On any given Tuesday morning at Ferme Blondin, Dann Brady has every reason to fall in love with a genomic profile. The numbers flash green, the index looks like an escalator, and the marketing package practically writes itself. But the moment the second dam turns up blank, or an unclassified heifer sits in the maternal stack, the bull gets deleted.

Blondin Logic PP survived because he was the antithesis of the paper-only young sire:

• The Pedigree Cleared the Screen: Homozygous polled without an asterisk. Backed by Drewholme Lambda Leysure P VG-88, with documented classification and milk recording all the way down the page.
• Type That Works on Concrete: Conformation +16 with 93% reliability—Mammary System +11, Feet & Legs +12, Dairy Strength +7. Not fragile show ring air ...