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What does the new dairy research mean for us?

Eventually there could be new recommendations on dairy consumption

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Want milk!” exclaimed the little voice in the early hours of morning. By the time he was a toddler, our son knew exactly what he wanted to quench his thirst. He had whimsical dancing farm animals adorning the walls of his nursery. I guess when the morning light illuminated his room, the smiling cows reminded
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Marketing boards are failing Canadians

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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
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Dairy cattle, Local news

Lack of processing capacity leaves Manitoba milk producers short

More butterfat means more skim milk, which means Manitoba dairy farmers 
need access to more processing capacity

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An imbalance in processing capacity has left Manitoba dairy farmers unable to fully use the province’s quota allocation. Speaking at a recent producer meeting in Steinbach, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba chairman David Wiens said the organization is working with processors and creating a new class of milk designed to increase investment in the province, while
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Dairy cattle, News

Provinces creating new dairy class

The move is seen as a proactive strike against cheap imported milk proteins

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Anew initiative by Ontario milk producers could help to slow the growing flood of milk protein imports undermining the Canadian dairy industry. Dairy Farmers of Ontario has implemented a new class for dairy ingredients which will allow processors to get competitively priced milk protein concentrates domestically instead of importing them. The new milk class, known
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Dairy cattle, News

Grey market milk substitutes could see crackdown at Canada-U.S. border

U.S. processors are becoming adept at creating products that circumvent importation restrictions, critics say

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The federal government is promising the dairy industry a crackdown on surging milk substitute imports. NAFTA regulations exempt U.S. dairy producers from tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on milk protein products, giving them nearly unfettered access to the Canadian market for these products. They’re used mainly to make cheese, and the dairy industry says the U.S.
Winnipeg Galina Beilis is the owner of Dairy Fairy, a small-batch cheese company, making a traditional cheese at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Plant.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Winnipegger introducing a new ‘old’ cheese to the market

Dairy Fairy cheese maker Galina Beilis has eaten this fresh cheese since she was a child. Now she’s making a business producing and selling it

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Galina Beilis’s cheese might be new to Man­itoba, but as she’ll tell you, there’s really nothing new about it. The recipe is as simple as it is old. Farmers and villagers have been making it for centuries and it dates back to the discovery of milk going sour when you left it at a warm
"This is leaps and bounds for us. It's a huge step to growing our business." – Lisa Dyck
Dairy cattle, Local news

Manitoba ice-cream maker to share facilities at Notre Dame Creamery

Dairy farmer turned ice-cream maker 
Lisa Dyck has produced her gourmet 
ice cream at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Pilot plant until now

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Manitoba’s first on-farm milk producer turned food processor is making a big move as 2016 begins. Lisa Dyck, who launched Cornell Creme gourmet ice cream made from milk from her family’s Anola-area farm’s 120-cow dairy herd in 2013 is moving her production to the Notre Dame Creamery. She’s made her popular line of ice-cream flavours
Skim milk powder. (PelchGroup.com)
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Dairy support price gets boost starting Feb. 1

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Canada’s dairy farmers can expect a two per cent bump in their overall revenue from industrial milk sales starting Feb. 1 next year. Citing dairy producers’ increased costs of production, the Canadian Dairy Commission on Wednesday announced its support price of butter will increase effective Feb. 1 to $7.7815 per kilogram, from $7.4046 currently. Its
“Certainly there are benefits to reinvesting some of this money, but we also have to bear in mind producers on every farm in the country will be taking an economic hit.”
 – David Wiens
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Government expropriation of dairy ‘assets’ requires compensation

A resolution to pass on personal compensation in favour of market development was defeated

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It’s been called a handout, a subsidy and even a bailout. Proposed compensation for supply-managed commodities as Canada signed on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership has garnered much negative publicity, prompting some Manitoba dairy producers to put forward a bold proposal for farmers to reject cash payments. Instead, they want to see the money — should
Butter lovers are smiling because of better news about health, and 2014 consumption was almost six per cent higher than the previous five-year average.
Dairy cattle, News

Butter back in consumers’ good books

Once the bad boy of foods, butter is regaining its place 
at the table as consumers look to richer tastes

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Consumers are beginning to warm up to butter — again. After years of anti-fat admonishments, diets and fads, butter is regaining popularity, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. “It’s an amazing story, because years ago the medical profession said butter was bad for you,” said Henry Holtman, the organization’s vice-chairman. “Now that whole opinion has

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