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You think your $8 beef straws are saving money. The spreadsheet says otherwise. In this episode of The Bullvine Podcast, we tear apart the economics of three beef-on-dairy strategies modeled on an identical 500-cow Holstein herd — same parlor, same pregnancy rate, same cull rate. The only variable: how seriously the operation treated sire selection and calf management. The annual gap between the cheapest approach and the most disciplined? $156,600. That's $313 per cow, and most of it isn't where you'd expect.

Key Takeaways:

• Why the U.S. heifer deficit (600,000–700,000 head short per updated NAAB data) makes every straw of beef semen a bet on your replacement pipeline
• The exact model inputs that turn a "good beef cheque" into a 15-heifer annual shortfall costing $12,900 just to stand still
• How well-selected beef × dairy crosses actually outmarble native beef (481 vs. 447 marbling score) — and why random-sire crosses are sliding toward Holstein bull calf pricing
• What packer selectivity means for your calves now that Tyson's Lexington plant (5,000 head/day) has gone offline
• Three clear paths — stay random, structured sires, or full finisher integration — with the real cost of each
• A 30/90/365-day audit checklist you can start this week with one number: your actual 21-day pregnancy rate

Why Listen:

This isn't another "should you use beef semen?" conversation. You already are. The question is whether those straws are building equity or quietly draining it. We walk through CoBank's August 2025 heifer deficit analysis, peer-reviewed carcass data from Texas Tech (Foraker et al., 2022), and the trait-by-trait premium breakdown — ADG, marbling EPD, ribeye area, and documentation — that separates $1,150 calves from $1,550 calves. We also dig into replacement economics: at $3,010 per springer, the $27,900 swing between a sloppy breeding strategy and a disciplined one happens before a single beef calf crosses the sale ring. Whether you're running 200 cows or 1,000, this episode lays out the terminal index cutoffs ($AxH, ITI, HOLSim — top 25% only), the one-page calf protocol that adds $150–$200 per head, and the phone call to a finisher that will teach you more than a year of semen catalogues. If your PR is below 25% and you're breeding more than 40% to beef, the math in this episode might change your next semen order.

Resources & Engagement:

Read the full article with comparison tables, the trait-premium breakdown, and the complete 30/90/365-day audit checklist at https://www.thebullvine.com/news/7700-saved-156600-lost-the-beef-on-dairy-trap-cobank-warned-you-about/. Search "Beef-on-Dairy Trap" or find the direct link in our show notes.

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World Dairy Expo just named its 2026 class of honorees — and this year's picks tell the story of where dairy has been, where it's headed, and who's actually doing the work to get it there.

A man walks into a Quebec AI center in 1966. He's 21 years old. They hand him a bull nobody wants — a young sire the industry has already written off. He doesn't flinch. He backs the bull anyway. Six decades later, Robert Chicoine's fingerprints are on the genetic evaluation systems, the progeny testing programs, and the global export infrastructure that Canadian dairy genetics runs on. His story is a masterclass in what happens when one person sees what an entire industry refuses to.

A sixth-generation Wisconsin farmer trades the editor's desk at Hoard's Dairyman for the economist's chair at CoBank — without ever leaving the barn. Corey Geiger spent nearly 30 years shaping how dairy people think about their industry. Now he's shaping how lenders think about dairy's future. His analysis of the 800,000-head heifer hole and the shift from volume to components has changed how producers, co-ops, and banks make decisions.

And then there's a family in upstate New York that milks 10,000 cows, breeds Supreme Champions, and makes Mexican-style cheese because their employees couldn't find it locally. Oakfield Corners Dairy took a 1966 startup with 100 cows and built it into a global genetics powerhouse with Premier Breeder banners, a generational sire in SHEEPSTER, and 4,500 embryos implanted every year.

The Story You'll Hear

• The bull that Quebec's entire industry rejected — and the young analyst who staked his career on it
• How a farm kid from Reedsville, Wisconsin became the voice dairy lenders trust most
• The 2019 mating decision at Oakfield that broke every rule in their own program — and produced a Grand Champion
• Why Geiger believes the old way of measuring milk is already obsolete
• The moment Chicoine realized Canada needed to stop importing genetic evaluation systems and build its own
• How 13 family members run a 10,000-cow dairy without destroying the partnership — or each other
• What Oakfield's artisanal cheese project reveals about labor, culture, and keeping good people

Three very different paths. One shared thread: these are people who saw what was coming before the rest of the industry caught up — and had the conviction to act on it.

