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Highlights from the 2024 Dairy Farmers of Canada annual general meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

August 21, 2024

The 2024 Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) annual general meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador featured two days of insightful speakers and engaged delegates. The topics included carbon markets, antimicrobial use and resistance, supply management’s place in a changing world, the power of the Blue Cow Logo and DFC’s value-chain relationship with the food service industry.


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Sustainability in Ag: From Conversation to Conversion

Where does the rubber meet the road for farmers seeking to be part of sustainability actions?
August 13, 2024

From consumer packaged goods (CPGs) and carbon-conscious conglomerates to even the Vatican, who hosted a ‘Climate Resilience” conference in May of this year, sustainability’s hold on economic, environmental, and societal discussions is tight.


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Progressive Events: Net-zero and protein substitutes hot topics at this year’s Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada

Specialists in livestock feed and nutrition gathered at the Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada to discuss strategies for net-zero emissions, sustainable dairy practices, trace mineral additives, and the competition between traditional and alternative proteins.
July 4, 2024
Emma Ohirko

At the annual Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada, conference speakers shared diverse perspectives on some of the most pressing issues facing the livestock feed industry, ranging from the emergence of lab-grown proteins to the quest for net zero and the role of trace mineral additives in sustainability.



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Dairy producers share their perspective on carbon accounting

Three Wisconsin producers discuss their involvement in Professional Dairy Producers’ Your Farm – Your Footprint initiative, which expanded their knowledge of dairy’s carbon footprint with metrics specific to their farms.
June 28, 2024
Jenn Coyne

The Your Farm – Your Footprint initiative is a unique program that meets the growing need of producers to know and understand their farms' carbon impacts and take charge of conversations about dairy sustainability.


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Carbon intensity in dairy: Measuring and managing for a greener future

Carbon intensity is a metric that puts all greenhouse gas emissions associated with an activity in terms of the amount of product generated. Knowing the carbon intensity of producing milk should be as familiar as knowing the herd's somatic cell count.
June 27, 2024
Bryan Stolzenburg

Just as financial indexes are used to gauge the overall health of an economy, many different metrics exist to express the relative impact of certain activities on the health of our climate. 



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Vermont farms work to reach ambitious carbon goals

Four Girls Dairy and Gervais Family Farms join Ben & Jerry’s in their Low Carbon Dairy pilot program to reduce emissions by 50% and increase farm resilience.
June 26, 2024
Jenn Coyne

Gervais Family Farms and Peter Rainville’s Four Girls Dairy are two of seven dairy farms in the U.S. participating in the multiyear pilot program aimed to reduce on-farm emissions by 50% from a 2015 climate baseline.


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Feed additives: The next frontier of the dairy industry’s sustainability journey

Feed additives can have a major impact on methane emissions. It’s not easy to incorporate to ensure consistent reductions while maintaining cow health and production, but it’s worth the effort.
June 25, 2024
Conor McCabe

Feed additives have been highlighted as the best way to reduce enteric methane emissions in the short term due to their ease of applicability in a dairy farm. Typically, additives account for less than 1% of a dairy cow’s diet, but they have a drastic impact on enteric methane – up to 30% on commercial farms.


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Carbon accounting opportunities for any size farm

Historically, only larger farms have had access to carbon credit development as a net source of revenue. However, with a changing regulatory landscape, opportunities for new project types – particularly for smaller farms – are arising to meet the demand for reductions within the supply chain.
June 24, 2024
Lauren Brown

To dairy farmers, carbon credits, or offsets, are best known in association with anaerobic digestion. These projects require big farms with significant amounts of manure and plenty of capital, resulting in credits sold to buyers outside of the dairy or even the food and beverage industries.


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DFC and Starbucks Canada join together to support a sustainable future for dairy

May 28, 2024

Farm Credit Canada's Dairy Sustainability Incentive Program returns with support from Dairy Farmers of Canada and Starbucks to reward the sustainability successes of farmers.


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Three pillars of sustainability in the dairy scope

Sustainability has three pillars: economic, environmental and social. Industry experts weighed in on each pillar's importance in the dairy industry's success and emphasized the importance of telling our dairy stories.
May 7, 2024
Matti McBride

Western Canadian Dairy Seminar selected “Empowered for the Future” as the theme for the March 2024 conference held in Red Deer, Alberta, and placed a heavy emphasis on sustainability throughout the event. Attendees heard from three experts on the pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental and social.


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