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Clearbrook Grain & Milling is a supplier of quality poultry products, premix products, poultry and dairy feeds as well as animal health products in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. 2013 marks their 60th year in business.
Cow comfort has always been top priority at Sugar Creek Farms LLC, says one of the owners, Mike Bruette. The New London, Wisconsin, operation has used sand bedding for its 1,200-head herd and made an effort to keep hooves dry and clean at all times.
“I think the sand bedding helps keep hooves dry and offers better footing in getting up and laying down,” Bruette says.
There is nowhere Jill Hoeppner would rather spend her days than in the Cedarwal Farm dairy barn in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
“I know this is what I’m supposed to do,“ Hoeppner says.
When it comes to women holding equal partnership in a farm operation, Rose Keunen walks the walk and talks the talk.
Rose and her husband, Henry, immigrated to Canada in 1997.
As the fifth generation to grow up on Maple Holme Farms in Carp, a village just outside of Ottawa, Emma Caldwell developed a lifelong love of two things – art and cows.
For our inaugural issue focused on women in the dairy industry, Progressive Dairyman asked a few industry professionals to open up about their opinions about a dairywoman’s role in the industry today.
“Two for the price of one” is a common marketing scheme to tempt consumers to buy a product. After all, who wouldn’t want twice the value at half the cost? Unfortunately, in the case of dairy cow twinning, it’s a very bad deal.
Cows were not designed by nature to routinely carry, deliver and raise two calves simultaneously. While it can and does happen with frequency, twinning in dairy cows is not a desired outcome of a successful breeding program.
A group of Midwestern dairy producers recently visited Idaho to tour a few dairies and invited me to speak to their group about the history of the state’s dairy industry and my thoughts about its future.