Read the full feature profiles, deep-dive genetics data, and interview transcripts at https://www.thebullvine.com/show-reports/world-dairy-expo/from-65-cows-to-10000-the-bull-nobody-wanted-and-an-economist-who-tells-it-straight-wde-names-its-2026-award-winners/ . Subscribe to The Bullvine Podcast wherever you listen, and sign up for The Bullvine Weekly newsletter so you never miss the stories that matter to your operation.

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On a cold Massachusetts morning, state men rode up Winthrop Chenery's lane with rifles to shoot his Dutch cows. Rinderpest had come, but before the echoes faded, he ordered another shipment from Holland. This is the story of the men who imported black-and-whites in the 1850s and 1880s—not speculators, but orchardists, nurserymen, and farmers who bet big on a breed that would fill barns from Ontario to Oceania. Their barns are gone, their fortunes faded, but their cows are in every pedigree you own. (347 chars)

Key Moments:

• The rifles cracking at Chenery's Belmont farm—and the telegram to Holland sent the same day
• Gerrit Miller's Triple Crown: Johanna, Empress, and Ondine, two of whom built Elevation and Starbuck
• How a blind man at Brookside Farm felt his way to foundation cows whose blood is in 7.2% of today's herd
• Smiths & Powell importing 1,293 head—not for numbers, but for names like Aaggie and Clothilde that set world records
• B.B. Lord's Sinclairville cows seeding Canada's Posch-Abbekerk and Pauline Colantha Posch lines
• The Powell brothers' Shadeland empire—1,500 head, its own railroad siding—dismantled by tractors they refused to buy (872 chars)

Why This Story Matters

Trace Elevation back twenty dams: Ondine, hand-picked in 1879 by Gerrit Miller. Starbuck carries her through Elevation, plus Johanna on his dam side. Walkway Chief Mark goes to Gortje 2d. O-Bee Manfred Justice to Netherland Jewel. Glenridge Citation Roxy EX-97 to Ottile and Vrouka. Plushanski Chief Faith to Pancha. These aren't footnotes; they're the maternal spine of the bulls and cows breeders chase today.

The importers worked without proofs or genomics—just milk scales, butter molds, and eyes for a cow that could handle a new continent. Chenery doubled down after losing his first load to plague. Miller named his farm after a Dutch legend and bred around three cows for sixty years. Henry Stevens lost his sight and judged by feel. Smiths & Powell scoured Holland for Rooker daughters. B.B. Lord shipped foundation to Canada while drifting to horses.

Their era was raw: dual-purpose Shorthorns pulling wagons, the Erie Canal shifting New York from grain to milk, $300 per head when wages were $1 a day. They built coherence from imports, turning "Dutch cattle" into a breed with traceable families. Everything after—robots, TMRs, 40,000-lb averages—rests on decisions made by lantern light.

This audio overview, drawn from our full feature, brings those choices alive. You'll hear how barns burned and fortunes crumbled, but the bloodlines didn't. For anyone pulling pedigrees, it's the origin story behind the names that light up your screens. (1,456 chars)

Continue the Journey

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Most Holstein breeders are quietly shifting their sire lists after the latest TPI update — without ever checking whether the new formula actually matches their milk check. This episode dissects TPI 2026’s 24P:14F production weights and makes an uncomfortable claim: a 500‑cow herd that blindly follows the protein‑heavy signal can bleed around $17,500 a year in component revenue compared to a herd that simply breeds for total fat + protein. If you rely on TPI to define “good bulls,” this conversation will force you to decide whether you’re optimizing for processor preferences or your own profitability.

Key Takeaways:

· Why the shift from 19P:19F to 24P:14F is a directional change, not a minor tweak, in how Holstein genetics are being rewarded.

· How the new TPI formula effectively values one pound of protein like ~1.7 pounds of fat — in a market where recent USDA Class III data still pays more per pound for fat.

· The simple barn‑math scenario showing how a 500‑cow herd can give up ~15 lb of fat to gain ~5 lb of protein and end up ~$35/cow/year behind.

