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When Cor and Cathy Haagsma, owners of Poly-C Farms in Ponoka, Alberta, built their calf barn in 2015, they strongly considered installing automated feeders. However, they and their employees decided they would miss out on visual contact and inspection too much during feeding calves to make the switch from buckets to auto-feeders.
Today’s consumer is more and more interested in knowing about their food. That may include where it came from, something about the farmer or processor that produced it, specific production practices along the way, nutritional composition, etc. More than that though, they have moved beyond wanting the story of food, they want a biography.
Holmestead Dairy of Anola, Manitoba, recently achieved record milk production with its DeLaval VMS (voluntary milking system) shortly after transitioning from a double-four milking parlour to the robotic milking unit.
Cogent Breeding Ltd. has announced an important partnership with the newly formed, type merit specialist Blondin Sires Inc. The move, which creates a dedicated partnership in the supply of breed-leading Holstein type sires, follows Cogent’s recent expansion in the global market.
Dairy NZ has been working to determine the ideal method to increase production while decreasing nutrient loss under a five-year research project called “Pastoral 21,” which is finishing this year.
Ever since my days as a young 4-H member, I have been involved in event planning – so much so that you could probably call it one of my hobbies. While my husband thinks I should consider quilting, baking, gardening or really anything that requires fewer nights away at meetings and days out at events, I just can’t shake my desire to organize events.
In April, the chef de cuisine at Toronto’s Drake Hotel, Alexandra Feswick, emerged victorious in one of Canada’s highest-profile culinary comfort food battles, Dairy Farmers of Canada’s (DFC) Grate Canadian Cheese Cook-Off.
Sometimes the overwhelming demands of farming cause the entire body to slump at the kitchen table. Worn hands stroke graying hair and eyes are reddened and glassy.
Farmers often focus on the varying daily operations at their farm and neglect one of the most important parts – the people who work on the operation. Managing an effective dairy farm includes the leadership you bring to your team of employees.
There is family history on the farm that Stanley Fraser purchased in 1927. Originally a mixed farm, as most were in those days, the business has seen a number of changes over the years.
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