It's a measure of

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transmitting ability. For a bull to sire a hundred

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of them, it means he wasn't just siring pretty

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cows. He was siring cows that worked hard, looked

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good, and passed it on. He was making brood cows,

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practical cows that lasted. And while her son

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was conquering the world, Snowboot's own story

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came to a very quiet end. It did. The source

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describes it beautifully. You know, she wasn't

00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:31.759
sent to slaughter. She wasn't put down because

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she couldn't get up. She was just found dead

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in her box stall at Paklamar. Her head was resting

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on her side like she was just asleep. She was

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14 years old. And she was pregnant with her 11th

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calf. That just speaks to her vitality right

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to the very end. Absolutely. She didn't fade

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away. She didn't break down. She just stopped.

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Her heart just gave out. Dick Brooks gave a eulogy

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for her. He said, the cow you can breed to anything,

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everyone's favorite. And that's the highest praise

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a breeder can give. The cow you could breed to

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anything. It means she was so genetically dominant,

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so structurally correct that she fixed the flaws

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of any bull you used on her. You didn't have

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to protect her. She did the work. So connecting

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this to the modern day. We're sitting here in

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2026. The industry has changed so much. We have

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genomics, we have sex semen, we have IVF. Why

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does the story of snow boots still matter to

00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:22.220
the farmer listening right now? It matters because

00:24:22.220 --> 00:24:24.279
the industry is struggling with the exact things

00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:27.140
snow boots excelled at, fertility and longevity.

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We've spent 40 years breeding for extreme angularity

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and milk speed, and we lost some of that toughness.

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We have cows that milk like crazy, but burn out

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after two lactations. We have heifers that are

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hard to get bred. Snow boots is the blueprint

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we are trying to get back to. She's the proof

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that you don't have to sacrifice production for

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durability. Exactly, and her descendants prove

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it too. Bulls like astronauts, starbuck, Rudolph,

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these are giants of the breed. They all trace

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back to the decisions made around this one cow.

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When you see a cow today that has that perfect

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blend of strength and dairiness, that will to

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live and will to work, there's a good chance

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you're seeing a little bit of snow boots coming

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through. She put the strength back into the Holstein

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breed when it was getting too frail. It's just

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amazing to think that a decision made on a wheat

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farm in Kansas to put a $75 calf in a gunny sack

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because her mom had short teats is still affecting

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the milk that's in our fridge today. It's the

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butterfly effect, or I guess the snow boots effect.

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It's a reminder that genetics is a long game.

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Decisions you make today can ripple out for 50

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years. All right, let's wrap this up with our

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takeaways. Someone's listening to this on their

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tractor right now. Maybe they're looking at a

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pen of their own calves. What is the one thing

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from this story they should sit with? I think

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it's the definition of a brood cow versus a show

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cow. We all love the ribbons. We all love the

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flashy win at Madison, but ribbons fade. They

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gather dust on the mantle. Right. A true brood

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cow, a cow like snow boots. She breeds back.

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She milks 200 ,000 pounds. She passes those traits

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on. That is what builds a farm. That is what

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pays the mortgage. at the end of the day. And

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maybe, just maybe, keep an eye out for the ugly

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duckling. Absolutely. Don't overlook the gunny

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sack calves. Sometimes the rough start or the

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calf that looks a little different holds the

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best genetics. Trust your eye. Trust your intuition.

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And value that old -fashioned durability. In

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a high -speed genomic world, a cow that lasts

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for 14 years is worth her weight in gold. That's

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a powerful thought. the invisible profit maker

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might be standing right in front of you, disguised

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in a $75 package. She just might be. That's another

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story from the Bull Vine podcast. These are the

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people and the cows building the future of dairy.

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And if you want to see pictures of snow boots,

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and you really should, just to see that depth

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of rib we talked about, head over to www .thebullvine

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.com. Find more at www .thebullvine .com. Next

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farm on a red cow when black and white was the

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the quiet strength they knew Hear their stories

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now, coming right on through Oh, tell the tale,

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