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Over the past few months, we’ve shared insights from this program on topics such as locomotion, nutrition and social housing for calves. One key topic remains: pain mitigation.
This article, from researchers from the University of Montreal and Lactanet, aimed at quantifying the impact and disability weight (DW) of frequent diseases or syndromes of preweaning dairy calves using the perceptions of producers and veterinarians.
Every year Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) invests in scientific research to advance the future of the dairy industry. In 2024, DFC invested $2 million in human nutrition and health, as well as dairy production research, along with an additional $7 million leveraged through grant opportunities and partnerships.
This article, from researchers from Michigan University and DeLaval, aimed to assess the impact of a training session on dairy farmworkers’ understanding of the milking routine, behavioural changes during milking and subsequent effects on milk quality and udder health.
Type 2 diabetes affects 11% of Canadian adults – roughly 3 million people – and costs nearly $20 billion annually. As a significant public health concern, the disease is influenced by genetics and lifestyle, with diet being one of the most modifiable factors in reducing diabetes risk.
This article from researchers from the University of Guelph is a literature review discussing insights and knowledge gaps linking health disorders with different processes related to reproductive function.
Research on dairy cattle welfare has increasingly focused on two critical areas: locomotion and housing. Drs. Dan Weary and Marina (Nina) von Keyserlingk have been investigating these issues. In a recent episode of the DFC’s research podcast series, they discussed the challenges of lameness detection, prevention and control and the importance of outdoor access for improving animal welfare.
This article from researchers from Ohio State University describes an experiment conducted to identify the factors that cause reduced production of cows fed a diet with high content of corn distillers grain with solubles (DDGS).
Calf welfare has been a key focus area of Drs. Dan Weary and Marina (Nina) von Keyserlingk’s industry research chair in animal welfare at the University of British Columbia. In a recent episode of the Dairy Farmers of Canada’s research podcast series, Paths to On-Farm Excellence, Weary and von Keyserlingk discussed milk feeding and group housing – two key elements of their research surrounding calf welfare and management.
This article from researchers from Cornell University and Germany describes the individual, seasonal and herd-level variability of colostrum production and summarizes the association between animal individual factors – such as parity, sex of the calf, calf birthweight, as well as indicators of the cow’s metabolic status – and the yield and composition of colostrum.
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