· The “3× protein” break‑even rule — and why US component prices have never come close to justifying that trade.

· How TPI’s internal economics (FE$) actually value fat higher than protein, even as the external production weights do the opposite.

· Why Net Merit 2025 and Lactanet’s LPI move in a very different direction than TPI — and what that says about whose economics each index serves.

· A practical 30/90/365‑day playbook to audit your bull battery, stop over‑selecting on the protein‑to‑fat ratio, and re‑anchor your program on real component dollars.

· The key question every progressive breeder should be asking: “Does this index describe the cow my contract pays best, or just the cow the formula designer prefers?”

This episode doesn’t just recap a proof run; it pulls the hood off the economic assumptions driving modern Holstein breeding. You’ll hear a step‑by‑step breakdown of how the new TPI 2026 production slice (24% protein, 14% fat) changes selection pressure over the next decade and why that matters if you’re paid on components, not fluid volume. We walk through scenario math on a realistic 500‑cow Holstein herd, comparing a TPI‑driven, protein‑leaning mating strategy against a “boring” Net Merit / total‑CFP strategy that simply maximizes fat + protein sold.

Along the way, we confront a key contradiction: TPI’s own Feed Efficiency Dollar engine values fat at $1.86/lb and protein at $1.75/lb, yet the production weighting gives protein 71% more leverage than fat. Net Merit 2025, using similar economics, moves the opposite way — increasing the emphasis on fat and penalizing big cows. Lactanet’s LPI explicitly ties its 40F:60P shift to Canadian quota pricing. The result is a hard question for US herds on Class III grids: if your system still pays more per pound for fat, why are you letting a protein‑tilted index define your “best” bulls?

For the full article, charts, and the 30/90/365‑day bull‑audit checklist discussed in this episode, visit https://www.thebullvine.com/genetic-evaluation-system/tpi-2026s-17500-protein-trap-breeding-holsteins-for-a-protein-market-that-doesnt-exist/ and look for the feature on the TPI 2026 protein trap. Additional links to data sources, USDA component pricing, and index documentation are available on the episode page.

Galician farmers didn't just dump 15,000 litres of Portuguese milk on the pavement — they exposed a processor playbook running across every dairy market: public subsidies build "local" plants, cheaper imports fill them, and your contract gets squeezed 15%. This episode breaks down the €14 million Inleit scandal, the six-processor table of identical 7–9 cent cuts that triggered the protest, and the €40,000 annual hole those prices would carve out of a 100-cow farm. You'll hear why Spain's Food Chain Law keeps failing, how FMMO make-allowances quietly shifted $337 million from US producers to plants, and four checks you can run on your own processor before the next negotiation round.

Key Takeaways:

• How a €14 million subsidized "Galician" plant ended up processing 12 Portuguese tankers daily — and what that means for your own processor's grants.
• The barn math behind a 15% price cut: €320,000 revenue vs €360,000 costs on a 100-cow herd, leaving €40,000 in the red.
• Why Food Chain Laws don't work — AICA fines get thrown out, even as courts order cartel compensation from Capsa, Puleva, and Danone.
• North American parallels: FMMO reforms, TRQs, and subsidized expansions that move millions from milk pools to processors without a single "price cut" line on your cheque.
• Four 30-day actions: pull grant files, track intake sources, stress-test breakeven, and break single-buyer dependency.

Deeper Dive - Why Listen: Óscar Pose from Unións Agrarias counted those 12 tankers himself and called the strategy a deliberate bottom-line play for all of 2026 — not just the next four months. Noelia Rodríguez from Agromuralla pegged costs at 45¢/L against 40¢ offers, while FEGA data shows Galicia's 5,212 farms dropping below 5,000 as smaller operations fold. The episode dissects the six-processor contract table — Inleit's zero-premium base vs Larsa's welfare tiers — and reveals how AICA's €703,000 in Q1 2026 fines vanished on procedural technicalities. You'll get the full FMMO math ($337 million pool revenue transfer in three months) and Canadian TRQ realities, plus actionable checks like auditing public grant terms that could reveal sourcing obligations your processor is quietly ignoring. If you're negotiating contracts, managing a milk pool, or wondering why "local" branding doesn't protect your cheque, this episode hands you the playbook — and the counters.

