NEWS

This year’s edition of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show, the largest farm show in eastern Canada, will feature multiple field demonstrations, speakers and over 750 exhibitors.

“The high-fertility cycle: How timely pregnancies in one lactation may lead to less body condition loss, fewer health issues, greater fertility and reduced early pregnancy losses in the next lactation.”

Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has received an international recognition from Unilever for its commitments towards sustainable milk production practices.

The Canadian dairy industry will enter the 2019-20 dairy year having experienced a very stable and slow-growing 2018-19 dairy year, with monthly total quota levels (fluid and industrial milk) mostly ranging between about 30 to 33 million kilograms.

Results from a five-year NSERC industrial research chair on infectious diseases of dairy cattle led by Dr. Herman Barkema of the University of Calgary will help farmers improve the management of dairy animal health to prevent, manage and treat dairy cattle for Johne’s disease (JD) and mastitis for a more profitable and sustainable dairy sector.