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Being able to talk freely with your farm team and feel they understand what you need is a huge gift. Farm families in business sometimes get stuck with problems when they get trapped in the “blame game” of blaming someone else for their problems.
Feb. 19 marked the date of the 2015 South Western Ontario Dairy Symposium, which took place in Woodstock, Ontario.
In its 32nd year, symposium founder and organizer Jack Rodenburg was proud to set a new record with more than 800 attendees and 122 exhibitors at this year’s event.
A recent survey of Canadian corn silage samples from September to November 2014 tested for mycotoxin contamination found an average 4.8 mycotoxins per sample. Based on these results, experts have placed the mycotoxin risk level for dairy cows at high alert.
Nearly two years into its 10-year timeline, the proAction Initiative is well underway. Four technical committees have been established to focus on animal care, biosecurity, traceability and environment.
On June 2, 2014, the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) received an undercover video from a national activist group which triggered the SPCA to launch an animal cruelty investigation at a large dairy farm in the Fraser Valley.
Although milk production is the main and obvious focus of the dairy industry, a secondary but equally important component of the dairy business is the production and marketing of beef cattle resulting from surplus bull calves and cull cows.
AgriLabs is building on its partnership with Addison Biological Laboratory by rolling out two new autogenous products – Moraxella bovoculi and Streptococcus uberis mastitis vaccines – made with Enabl, a new adjuvant from VaxLiant that is USDA-approved for safety.
