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Listowel, Ontario veterinarian Dr. Kelly Barratt was the 2021 recipient of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners’ (AABP) award for Bovine Practitioner of the Year.
On a September afternoon in 2017, Peter Ruiter’s lunch break was interrupted by a neighbour who brought news no farm ever wants to hear: His barn had caught fire and his cows were in trouble.
Imagine you have the power to monitor every aspect of your farm business; profitability, production, animal health, culling, reproductive success is all there, and it’s divided into specific metrics to help paint a picture of where your farm’s problems may lie.
Dairy farming is a challenging business to enter. The financial commitment needed to acquire quota, facilities, milking equipment and animals is prohibitive for most individuals without a family farm to buy into.
Romanticized visions of farming and rural life, along with views of a traditional farm family, can seem rather antiquated; however, if there were ever a modernized portrait of the idyllic family farm life, the Coddington family is it.
My great-grandparents, Charles and Marie Labrie, arrived here in the late 1890s and began Ferme Charluson Inc., located in Saint-Cyprien, part of the Lower Saint Lawrence region of Quebec, in 1901.
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