Dairy cattle & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Grass Boosts Health, Cuts Need For Replacements

March 4, 2010

Researchers compared lameness rates and replacement rates between pasture-based and confinement operations in the United States and found that grass won on both counts. The confinement operations had health-related replacement rates of 40 per cent per year, according to Dan Undersander, a forage agronomist from the University of Wisconsin. That “incredibly high” rate costs money.

Dairy cattle, Forages, Livestock

Moo-Re Fibre Please, Say Cows

By Daniel Winters March 4, 2010

“Our concern is that in dairy rations, we have been feeding things that are too rich.” – DAN UNDERSANDER Everyone talks about the benefits of sowing alfalfa to boost pasture yields. But what about the upside to putting grass in a cow’s rumen? According to Dan Undersander, a forage agronomist from the University of Wisconsin,

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Cattle Farms On Landscape Reach Recorded Low

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 25, 2010

Young Farmers’ Programming Funded STAFF Meetings, workshops and information sharing for young farmers by way of the Canadian Young Farmers’ Forum will get $1.2 million in federal support over the next four years. The federal government on Sunday announced its funding commitment to the CYFF, which Jean-Pierre Blackburn, the federal minister of state for agriculture

Dairy cattle, News

Saudi Arabia Says Will Not Ban Dairy Exports

February 11, 2010

The Saudi government will not implement a recommendation by an advisory council to ban dairy exports, the kingdom’s agriculture minister said in an interview Feb. 2. The advisory Shura Council approved a recommendation Feb. 1 to ban exports of dairy products as part of the desert kingdom’s efforts to save water. “The government’s policy is

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Innovation, Trade Dominate Dairy Meeting

By Alex Binkley February 11, 2010

One surefire way to make dairy farmers squirm is suggest they consider exporting dairy products again. Sure they’re happy to sell breeding and cull cows outside the country but they don’t want to go anywhere near the international market for dairy products. Gilles Gauthier, Canada’s chief agriculture negotiator at the WTO, suggests that even with

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

New CAFTA Head Wants To Get Along

By Alex Binkley February 4, 2010

“I’m positive that with some discussion, we get a better understanding of each other. It works around here.” – STAN EBY Stan Eby hopes to replace the long-standing tensions between export-oriented farm groups and the supply-managed sector with a more positive relationship that respects the goals of both sides. Eby, a longtime Ontario cattle producer,

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Farmers Feeling Financial Squeeze

By Michael Hirtzer February 4, 2010

Lending by commercial banks may be less than desired, but farm banks are continuing to finance the sector even though some borrowers are not doing so well, an executive of a major U. S. agricultural bank said. Samuel Miller, senior vicepresident of agribusiness and food banking at Milwaukeebased M&I Bank, the seventh-largest U. S. farm

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

U. S. Cattle Herd At 51-Year Low

By Jerry Bieszk February 4, 2010

The cattle herd in the United States is at the smallest since 1959, a government report said Jan. 29, but the number was higher than trade estimates and still could weigh on prices. The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s semi-annual cattle inventory report pegged the U. S. herd at 93.7 million head as of Jan.

Dairy cattle, News

Value Chain Benefits Organic Milk Producers

By Lorraine Stevenson January 28, 2010

The farmers had the milk and the processor wanted new business. Between them, they forged a new business relationship for mutual benefit. In December 2008, the Manitoba Organic Milk Co-op (MOM), and Notre Dame Creamery launched Organic Meadow, a new line of Manitoba-produced and processed organic milk. The organic milk sold here had previously come

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Opinion

Marketing Board Or Private Club?

By Laura Rance-Unger January 21, 2010

Debate and controversy are nothing new to orderly marketing. Whether it is supply management, as in the case of dairy or poultry, or single-desk selling, as in the case of the Canadian Wheat Board, there is a legitimate discussion over whether the public good these systems generate outweigh their costs to personal freedom. There are

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