Source: International Dairy Federation
Animal welfare is becoming increasingly important to farmers, consumers, and retailers. In this regard, the reliable assessment of welfare on dairy farms is a crucial step in herd management and farm assurance, but potentially also for...
Source: Farm & Food Care Ontario
Farm & Food Care Ontario elects 2020-2021 Board of Directors
Election of Farm & Food Care Ontario’s (FFCO) 2020-2021 executive took place yesterday. Moving to the helm of the organization is chair Bonnie den Haan,...
Dairy producers today are all faced with a common decision of which robot to purchase for their operation, due to the many options available in the marketplace. BouMatic believes achieving both operational continuity and efficiency for both the herd...
Bringing innovative knowledge, technologies, resources and collaboration to farmers’ kitchen table
Imagine a world where livestock producers have all the expertise and resources they need for decision making right at the farmhouse kitchen table.
This is a concept rapidly gaining...
Source: National Mastitis Council
Four graduate students will earn trip to annual meeting in Dallas
The National Mastitis Council (NMC) Scholars program offers four travel scholarships to full-time graduate students interested in controlling mastitis, promoting udder health and improving milk quality....
Check out the Dairyproducer.ca Twitter photo of the month:
Gerrit Herrema Young dairy/cashcrop farmer from southern Ontario. President of Durham Plowman's Association, VP of Durham West Junior Farmers.
"Calf barn’s last pour completed! Loving how this project is turning out!"
Twitter has...
Source: Dairy Processors Association of Canada
STATEMENT BY THE FOUR DAIRY PROCESSORS ASSOCIATIONS
Canada’s dairy processors, already hurt by lost business due to recent international trade agreements and COVID-19, are warning the federal government that the continued viability of...
A significant portion of Canadian farmers have had an incident resulting in an injury or close call on their operation, but these accidents don't necessarily change behaviour, according to a recent survey by Farm Credit Canada (FCC).
“It’s unfortunate that...
Source: National Farm Animal Care Council Code of Practice for the care and handling of farm animals
Like other Codes in development, work on the Livestock and Poultry Transportation Code of Practice is continuing, albeit under conditions that were completely...
Source: Maizex
Some very cold planting season temperatures have growers anxiously awaiting corn emergence. Generally speaking, it takes 150 to 180 crop heat units (CHUs) to get corn from planting to emergence. Soil texture and moisture content, residue cover, sunshine...
