What if the biggest hidden cost on your dairy isn’t feed, labor, or genetics, but the pain of not changing?

In this episode of Ruminate This, Scott Zehr and co-host Jeff Hostetter, Product Manager at Premier Select Sires, explore the challenges and opportunities facing today’s dairy producers. Change in dairy management can feel disruptive with new training, updated protocols, and added investments. But staying the same carries a constant, quiet cost in lost milk production, reproductive failures, high culling rates, and wasted resources.

You’ll learn how forward-thinking farms push past “good enough” and capture more profit by:

• Supporting cow longevity and keeping “Golden Girls” in 4th and 5th lactation productive, the most profitable animals in the herd.
• Recognizing the true ceiling of herd performance and avoiding the trap of underestimating potential.
• Making smart, long-term investments in transition cow management, calf health, and silage protection that deliver a powerful ROI.
• Building trust with dairy nutritionists and consultants who prioritize the farm’s interests and make change easier.

Every dairy pays for pain. The choice is whether to take on the short-term discomfort of change for long-term herd health and profitability, or keep paying forever through hidden losses, high turnover, and missed opportunities. The pain of change is temporary. The pain of staying the same is permanent.

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