Pheromone product FerAppease, which mimics the scent of a cow’s udder, may help boost cattle gains and immune systems by lowering calf stress during key periods.
Pheromone product promises to keep cattle calmer
FerAppease, which mimics the scent of a cow’s udder, may help boost cattle gains and immune systems
Top tips for successful dairy calf weaning
A step-down approach to weaning is critical, since today’s dairy calves consume more milk
Dairy calves weaned gradually are more likely to have greater gain, more feed consumption and fewer health issues than those weaned abruptly.
Scaling agriculture technology takes co-ordination
Ag tech report pitches routes to quick adoption, funding and success
Report says there are four areas where Canada can help boost agriculture technology advancement and adoption.
$7.9 million cattle research project aims to find rumen efficiencies
Cross-Canada project to reduce methane production will be led by UBC researcher
A pan-Canadian research project will try to understand more about how methane is generated in the rumen of beef and dairy cattle.
Separating silage for more milk and a cheaper ration
A dairy farm feeds the stover portion to dry cows and the rest to the milking herd
The Fodd silage separator, shown at World Dairy Expo 2024, was invented to separate rougher silage fractions from the higher starch portion, to feed dry cows and milking cows.
Mechanical innovation helps seed companies keep up with genetic testing speed
More sensors help collect field data faster and, combined with AI-based analysis, that can help fast-track variety development
Seed companies like Syngenta are using mechanical innovations to keep up with the speed of genomic testing, which they say will help fast track variety development.
McDonald’s to pay U.S. farmers for feed efficient Enogen corn use
The company is partnering with Syngenta to pay some farmers who use corn with the trait
A partnership between McDonald’s and Syngenta in the United States will pay beef producers to use Enogen corn, which will improve the feed efficiency of cattle and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Genomic tools should mean faster seed solutions
Gene editing could help find replacements as older genetic modification technologies develop resistance
New genomic tools like genome sequencing and the ability to stack genes through CRISPR gene editing mean that there will soon be solutions for farmers against crop pests.
Dairy farm milk price drops for 2025
The Canadian Dairy Commission announced Nov. 1, 2024 that a decline in feed prices and the stabilization of other costs on dairy farms across the country means that the benchmark on-farm price for milk will decline by 0.0237 per cent starting in February 2025.
Dairy farm milk price drops for 2025
The slight decrease is due to a decline in the cost of feed
The Canadian Dairy Commission set the farm-gate price for milk in 2025 at 0.0237 per cent lower than in 2024.
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