Progressive Dairy

Considerations for high corn silage diets

December 31, 2012

The 2012 growing season has reached the finish line, and for many it was a year we hope to never experience again. With producers working hard this summer and fall to get enough feed for the year, many questions came across my desk regarding summer forage crops, late cuttings of alfalfa and a wide variety of other topics related to the recent drought and subsequent feed shortage.

What the next generation needs for succession success

December 31, 2012

Elaine Froese

Founders typically want to know where their income streams will be after they let go of power and control of management and/or ownership. They also have marital conflict about home residence issues and how to be fair to non-business heirs.

Steps taken to identify, address hoof health

December 31, 2012

Vic Daniel

The Ontario Dairy Hoof Health Project is a successful applicant for one of several projects mandated by the Agricultural Biosecurity Program (ABP). The project was funded by participating members of the Ontario Hoof Trimmers Guild, The Agricultural Adaptation Council, Dairy Farmers of Ontario, EastGen and Grandview Concrete Grooving.

The Ontario Dairy Hoof Health Project was created to investigate cases of dairy cattle lameness due to claw lesions from structural damage to and/or infections of hoof (claw) tissues.

The project’s short-term goals were to:

Elgersmas pull together to keep their family farm

December 31, 2012

Alice Guthrie

The Elgersma family arrived in British Columbia by a circuitous route. Alice was born in Holland, then moved to Brazil, where she met her husband, Charlie Elgersma.

Get to know canola as a feed source

December 31, 2012

Essi Evans

Many of the protein sources used in dairy rations are byproducts of the production of oil for food and industrial uses: soybean meal, sesame seed meal, linseed meal and canola meal, for example.

Optimize nitrogen nutrition for rumen efficiency

December 31, 2012

Silvio Miranda

While weather is a constant uncertainty for dairy farmers, 2012 brought with it distinct challenges as alfalfa and grain suffered from drought, heat and destructive insects in Eastern Canada.

Pacific Agriculture Show

December 31, 2012

The Pacific Agriculture Show at the Tradex Exhibition Centre (Abbotsford Airport) in Abbotsford, British Columbia, will showcase the latest and most innovative equipment and technology for the agriculture industry.

Western Canadian Dairy Seminar is March 5-8

December 11, 2012

The 31st Western Canadian Dairy Seminar gathers the latest information in dairy production and technology advances. This seminar is designed for people who want to improve their knowledge and decision-making abilities in dairy production and management. Dairy producers, extension specialists, researchers, and dairy service and supply representatives will find this seminar valuable.

Semex announces Immunity+ sires

December 6, 2012

Dairy cow health traits have been very difficult to improve genetically. For more than a decade, Semex has been supporting immune response research at the University of Guelph in Canada under the direction of Bonnie Mallard, professor immunogenetics, department of pathobiology.

Semex's Goldwyn passes 1000 EX daughters in Canada

December 5, 2012

Semex sire Braedale Goldwyn continues his march into the history books with the classification of his one thousandth Excellent (EX) daughter in Canada. Holstein Canada has determined that his one thousandth EX daughter is Donar Pally Jo Goldwyn, who scored EX-90-CAN in her fourth lactation by Holstein Canada Classifier Bruno Jubinville.