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The dairy sector is debating whether focusing on rBST use in the U.S. is the best way  to quash consumer interest in imports

By Shannon VanRaes October 19, 2015

The prospect of more imported dairy products flooding into Canadian dairy markets has local dairy farmers debating a tricky conundrum. How do they position themselves to compete on the basis of quality without fearmongering over production practices south of the border? American producers use recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) to boost milk production, which has never

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

EU dairy farmers get rude awakening in post-quota market

By GFM Network News, Gus Trompiz August 28, 2015

Paris | Reuters — European dairy farmers caught out by a global market decline as they emerge from a 30-year-old quota system may have little choice but to produce at full pelt, hoping for a recovery in international prices next year. Milk prices paid to EU farmers are down 20 per cent from last year

Discount retailers’ success in Britain has led established grocery firms to cut prices for certain basic produce. (Aldi.co.uk)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

U.K. farmers fear financial ruin from low milk prices

By GFM Network News August 11, 2015

London | Reuters — British farmers warned Monday they were facing financial ruin, with falls in the price of milk forcing many out of work and spurring others to blockade distribution centres and walk cows through supermarkets. Farming unions from across the country were meeting in London to urge the government to provide more help

Dairy cattle, National news, Poultry

Trans-Pacific Partnership talks worry dairy farmers

Foreign supplies want access to Canadian markets

By David Ljunggren July 2, 2015

Canada’s powerful dairy industry expressed concern June 26 that it could suffer if talks to create a Pacific trade treaty open up heavily protected Canadian markets to more foreign competition. Some of the 12 nations taking part in negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want Canada to start dismantling supply management, which protects dairy, egg

Dairy cattle, News

Buy out dairy quota with a retail price premium?

A former Liberal MP and a University of Calgary researcher are calling for an immediate phase-out of quotas

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 24, 2015

Drop the price of milk to the U.S. level, but then add a temporary premium to compensate dairy farmers for the loss of their quota. That’s the plan proposed in a July 10 Globe and Mail opinion piece by Martha Hall Findlay and Jack Mintz of the School of Public Policy at the University of

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Local news

Consumers top of mind in new dairy program

Four years' worth of funding has been provided to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba to hire and train staff for ProAction program

By Shannon VanRaes October 20, 2014

It’s an initiative that will bring together on-farm food safety, sustainability, milk quality, biosecurity and more. ProAction — a nationwide accreditation program for dairy producers — aims to consolidate a wide variety of best management practices together under one umbrella, something industry representatives believe will streamline auditing and inspection processes for farmers. “We’re trying to

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

ProAction aimed at quantifying quality

Piles of paperwork won’t be the result of a new program that tracks dairy practices and biosecurity, as efficiencies are sought

By Shannon VanRaes November 14, 2013

Manitoba dairy producers are pushing ahead on a national initiative to distinguish Canadian milk products as being among the best in the world. The new initiative, called proAction, will encompass the Canadian Quality Milk program, as well as issues related to animal care, biosecurity, traceability, and environmental sustainability. It will also allow for concrete measurement

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Dairy farmers shoot back at critics

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 15, 2012

With their system of revenue under renewed jabs from various angles, Canada’s dairy farmers have compiled their retorts into a new online campaign. Dairy Farmers of Canada on Feb. 1 launched a website dubbed YourMilk.ca, which organizes the case for the country’s dairy industry into three sections: one on the industry’s benefits to the public,

Dairy cattle, Livestock

New Fluid Milk Price Formula Aims For Stability

By Shannon VanRaes October 27, 2011

CO-OPERATOR STAFF / PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE Dairy producers will begin using a new pricing formula for fluid milk this February. The new formula relies on two components; cost of production and the consumer price index, each weighted at 50 per cent. Under the current three-factor formula, consumer price index was 30 per cent of the

Dairy cattle, News

DFC Elects New President

July 21, 2011

British Columbia dairy farmer Wally Smith was elected president of Dairy Farmers of Canada at the organization’s annual conference in Winnipeg July 13. Smith, who hails from Chemainus, B.C., replaces outgoing president Jacques LaForge, who retired after seven years at the helm. Manitoba producer David Weins joined Ron Versteeg, Marcel Groleau, Ron Maynard on the

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

Prairie forecast: Plenty more chances for snow over Holidays

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