{"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":"E595  Kevin Spahn Won a National Title. Coming Home to 180 Cows Is the Harder Game.","slug":"e595-kevin-spahn-won-a-national-title-coming-home-to-180-cows-is-the-harder-game","published_at":"2026-06-23T11:25:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bullvine-7024491/e595-kevin-spahn-won-a-national-title-coming-home-to-180-cows-is-the-harder-game","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bullvine-7024491","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-bullvine/2937541","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/290511/2937541/the-bullvine/2026_06_23_11_25_47_0dceb01e-0ef3-451d-8bba-c8e835e9b253.mp3","summary":"A national champion wants to come home to milk 180 cows. The math says he might not get to — and Dane County land at $7,401 an acre is why. Kevin Spahn won a 2025 NCAA Division III football title, then went back to the parlor over winter break. The Bullvine Podcast breaks down the brutal arithmetic facing every farm kid who wants in: 200 acres at $7,401/acre runs $1.48 million, while FSA direct loans cap out far below that — a gap north of $480,000 before a single cow is bought. With milk near $17.50/cwt, the numbers decide who gets to farm. What You'll Learn Why FSA loan caps leave a $480,000-plus hole on a modest land buy How $7,401-an-acre farmland prices lock out the next generation What Wisconsin's herd-count collapse means for who's left Why succession is a structure problem, not a desire problem The 30, 90, and 365-day moves that actually open a path home What a retired NFL lineman's lost family dairy teaches about timing Most succession talk pretends the barrier is willingness. It isn't — it's capital and timing. When a kid who wants to farm, knows the work, and has a dairy science degree still can't make the entry math close, that's the real story behind every empty parlor. This episode hands you the actual numbers and a plan to run against your own county's land prices and milk check before the decision gets made for you. Listen & Connect Full article and sources: https://www.thebullvine.com/people-legacy/kevin-spahn-won-a-national-title-coming-home-to-180-cows-is-the-harder-game/ Subscribe for straight-talking dairy analysis. Share this with a producer who needs it.","meta_description":"A national champion wants to come home to milk 180 cows. The math says he might not get to — and Dane County land at $7,401 an acre is why. Kevin Spahn wo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1450,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-bullvine-7024491/episodes/e595-kevin-spahn-won-a-national-title-coming-home-to-180-cows-is-the-harder-game/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/e595-kevin-spahn-won-a-national-title-coming-home-to-180-cows-is-the-harder-game.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}