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In dairy genetics and genomics … Lead: Dr. Filippo Miglior, University of Guelph and Canadian Dairy Network
Collaborators: D. Kelton, F. Schenkel, University of Guelph; D. Weary, University of British Columbia; and I. Rumbles, CanWest DHI
Sometimes I wish I didn’t have real-life examples of how I make mistakes, but my mishaps make good fodder for this column. Last harvest, I was the combine driver who backed into the fuel truck while I was unloading my auger for cleanout to move to the next field.
Imagine being awoken by a pounding at the front door. As you see an orange glow outside, your first thought is your son trying to wake you at sunrise. You most likely overslept since you were up until midnight checking on a cow in the barn.
Most people consider searching Craigslist for a bike, couch or even a roommate. Not many can claim that an advertisement on this website is how they began a career as a manager for a 500-cow robot-milking herd.
BIGDairyJPC Farms Inc. Mitchell, Ontario 155 milking cows Jamie Beaumont, partnering owner and harvest manager Murray Hutton, herd managerName the top three areas you focus on during forage harvest.
We are all aware of the increasing trend of dairy producers moving towards robotic milking. With increasing options for producers to choose from and increasing reliability and performance from milking robots, robots are no doubt now part of the mainstream.
Mark Ready has been trimming feet on Saskatchewan dairies for more than 20 years.
His hoof-trimming career started out on beef cattle and dairy show cows, but it since has evolved to serve the larger dairy herds near his home in Martensville. These days, Ready spends most of his time on dairies with 200 cows or more.
Semex is saddened to announce the passing of its 11th Millionaire Sire, R-E-W Buckeye.
Proven through Semex’s Premier young sire proving program in the U.S. in August 2005, Buckeye’s popularity was instantaneous, arriving as one of the world’s most popular BW Marshall sons and ranking No. 4 TPI.
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