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In February, Lactalis Canada announced it will introduce DFC’s Blue Cow logo on its Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond, Cheestrings, aMOOza! and P’tit Québec cheeses made with Canadian milk. This means that by spring 2020, more than 8,000 dairy products will feature the Blue Cow logo.
Preventing, managing and treating mastitis is a priority area of research for dairy farmers; it’s one of the costliest dairy cattle health issues on a dairy farm. A study published in 2018 by the Mastitis Network estimated losses associated with mastitis at $665 million per year or $660 per cow per year.
Warmer weather is fast approaching, and with that comes the opportunity for fieldwork and other outside work on your operation. We often use attachments or transport large items to get necessary outdoors work completed.
As the co-author of Farming’s In-Law Factor, I spent a year of Tuesdays researching, interviewing and asking tough questions about marriage on the farm.
An article in our January issue of Progressive Dairyannounced a collaborative project to install a milk tower from Paul Mueller Company at Grootendorst Farms in Breslau, Ontario. Since then, the tower has been installed on the farm and the initial milk samples are being drawn.
The last few winter seasons we’ve experienced have not been easy for grasslands. Winters dotted with ice, followed by a dry summer, often led to the death or significant decrease in forage yields across the country.
Tunnel ventilation was originally introduced in the 1980s primarily as a solution to address bird mortality issues due to higher bird weights and densities in older, underventilated broiler chicken barns.
The initiative of raising replacement heifers from birth to their first lactation is a major, yet often overlooked, component of a profitable dairy operation.
As temperatures rise starting in April and May, humidity can follow. This combination of temperature and humidity can impact your dairy herd. The temperature-humidity index (THI) is an indicator of when heat stress may occur.
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