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New dairy plant will churn out butter, other products

As demand for butter fat continues to grow, Western Milk Pool to eliminate SNF/BF ratio

By Shannon VanRaes November 3, 2017

Manitoba dairy producers will no longer have to ship milk across provincial borders, thanks to an increased processing capacity at home. The $100-million MDI dairy-processing plant is up and running in Winnipeg’s South End, increasing Manitoba’s dairy-processing capacity by about 40 per cent. The 80,000-square-foot retrofitted egg-processing facility will now process 180 million litres of

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Butter stocks drive eastern dairy quota increase

By GFM Network News, John Greig October 17, 2017

Increasing demand for dairy products — including a need to build butter stock — has meant a one per cent increasing in saleable dairy quota, and incentive days from November to March 2018, for eastern Canadian dairy farmers. The P5 dairy farm boards, representing Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, announced

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Eastern dairy farmers get big quota increase

By GFM Network News, John Greig June 20, 2017

The eastern Canadian provinces have approved a five per cent dairy quota increase — their largest one-time quota increase since the daily quota system was implemented in 1998. It will also be implemented quickly, on July 1. The five provinces — Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario — create quota policy

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Value shifts away from protein

Canadians continue to embrace fat in their dairy products, which creates a market imbalance

By Shannon VanRaes May 8, 2017

With more Canadians turning to higher-fat dairy products, dairy farmers are looking at long-term solutions for balancing production with consumer demand. “We want to satisfy this demand with Canadian butterfat or Canadian cream, but as you know, at this point we are all just trying to catch up with this marketplace,” said Brent Achtemichuk, Dairy

Stirling Creamery, which next month becomes part of dairy co-op Gay Lea Foods, is a sponsor of the butter sculpture displays at Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), including this sculpted butter tribute to city internet star Dead Raccoon TO. (StirlingCreamery.com)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Gay Lea to buy central Ontario butter maker

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 18, 2016

A U.S.-owned artisanal butter processor in central Ontario is set to become an arm of Ontario dairy co-operative Gay Lea Foods. Michigan-based butter producer Butterball Farms has agreed to sell Stirling Creamery, based at Stirling, Ont., north of Belleville, to Gay Lea effective Nov. 1. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, though Gay Lea

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy firms plan joint processing venture in Winnipeg

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 17, 2016

Manitoba dairy producers are expected to get a new outlet for their raw milk from a new joint venture to process butter and dairy ingredients in Winnipeg. Mississauga-based dairy co-operative Gay Lea Foods and ingredient processor Vitalus Nutrition of Abbotsford, B.C. on Monday announced a joint venture to be based at an unnamed “existing food

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy support price gets second bump of year

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 15, 2016

Facing depressed world prices for milk, Canada’s dairy farmers can expect a boost of about 2.76 per cent in their overall revenue from industrial milk sales starting Sept. 1. The Canadian Dairy Commission on Friday announced an unusual second increase this year in the support prices it sets for butter ($8.0062 per kilogram, up from

Comment, Opinion

Marketing boards are failing Canadians

By Sylvain Charlebois May 3, 2016

Canada’s agriculture marketing boards are showing signs of obsolescence, forcing commodity groups to consider desperate measures. Certainly, given the economic conditions of the last century, forming marketing boards made perfect sense. Marketing boards and agencies were designed to sell agricultural commodities throughout Canada and to the world. They were also intended to protect farmers from

Replacing butter with vegetable oils might not be as healthy as originally thought.

Did you know?, News

Did butter get a bad rap?

It’s not health food, but butter may be healthier than other options  like high-linoleic acid oils

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 25, 2016

Butter might be better. Since the 1960s, consumers have been told to swap butter and other saturated fats with “heart healthy” options like vegetable oils high in linoleic acid. Now a re-examination of previously unpublished data from the study that first made that claim is casting doubt. Researchers at the University of North Carolina School

Comment, Dairy cattle, Poultry

The TPP attacks democracy and supply management

Increasing imports of U.S. milk would be blended with Canadian product

By Jan Slomp February 29, 2016

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is designed to entrench the interests of foreign corporations at the expense of our sovereignty and democratic processes. Its Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism gives foreign corporations the right to sue our government if they believe future profits will be reduced as a result of democratically enacted measures. ISDS puts

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Tag Archives Butter

New dairy plant will churn out butter, other products

Butter stocks drive eastern dairy quota increase

Eastern dairy farmers get big quota increase

Value shifts away from protein

Gay Lea to buy central Ontario butter maker

Dairy firms plan joint processing venture in Winnipeg

Dairy support price gets second bump of year

Marketing boards are failing Canadians

Did butter get a bad rap?

The TPP attacks democracy and supply management

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