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Pierre Lampron, a dairy farmer from St. Boniface, Quebec, was elected president of Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) for a two-year term at the annual general meeting, July 18-19, in Edmonton, Alberta.
Western Canada’s Lakeland College at Vermilion, Alberta, recently opened its new, state-of-the-art Dairy Learning Centre. Described by former student Jake Vermeer as a huge upgrade to its predecessor, the new facility offers students greater opportunity to learn by doing.
Starch digestibility has been a popular subject among nutritionists and dairy producers fueled by some companies claiming higher digestibility from softer-textured kernels compared to harder kernels from higher test-weight hybrids.
Bedded pack barns are becoming increasingly popular in Canada, particularly systems in which the bedding is composted in the resting area. To ensure the composting is successful, however, it is important to understand the process and master the technique.
As a dairy producer, ensuring your calves have the best start to life begins before the calf is born. The care and nutrition you provide the cow while her calf is in utero can set that calf up for life.
The dairy cow is quite an extraordinary creature. Time and time again the record for highest milk production is broken, most recently by My Gold from Ever-Green-View Farms in Wisconsin with a mind-boggling 77,480 pounds (35,144 kilograms) of milk produced in a 365-day period.
Lameness is our dairy industry’s most visible animal welfare issue as well as being detrimental for cows’ longevity, reproductive performance and productivity. In addition, the dairy industry is faced with increasing pressures from the public to ensure our cows are well cared for.
Several different forms of animal monitoring equipment have been developed and adopted by dairy producers for use in lactating animals. Some of these same technologies have been put to use in other areas around the farm and it begs the question, “Does video surveillance have a place in the calf barn?”
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