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The race to meet incentive days has already begun. Dairy farmers across Canada have the opportunity to increase their total milk revenue from 1.6 percent to 10 percent per month over the five-month or six-month period.

Cargill has announced it will close its Milwaukee, Wisconsin, beef harvest facility, which employs approximately 600 people, effective at the close of business, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

Summer is here and so is the heat. While animal owners are sure to give pets plenty of water and shade, it is just as important for ranchers to have enough water and shade for cattle and other grazing animals.

Johne’s disease and mastitis are two of the most economically important diseases affecting the Canadian dairy industry.

To improve the control of these infectious diseases and reduce the limiting effects they have on the productivity of the industry, Dr. Herman Barkema from the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was appointed as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research Chair in Infectious Diseases of Dairy Cattle.

Many dairy producers and custom choppers understand the significance of kernel-processing their corn silage. While planning for this fall’s corn silage harvest, it is good to examine why corn silage needs to be properly processed and to go through a checklist for preparing the silage harvester to ensure well-processed silage results.

Milking cows at Jeffrey Reijnen’s farm in St. Mary’s, Ontario, receive three different rations. All 155 cows receive the base ration, with fresh cow groups fed some additional ingredients.

Dairy producers and nutritionists understand the importance of providing adequate levels of nutrients in dairy cow rations. However, it is possible to provide too much of a good thing, which can lead to some undesirable consequences.

Mastitis is one of the most important and most common diseases of dairy cows. Conventional therapy for mastitis usually includes antibiotics since bacteria are the most common cause of mastitis. But what about the pain associated with mastitis?