{"podcast":{"title":"The Bullvine Daily Brief","slug":"the-bullvine-7024491","podcast_index_feed_id":7024491,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-bullvine/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.thebullvine.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-bullvine/20240922_080924_c7bdb3080b2c19cb0dbbcb0597a7001c.png","author":"The Bullvine","episode_count":621,"summary":"Every article from TheBullvine.com — read aloud so you can keep up with dairy while you're milking, hauling, or driving fence. Daily dispatches on genetics, milk economics, herd management, policy, and the stories the trade press won't touch. No fluff, no PR, no filler — just our journalism in your ears. New articles go live in audio within hours of publication. Subscribe and the day's Bullvine comes with you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T02:17:31.748946+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bullvine-7024491"},"episode":{"title":"E592 CoBank Says the Heifer Rebuild Starts in 2027. Run the Numbers, and It’s a 5.3-Point Crawl, Not a Comeback.","slug":"e592-cobank-says-the-heifer-rebuild-starts-in-2027-run-the-numbers-and-it-s-a-5-3-point-crawl-not-a-comeback","published_at":"2026-06-18T19:46:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bullvine-7024491/e592-cobank-says-the-heifer-rebuild-starts-in-2027-run-the-numbers-and-it-s-a-5-3-point-crawl-not-a-comeback","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bullvine-7024491","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-bullvine/2925916","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/290511/2925916/the-bullvine/2026_06_18_19_45_44_03e655f0-e18a-414e-92e3-38e1828cd47e.mp3","summary":"CoBank says replacements rebuild in 2027 and 2028. Run the numbers — it gives back less than half of what got pulled out, and never clears the danger zone. The Bullvine Podcast breaks down CoBank's new replacement-heifer forecast and finds the rebuild is real but thin: 360,200 head added over 2027 and 2028, just 3.75% of the herd, against 796,000 drained in the prior two years. Replacement values sit above $3,100, with top heifers clearing $3,400 to $4,400 at Minnesota and Wisconsin auctions this spring. Here's what it means for your 2027 breeding sheet. What You'll Learn Why a 360,200-head rebuild barely dents a 909,400-head, 19% inventory slide since 2016 How a snap-back in cull rates erases part of the recovery before it lands Why $251/cwt beef futures keep the replacement pipeline starved The one scenario CoBank didn't model — and why it's the fastest path to a rebuild The 30-day move to make while the cattle market is still calm The beef check now drives margins more than the milk check on many farms — calf and cull sales jumped from 5% of the bottom line to 12 to 15%, some near 20%. As long as beef pays, dairies keep beef-breeding the bottom of the herd and replacements stay tight, especially in processing-growth zones like New York, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Idaho, and the I-29 corridor. If you're budgeting replacements for 2027 and 2028, $2,600 to $2,800 is the optimistic case — not the number to bank on. Full article and sources: https://www.thebullvine.com/farm-economics-management/dairy-heifer-rebuild-cobank-2027/ Subscribe for straight-talking dairy analysis. Share this with a producer who needs it.","meta_description":"CoBank says replacements rebuild in 2027 and 2028. Run the numbers — it gives back less than half of what got pulled out, and never clears the danger zone…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1024,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-bullvine-7024491/episodes/e592-cobank-says-the-heifer-rebuild-starts-in-2027-run-the-numbers-and-it-s-a-5-3-point-crawl-not-a-comeback/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bullvine-7024491/e592-cobank-says-the-heifer-rebuild-starts-in-2027-run-the-numbers-and-it-s-a-5-3-point-crawl-not-a-comeback.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}