Resources & Engagement: Full article, grant file templates, and breakeven calculator at thebullvine.com/galicia-processor-playbook. Subscribe for weekly episodes on genetics ROI, processor leverage, and farm survival math. Share your processor playbook stories on Twitter @TheBullvine or email [email protected] — we read every one.

The New York Spring Dairy Carousel is one of those weekends that reminds you why you fell in love with cows in the first place.

In this episode of The Bullvine Podcast, we take you ringside in Hamburg, NY, and walk you through a stacked three days of show cows, cow families, and the people crazy enough to chase perfection in March weather.

This isn’t a class-by-class readout. It’s the story behind the results.

We pull together all five of The Bullvine’s 2026 Carousel show reports:

• New York Spring Holstein Show
• Northeast National Red & White Show
• New York Spring Jersey Show
• New York Spring Brown Swiss Show
• New York Spring Ayrshire Show

Then we ask the questions you were shouting at your phone while you scrolled:

• How did a Holstein senior lineup with Lady Crush, Victor Aria, and Hard Rock Twigs compare to the best we’ve seen in the last decade?
• Where did the deepest young cow classes actually show up — Holstein, Red & White, or Jersey?
• Which herds quietly had a monster weekend across multiple breeds, and what does that say about their breeding programs?
• Are we seeing a real shift toward cows that can make 150,000–200,000 pounds and still look like show cows, or were those just a few freaks in the production classes?

If you’re a:

• Dairy farmer, you’ll hear what these results mean for sire selection, show-string strategy, and which cow families keep proving they’re not one-hit wonders.
• Genetics nerd, you’ll catch the sire stacks, cross-border matings, and the kind of “outcross” that still fits what wins.
• Industry pro, you’ll get a feel for where the energy in the show ring really is — and who’s likely to drive demand this fall.

By the end of the episode, you’ll feel like you walked the barns, heard the chatter at the rail, and stood in the ring when the big fingers pointed.

No fluff. No polished press-release talk. Just an honest, inside-the-barn-office debrief on one of the most important spring checkpoints in the North American show calendar.

🔊 Listen if you want to:

• Turn raw results into real-world breeding and business decisions.
• Understand which cows and cow families actually moved the needle this weekend.
• Get a ringside seat without leaving the parlor.

Find the full written show reports, photos, and complete placings at The Bullvine: 👉 www.thebullvine.com

What happens when a Fortune 50 AI company offers you $60,000 an acre — and you say no? In this episode, we unpack the Mason County, Kentucky story where Ida Huddleston and Delsia Bare rejected a $26 million buyout for 534 acres of working farmland, and their neighbors turned down nearly $8 million more. We use their decision as a hard case study in land values, AI-driven development pressure, and the estate-planning traps that can quietly bankrupt the next generation even when today’s balance sheet looks strong.

Key Takeaways

· How a Fortune 50 tech company ended up offering $60,000 an acre for Kentucky farmland — and why multiple families still refused.

· The barn‑math behind the headlines: comparing $26.5M at 5% passive return vs. realistic net income on 534 acres.

· Why industrial land comps can turn your estate plan into a ticking time bomb for the one heir who actually wants to farm.

· Concrete warning signs that an AI data center, solar field, or logistics hub is already circling your neighborhood.

· Three realistic paths when a “too good to be true” land offer lands on your table — and the brutal trade‑offs each one carries.

· The 30‑day checklist every producer in a growth or power corridor should run now, before a developer ever calls.

· How this Kentucky fight ties into SGMA‑driven exits in California and the consolidation curve pushing U.S. herd numbers toward 15,000 by 2035.

This isn’t a feel‑good “isn’t that nice” news repost. It’s a dissection of one of the most aggressive land‑value gaps we’ve seen: farmland worth roughly $6,000 an acre on ag economics suddenly priced at 8.3× that by an AI data center project. We run the numbers the way you actually would at the kitchen table — $26.5M at 5% vs. $150–$400/acre net — and show how walking away means turning down six to ten years of your current annual net income, every single year, in perpetuity. Then we ask the question most coverage dodges: when the spreadsheet screams “sell,” what are you really choosing if you don’t?

