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It is beautiful country where Kevin and April Werkema live and work. Located north of Woodstock near Embro, Ontario, the farm is situated on top of a hill with a stunning vista just across the road as the land dips into the picturesque Braemar Valley. This farm is home to Werkholm Holsteins, a growing operation.
Fill in the blank: When making genetic selection decisions, my ultimate goal is to create a ___________ cow. If you filled in the blank with the word “profitable,” a new tool is on the way that will be of interest to you.
The immune system is the body’s natural defense system that provides protection from a wide range of pathogenic micro-organisms.
Although there is an obvious role that environmental exposure plays in building immunity to specific diseases, the proficiency and robustness of the entire immune system is actually genetically regulated.
Following a coordinated industry effort, a national system for collecting health events was implemented in 2007.
Since that time, approximately 40 percent of all herds enrolled on milk recording are voluntarily recording the incidence of eight key diseases: mastitis, displaced abomasum, clinical ketosis, milk fever, retained placenta, metritis, cystic ovaries and lameness.
Breeding cows back in a timely manner hinges upon that first estrous cycle after calving, but sometimes the return to estrus is delayed. However, there are things you can do to identify and manage these cows and improve your herd’s pregnancy rate.
Over the last 50 years, milk production of dairy cows has essentially doubled in Canada.
Even if cows consume an increased amount of dry matter, meeting the early lactation nutrient needs of high-producing dairy cows is a big challenge. The transition period is, more than ever, a critical period.
Be it liquid manure from a hog or dairy farm, solid manure from a cattle feedlot or litter from a poultry operation, there can be dramatic differences in the quality of nutrients in the manure, its beneficial characteristics for soil and crops, and its impact on neighbours and the environment.
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has announced Perryhill Farm’s Dwayne and Becky Perry (New Brunswick), Ferme Bois Mou’s Mario Lefebvre and Denise Joyal (Quebec), and UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre’s management (British Colombia) as finalists of this year’s edition of the Dairy Farm Sustainability Award.
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has officially launched a public relations campaign to begin a conversation with Canadians and generate support for Canadian dairy farmers and the country’s supply management system.
The following letter to the editor was submitted by Dairy Farmers of Canada.
The pace of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has accelerated over the past few weeks and are entering their most critical phase to date.
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