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Nowhere in my original plans for this issue are the words “robot” or “automatic,” yet when I page through this magazine I’m about to present to you, I find it weighs heavily on the topic.
I learned long ago you can’t time the news. In the magazine business, we try to plan out what we can. In fact, our schedule for 2014 has already been established. However, we also remain flexible to include timely information.
1. Salt in cheese A research team led by Dr. Steve Labrie (Laval University) looked at the impact of reducing the sodium content on the safety, texture, functional properties and taste of Canadian cheddar, mozzarella and soft cheeses.
They found reducing sodium in cheeses could negatively affect the ripening process, cheese hardness and melting properties.
Delegates from all 10 provinces have voted in favour of Dairy Farmers of Canada’s (DFC) proAction Initiative at its recent annual general meeting in Toronto.
To improve on last year’s symposium, Pearse Lyons, founder and president of Alltech, and his team thought of the 2012 symposium as “boring.”
“We never review what we did right,” Pearse Lyons said. “Last year’s symposium was fantastic, but we wrote down one word and only one word. We should take the approach that last year’s [symposium] was boring. Start again and create something different.”
This year’s symposium was held May 19-22 in Lexington, Kentucky. Nearly 2,400 people attended the event from 72 different countries.
Brad Romyn has a lot of reasons to smile these days. The third-generation dairy farmer from Notch Hill, British Columbia, has made significant changes to his operation which have resulted in a lot more time to spend with his family and huge improvements to his herd’s milk production.
The Romyns’ old barn was a 100-by-60-foot freestall barn with 7-foot stalls.
Implementing a whole-farm approach to mastitis can impact farm profitability. A partnership between farmer and veterinarian managing udder health, based around protocols and education, can see a milk-quality program develop to minimize losses through mastitis. That can be worth several dollars per cow per year.
The 2012 corn crop started out with early planting and emergence before it took a turn for the worse, tormented by a severe and widespread drought across Canada.
Yields suffered, and the environment was just right for moulds such as fusarium to prevail. Aspergillus showed up in some of the Western provinces but was still not as prevalent in eastern Canada as the fusarium and penicillium moulds.
During the 2012 World Dairy Expo, a staircase wrap urged passersby to “Do the Math” and re-evaluate how they choose protein sources for their dairy cows. Typically, we buy protein supplements on the basis of the protein they provide.
In its 20th anniversary year, Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show continues to serve as a showcase event for new innovations in the industry. The event, planned for Sept. 10-12 in Woodstock, Ontario, will feature a number of new products and technologies. Here’s a look at five dairy-related products expected to debut at this year’s show.
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Delegates from all 10 provinces have voted in favour of 