For the full barn‑math breakdown, the Kentucky case study, and related articles on SGMA, land conversion, and the Bullvine Dairy Curve, visit https://www.thebullvine.com/dairy-industry/60000-an-acre-a-fortune-50-ai-company-offered-the-huddlestons-26-million-for-their-kentucky-farm-they-refused/— links and supporting data are in the show notes there. Subscribe to The Bullvine Podcast on Apple Podcasts so you don’t miss the follow‑up episodes that dig deeper into land economics, technology, and succession strategy.

Nearly 40% of U.S. dairy farms disappeared between 2017 and 2022, yet national milk kept climbing. In this episode, we dig into the uncomfortable truth: the most important decision on a modern dairy isn’t the parlor, the robot, or the sire book – it’s who owns the business and how much debt each cow is carrying. Using Cornell’s 2024 Dairy Farm Business Summary and real-world expansion scars from High Plains Ponderosa, Tuls Dairy, and Cedar Ridge Dairy, we unpack why one of the most respected operators in the country walked away from private equity and what that means for your balance sheet.

Key Takeaways

• Why Greg Bethard and other large-herd operators are rejecting classic private equity deals despite massive capital needs.

• How Cornell’s 2024 DFBS data exposes a hard line between ~$3,000 and ~$6,600 of debt per cow – and what happens on each side of that line.

• The real difference between a deal “built to pencil” and a deal “built to sell,” and how covenants quietly take control of cow-level decisions.

• Three ownership models – PE, strategic partners, and slow-build family structures – and the trade-offs they create for succession, risk, and control.

• Why site selection has become a capital decision, not just a land decision, as new plants in Kansas, Texas, and the I‑29 corridor pull milk into existence.

• A simple 30‑day stress test you can run on your own expansion plan using debt per cow, coverage ratio, and working capital.

This episode takes you inside a pivotal conversation from the MILK Business Conference, where three very different operators – Greg Bethard of High Plains Ponderosa Dairy in Kansas, TJ Tuls of DARI Processing in Nebraska, and Hank Hafliger of Cedar Ridge Dairy in Idaho – laid out why they chose long‑term partners over five‑to‑seven‑year private equity money. You’ll hear how Bethard frames “partners, not investors,” why Tuls’ family is putting roughly $165 million behind their own processing plant, and how Hafliger unified multiple dairies into one family business on purpose, not by accident.

We don’t stop at stories. We run the barn math. Drawing on Cornell’s 2024 DFBS bulletin, we talk through what it actually looks like when the top‑earning quartile sits around $2,997 of debt per cow with coverage above 5×, while the bottom quartile sits near $6,638 with coverage under 1× – even in a strong income year. Then we push that into a real example: a 2,000‑cow herd, a $6.53/cwt cost spread between top and bottom, and roughly $3.6 million a year in operating difference that either services debt or buries you.

For more on the debt‑per‑cow thresholds, DFBS quartile data, and regional expansion trends discussed in this episode, visit https://www.thebullvine.com/management/why-greg-bethard-passed-on-private-equity-and-the-6638%e2%80%91per%e2%80%91cow-debt-line-behind-that-call/

The Henschel family near Manawa, Wisconsin milked through 5-to-15-foot drifts during the March 14–16, 2026 blizzard — hit every milking, kept feed in front of cows — and still had to open the valve and dump nearly a full day's milk because the truck couldn't reach them. The federal safety net paid exactly $0 on that milk. In this episode, we break down why every disaster program USDA offers covers dead cows, extra feed, and margin shortfalls, but not a single one covers milk dumped in 2026. We run the barn math on what a 72-hour transport shutdown actually costs at 200, 500, and 1,000 cows — and lay out what you can do about it before the next storm hits.

