Alltech Canada (AC) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary at its Canadian headquarters in Guelph, Ontario. AC was founded in 1988 and now has offices strategically located across the country.

Along with providing GenoTest services for Jersey Canada (JC) breeders, Holstein Canada (HC) has received requests from clients to have U.S. values on Jersey animals.


This year as we took a closer look at how dairy farmers are producing a quality product, we learned it’s almost 50/50 either way when it comes to teat dip selection.

Thanksgiving: A time when we gather with family and friends to give thanks for the many blessings we have in our lives.

I recently met one Ontario farm couple that has a lot to be thankful for this year. Even though they suffered a terrible fire on their dairy in July, in which more than 100 animals were lost, Clarence and Wendy Markus are thankful no person was hurt and the animals did not suffer long.

All you need is cheese this fall
This fall, Dairy Farmers of Canada’s All You Need Is Cheese (AYNIC) campaign was revitalized with a brand new positioning: “Cheese. An Excellent Source of Pleasure.”

New messages were created around this positioning to create a meaningful association between cheese and pleasure in the minds of consumers.

There is nowhere Jill Hoeppner would rather spend her days than in the Cedarwal Farm dairy barn in Abbotsford, British Columbia. “I know this is what I’m supposed to do,“ Hoeppner says.

As the fifth generation to grow up on Maple Holme Farms in Carp, a village just outside of Ottawa, Emma Caldwell developed a lifelong love of two things – art and cows.