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Our cows have so many demands on them: Put clean milk in the tank, breed back, efficiently utilize feed and more. However, each of these demands are contingent upon the cow’s mobility.
In November 2021, as floods ravaged the Pacific Northwest, The Canadian Podcow hosts Sarah Sache and Andrew Campbell were recording a pre-scheduled interview with Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) President Pierre Lampron.
“Effect of dry-off management on milking behaviour, milk yield and somatic cell count of dairy cows milked in automated milking systems.”Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 105, No. 4, 2022.
The sun was shining on March 17 when Stacy, Val, Murrel and Wilma Frey welcomed more than 1,200 people to their new dairy facility in Waterloo, Ontario.
Young workers (ages 15 to 24) are three to four times more likely to be hurt on the job within the first six months of employment compared to the average Canadian worker.
Canada’s farmland values climbed in spite of impacts from pandemic supply chain disruptions and adverse weather that affected parts of the country, as Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) Farmland Values Report showed an 8.3% national average increase in 2021.
Many farms and farmers in Canada share the same goal: to see their farm transfer successfully to the next generation so they may reap and improve upon the benefits of the farming business built up through decades of hard work and dedication.
Over 15 years, my partner and I facilitated a management club for a
group of 20 or so farms. We would meet quarterly at a different farm,
with a different topic for discussion at each meeting. We also
calculated income over feed costs (IOFC) for each farm.
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