INDUSTRY NEWS

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

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.

Stuck on what to get your favourite dairy farmer? We reached out to our editorial advisory board and a few other farmers we know for some suggestions of what they’d like to see under their Christmas tree this year.

Eating a big turkey dinner, served with pie and all the fixings, alongside family members and loved ones tends to go hand in hand with Christmas. John Miller says his family’s Christmas traditions are no different.

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.

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.