Traditional animal monitoring systems can be cumbersome.

Researchers at the University of Alberta are in the process of developing a test that may allow dairy producers to test their cows for mastitis and receive the results in a matter of minutes.

Bart Op den Kelder started milking in Canada in 1999, after moving from the Netherlands with his family in search of greater opportunity in the dairy industry.

As the world’s population grows, demand for animal products is expected to rise as well. Developing countries are projected to have the biggest growth in demand for animal-based proteins, as their incomes begin to rise and urbanization intensifies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn many war-like comparisons, some of which are warranted, as many people have and continue to experience unprecedented changes to daily life.

Crossbreeding cows has become the new normal for Birkstead Holsteins in Elora, Ontario. Thomas Wantenaar and his family have been experimenting with Holstein crosses since the early 2000s, around the same time Wantenaar graduated university and began working on the farm full time. Of the farm’s 310 cows, only 55 are purebred Holsteins, the rest of the herd is a variety of Holstein crosses.

Crystal Springs Cheese lies on the corner of Range Road 222, nestled among the fields of the southern Alberta prairies.

Garrett Miller has worked as the dairy manager at Oakwood Dairy LLC in Auburn, New York, since 2009. Miller has been surrounded by dairy cows all his life. He grew up on his family’s small dairy farm and pursued his interest in dairy at Cornell University, graduating from their dairy management program in 2007.