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New Software Puts Cow Data Close At Hand

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“You amalgamate everything into one small handheld computer.” – ROGER HEEG You could say that whenever Roger Heeg walks through his dairy barn, he has the situation well in hand. Heeg uses a specially developed software program on a hand-held Smartphone – a BlackBerry, in this case – to keep tabs on his dairy cows.
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Federal Dollars Go Into Dairy Research

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Dairy Farmers of Canada plans to spend $11.7 million on research projects across the country that will focus on the health and nutritional benefits of dairy products and ways to improve animal productivity through health and breeding. The research money will be awarded to clusters of scientific and technical expertise at universities and agriculture schools
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Grass Boosts Health, Cuts Need For Replacements

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

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“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

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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, Livestock, News

Innovation, Trade Dominate Dairy Meeting

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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
Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Farmers Feeling Financial Squeeze

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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
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Manitoba Slow To Meet CQM Target

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“The clock is ticking.” – DAVID WI ENS, DFM Manitoba dairy farmers will have to pick up the pace to meet a registration deadline for a national milk quality assurance program. So far, only 40 per cent (146) of Manitoba’s milk producers have been fully registered under Canadian Quality Milk (CQM), a national on-farm food
Dairy cattle, Livestock

New Technology Touted To Fight Dairy Disease

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“We are one ‘60 Minutes’ report away from rules against either leukosis or Johne’s.” – MARK VARNER A recently introduced technology to predetermine the sex of dairy cattle could also be the key to eliminating infectious diseases in dairy herds. Sexed semen, in which sperm is sorted for gender, can help milk producers develop herds

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