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Women have been an integral part of the dairy industry for a long time. After watching my own mother tame a number of wild barn cats, I would guess that women were probably involved in domesticating the cow.
It wasn’t an easy start for Amanda O’Connell and her soon-to-be husband, Jason. (They married in 2008.) The young couple was talking about starting farming and had considered dairy sheep or beef cattle as options, but the family dairy farm drew them back to cows.
The cartoon featured a man and wife sitting upright in their bed with the man holding a pitchfork – and a Holstein cow between them. The caption reads: “Honey, you love your cows more than me!”
Who wouldn’t love to find a unicorn in their back field or capture the Loch Ness Monster frolicking in the water on your new high-definition video camera?
When I was asked recently to write an article about my successes in leading in a non-traditional role, I really had to take a step back; as director of product supply for Canada and lead for the Regina manufacturing and distribution facility, I had never really considered that this is what I was doing.
Non-salable milk is normally used to feed calves. Non-salable milk is usually defined as excess colostrum, non-salable transition milk, mastitic milk or non-salable antibiotic-treated milk.
The first part of a calf’s life is spent as a monogastric, as the rumen is not fully developed at birth. As such, calves rely heavily on nutrients obtained from milk and, to a lesser degree, on nutrients from solid feed in the first few weeks of life.
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