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Enrolment is complete, the district calendar has been transferred onto the family calendar, and the brand-new backpack is brimming with supplies. These are all signs the school year is about to start.
Ian MacDonald, national director of marketing and nutrition at Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), presented a five-year strategic plan during DFC’s annual general meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on July 16. The plan exposed opportunities and threats to dairy products.
Workers include all full-time and part-time employees, casual or seasonal labour, family members and anyone else you pay for working on your farm.
If you have employees, there are certain things to keep in mind. You must register with the Canada Revenue Agency and calculate and withhold monthly source deductions from your employees’ gross wages.
Automatic milking systems have been around for some time now. In Canada, their number continues to increase, with different companies now operating in the market. This is an exciting technology, more and more accurate and reliable, but it brings with it some new and interesting challenges.
Sunnyglade Farm near Steinbach, Manitoba, has seen its share of hard times. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) hit the Canadian cattle business hard in 2003.
When Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (COFS) debuted in 1994, it was pegged as “a bold move in exhibiting” because of one main factor – experiencing technology in action. Now in year 21, the same rings true.
For our University Review section, we invited about 20 schools across the country to take part, and received responses from five of them. We've compiled information about each school's agricultural offerings.
Over the past few years, the adoption rate of activity monitors for heat detection has grown significantly in herds where cows are able to move about freely.
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