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History of your dairy, in a nutshell: I was raised on a dairy farm in the Drummondville area in the province of Québec.
In 1984, after high school, I started to work full-time on the family farm with my father, Fernand. At that time, we were milking almost only Canadienne cows.
In true Snoopy cartoon fashion, the story begins, “It was a dark and stormy night.” It was dark; the hydro went out the evening of Dec. 13, 2010, while dairyman Robert Noble was engaged in inseminating a cow.
Joe Krentz moved to British Columbia from Saskatchewan when he was 18 and began work in a sawmill. He and Loretta married in 1950, bought their farm in 1954 and started a dairy operation while raising their nine children.
There is nowhere Jill Hoeppner would rather spend her days than in the Cedarwal Farm dairy barn in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
“I know this is what I’m supposed to do,“ Hoeppner says.
When it comes to women holding equal partnership in a farm operation, Rose Keunen walks the walk and talks the talk.
Rose and her husband, Henry, immigrated to Canada in 1997.
As the fifth generation to grow up on Maple Holme Farms in Carp, a village just outside of Ottawa, Emma Caldwell developed a lifelong love of two things – art and cows.
For our inaugural issue focused on women in the dairy industry, Progressive Dairyman asked a few industry professionals to open up about their opinions about a dairywoman’s role in the industry today.
Oceanbrae Farm got its start back in 1923 when John and Vera Barrett purchased 165 acres near Belmont, Prince Edward Island.
Their son, Keith, later took over, introducing the first Dual Purpose Shorthorns in 1950.
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