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The government of Canada announced on Sept. 16 that it would invest $12 million in a second Dairy Research Cluster to drive innovation in dairy.The Dairy Research Cluster program, which is now in its second term, is led by Dairy Farmers of Canada. It builds on research themes carried over in part from the first cluster program (2010-2013) and will run for the next five years.
The recent CETA deal opens up market opportunities to Canadian businesses with ambitions to increase their presence in Europe. However, Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) expressed the reaction of many farmers who had put their confidence in the Canadian government in defending the dairy market.
Joe Krentz moved to British Columbia from Saskatchewan when he was 18 and began work in a sawmill. He and Loretta married in 1950, bought their farm in 1954 and started a dairy operation while raising their nine children.
There’s nothing scarier for farm families who are trying to gain control over their lives than to have no clue about what the future holds.
I am chuckling as I write because recently I have been gently asked over the phone if I would like the “senior’s discount” for age 55-plus, and I qualify.
For the fourth consecutive year, ABS Jersey bull 29JE3301 IATOLA earned the Premier Performance Sire Award, presented Nov. 11 at the 61st All American Jersey Show in Louisville, Kentucky.
Progressive Dairyman staff pulled a list of the articles that were the most well read between Oct. 1, 2012 through Oct. 1, 2013 at canada.progressivedairy.com
There are many ways to benchmark your herd’s reproductive performance. But pregnancy rate is the best measurement to use when it comes to getting a sense of how well your whole herd is doing.
Embryo transfer has evolved since its inception in North America in the early 1970s. Today, it is a worldwide, established industry focusing on genetic improvement, with more than 500,000 dairy and beef embryos being transferred annually.
Vets Plus Inc. (VPI) has been granted “preferred supplier” status by the National Animal Supplement Council (NASC), of which it has been a member company since 2005. NASC President Karen Howard announced the addition of VPI to its list at the SupplySide Animal Nutrition Insights Summit, Nov. 13 in Las Vegas.
