To remain free of foot-and-mouth disease, Canada is blocking livestock, uncooked meats, raw dairy and other products from Greece following outbreaks in cattle and sheep there.
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Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease
Manitoba dairy farm first in Canada to pilot epigenetics herd tool
U.K.-based Antler Bio is adapting human medical diagnostics for livestock, starting with a crossbred dairy herd in Manitoba
Antler Bio's EpiHerd platform is being tested on a Manitoba crossbred dairy herd.
Producers must tread carefully when food fads come calling
Editorial: Recent changes to milk pricing are just one example of how food fads trickle back to the farm
Canada’s farmers can’t afford to farm the fads but would still do well to observe changing consumer behaviours for common threads throughout, Laura Rance writes.
Dairy farmers look to limit more loss of market
Trade tensions with the U.S. over Canadian milk continue, with Americans still concerned about tariff rate quota administration
Canadian dairy farmers have given up 18 per cent of domestic market in recent trade deals, want government to hold the line in a CUSMA review.
Plan toward better calves for healthier, more profitable dairy herds
Early nutrition, colostrum quality and preventive care are transforming calf health, herd longevity and bottom-line results
Improved colostrum management, nutrition, and prevention-first health calf programs are boosting herd profitability, efficiency, and milk production.
Canadian farm milk price changes to reflect growing protein demand
The changes will encourage more production of protein versus butterfat
Protein demand is growing, so the provincial boards that set how Canadian dairy farmers are paid are changing how much protein is emphasized in milk pricing.
Farm trade policy pundits lay CUSMA odds
What’s the future of Canada’s free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico? Policy experts try to read the stars on the issue
What’s the future of Canada’s free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico? Policy experts try to read the stars on the issue
Researchers stay on trail of bovine bird flu’s origin
A new discovery in the Netherlands, the first such finding outside the U.S., highlights the need for ongoing vigilance and risk assessment
Canada’s dairy cattle herd is so far spared from avian flu, and work continues to contain its spread in the U.S., but the disease is far from gone.
Big changes ahead for dairy market
Dairy consumers put bigger eyes on protein, while CUSMA review looms large for Canada’s dairy farmers
Dairy consumers put bigger eyes on protein, while CUSMA review looms large for Canada’s dairy farmers
The economic case for sending dairy cows to market younger
Keeping well-raised heifers and replacing cows before they’re at risk of disease will increase production
Keeping a younger, healthier dairy herd protects both cattle welfare and the dairy farmer’s milk profits, speaker says.