In the first year, the campaign will aim to educate Canadian consumers on the fact that Canadian quality milk is the key ingredient found in the cheese, ice cream, yogurt and butter they enjoy daily.

The following is from an interview with Dr. François Malouin, University of Sherbrooke, member of the Canadian Bovine Mastitis and Milk Quality Research Network.

Sometimes we have to go back to the basics in order to keep healthy change happening on our farms. Lately in my transition seminars, I have encouraged frustrated young farmers to write a letter of intent to their founding parents.

This year, the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar will celebrate 35 continuous years of providing novel ideas, information and solutions relevant to current and emerging challenges of the Canadian dairy industry.

In early April, the Canadian Dairy XPO (CDX) will be the centre of a spectacular dairy week in Ontario.

This winter has been one for the ages; at least it has been in my neck of the woods. In the years and decades to come, we’ll talk and reminisce about the winter of ’17. She was kind of late arriving, but once she got here she made it clear that she was serious and intended to be in charge – not completely unlike an obnoxious mother-in-law or the shirt-tail relative who shows up at funerals and brandings.