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Challenges: They’re unavoidable in any business. While they can lead to exciting, successful growth, they can also result in the unfortunate sudden downturn of a business. What is the difference between these two outcomes? Mindset.
Dairy farmers and agribusiness personnel are invited to attend the Progressive Dairy Operator’s (PDO) Triennial Dairy Symposium, March 21-23, at the International Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
Bridon Farms in Paris, Ontario, is a family operation, including Brian Sayles and his two sons, Bruce and Jeff. Since there is no hired labour, when it came time to make changes on the farm, efficiency and cow comfort were high priorities.
As I sit down to pen this editorial, we have just entered the New Year. It is a time filled with joy, excitement and resolutions. Some of the most popular resolutions involve a focus on fitness and to eat better in hopes of being a little lighter when we enter the next holiday season.
Lameness is one of the most important welfare, health and productivity problems in intensive dairy farming worldwide. It is important for dairy farmers to realize it causes pain and therefore reduces cow longevity, milk production and reproductive performance, all of which contribute to substantial financial losses.
Capping a successful year of raising awareness about the benefits of chocolate milk as a workout recovery drink, Recharge with Milk sponsored its final event of 2015, the Legs for Literacy race weekend, which took place in Moncton in October.
Editor’s note: This article is based on a presentation by Gerhard Ritzema on June 24, 2015. Since that time, the Ritzemas decided to return to a milking parlor in place of their automatic milking system.
An inline milk analysis tool is now setting the daily management routine at Ritzema Dairy Ltd.
The dairy has more than a year under its belt using a real-time technology that determines each individual cow’s risk for estrus, ketosis, mastitis and more – all from a milk sample.
I grew up in a village of 14,000 people in the southwest of England. It was a community surrounded by dairy farms, sheep and pig farms, and rapeseed crops; it also had a slaughterhouse in the centre of the town. My family was involved in many aspects of the livestock and dairy industry, and I even delivered milk to the residents as my first job.
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