Progressive Dairy staff pulled a list of our top 15 most popular articles, according to pageview metrics from Google Analytics, published between Oct. 1, 2020 and Oct. 1, 2021.

To celebrate the holiday season, we decided to round up some of the great cheeses Canada has to offer. Made on dairies across the country, here are 24 cheeses nominated by Progressive Dairy staff, readers and followers. The cheeses are presented in no particular order.

Here’s a list of our Top 10 most popular topic-based articles, according to pageview metrics from Google Analytics, published between Oct. 1, 2019 and Oct. 1, 2020. When possible, we reached out to the authors or sources featured for follow-up commentary.

In the past year, Progressive Dairy introduced you to over a dozen dairy producers and their farming operations.

At Dairy Farmers of Canada, farmers can download a new fact sheet called “Drying off cull dairy cattle at high production and in emergency situations.”

Preventing, managing and treating mastitis is a priority area of research for dairy farmers; it’s one of the costliest dairy cattle health issues on a dairy farm. A study published in 2018 by the Mastitis Network estimated losses associated with mastitis at $665 million per year or $660 per cow per year.

“The dynamic behavior of feed efficiency in primiparous dairy cattle.”Journal of Dairy Science Vol.103 No. 2, 2020. The objective of this study, done by researchers from the University of Guelph, was to integrate data collected using modern high-throughput biometrics (things like in-line bodyweight scales and body condition score cameras) to evaluate changes of early lactation feed efficiency (FE) on a daily basis.