Key Takeaways:

• Why LIP, ELAP, DMC, and NAP all failed to cover the Henschels' actual milk loss — and the one program that would have (the Milk Loss Program) closed its signup seven weeks too early
• The real dollar exposure: $7,733 for a 200-cow herd, $19,332 at 500 cows, and $38,664 at 1,000 cows over three days at $16.11/cwt Class III
• How to calculate your own three-day "dump exposure" number in under 60 seconds using your last hauler statement
• The critical difference between the 30-day Notice of Loss deadline and the application-for-payment deadline — and why confusing them leaves money on the table
• Four practical paths to reduce your risk: more storage, tighter hauler agreements, neighbour mutual-aid pacts, and pushing for a permanent Milk Loss Program
• Why DMC is margin insurance, not disaster insurance — and what the "big, beautiful" farm bill actually left uninsured

Deeper Dive — Why Listen:

Congress has funded the Milk Loss Program twice — once for 2020–2022 losses and again for 2023–2024 under the American Relief Act of 2025. Both times, retroactively. Both times, the program expired. The Henschels' blizzard landed in March 2026, squarely in the gap. This episode walks through the NWS storm data (26.6 inches in Green Bay, 33 inches in Shawano County, 59 mph gusts, I-94 closed), the FSA program rules, and the specific deadlines producers need to hit right now if they had any livestock or feed losses. We also dig into USDA's Farm Storage Facility Loan Program — which most dairy producers don't realize can finance bulk milk tanks — and whether adding 24 hours of storage capacity pencils out against a five-figure dump risk. If you've never run the math on what happens when your road disappears for three days, this episode will change how you think about self-insured risk on your operation.

Resources & Engagement:

Read the full article with charts, program tables, and barn-math worksheets at https://www.thebullvine.com/management/the-henschels-dumped-38664-of-milk-after-a-blizzard-the-federal-safety-net-paid-0/. Subscribe to The Bullvine Weekly newsletter for the follow-up coverage on the AMPI Paynesville shutdown and the $17,500 DMC gamble analysis. Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you don't miss the next instalment in our "When the Truck Can't Come" series. And if you've got a storm story or a milk-dump number of your own, find us on Facebook — we want to hear what your three-day exposure looks like.

Ontario dairy quota has been sold for years as a “safe” cornerstone asset. But with a hard cap at $24,000/kg and commercial interest rates in the 5.5–6% range, newly financed quota is now quietly bleeding hundreds of dollars per kilogram in annual cash flow. This episode dissects the numbers behind the hype, showing why many expansion and succession plans no longer pencil out—and what progressive producers are doing instead.

Key Takeaways:

· Why March’s DFO quota exchange—1,908 buyers, 18 sellers, and a cancelled February run—signals a structural problem, not just “tight supply.”

· The barn‑level math that proves new Ontario quota at 6% is a negative‑carry asset, and how to calculate the $/kg gap on your own farm.

· How the quota price cap freezes capital appreciation and quietly erodes real wealth through inflation, even when milk cheques look stable.

· What the Metske v. Metske court decision really means for sweat equity, unwritten family deals, and the next generation’s balance sheet.

· How to use DSCR (Debt‑Service Coverage Ratio) and EBITDA splits to see whether your cows are truly profitable or being subsidized by your crops.

· Four strategic paths—pay down, hold and optimize, restructure succession, or sell and redeploy—and which operations each one actually fits.

· Why upcoming trade pressure and CUSMA review make negative‑carry quota a far bigger risk than most boardroom slide decks admit.

This episode takes aim at one of the most protected assumptions in Canadian dairy: that quota is always a safe, wealth‑building asset. Using current DFO exchange data, interest rate levels, and realistic net income per kilogram, the discussion walks through the exact cash‑flow math showing how a $24,000/kg cap and 6% money translate into roughly a $586/kg annual loss on newly financed Ontario quota. Instead of abstract policy talk, you get concrete examples—a 35 kg add‑on that quietly drains more than $20,000 a year, and a 140 kg transfer that leaves the next generation with a DSCR under 0.5 when the bank wants 1.25.

For charts, barn‑math cheat sheets, and the full written analysis behind this episode, visit https://www.thebullvine.com/dairy-markets/the-586%e2%80%91per%e2%80%91kilo-dairy-quota-trap-why-new-ontario-quota-at-6-bleeds-cash-every-year/ and look for the Ontario quota debt feature. New episodes of The Bullvine Podcast drop regularly—subscribe on Apple Podcasts so you don’t miss the next deep dive into the genetics, economics, and strategies that actually move your margin. Have thoughts on quota policy, DSCR, or how you’re handling succession under today’s rates? Join the conversation with The Bullvine on Facebook, Instagram, or X and share what the math looks like on your farm.