A U.S. study shows highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in dairy cows can cause severe mastitis and costly decreases in milk production, possibly beyond just an infected farm’s clinical outbreak period.
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Avian flu has major economic costs for infected dairy herds
Research shows that mastitis and decreased milk production lasts well beyond the clinical outbreak period
Canadian Dairy Xpo: Consumer support for buying Canadian dairy rises
New Canadians also look to use dairy for nutrition and in cooking
The buy-Canada movement has helped boost support for Canadian dairy products, according to David Hudson of IMI International, speaking at the Canadian Dairy Xpo's Dairy Business Summit.
Calmer dairy waters predicted for 2024
Stresses from borrowing and feed costs should ease: FCC
A recent outlook released by Farm Credit Canada says there’s room for optimism in the dairy sector. “It has been a volatile few years for dairy producers, but 2024 is shaping up to be calmer — a return to a more normal environment, if you will,” FCC senior economist Graeme Crosbie said in a Feb.
Western Milk Pool marks concentration plant progress
The plant will be in Alberta, but Manitoba sector says a rising tide lifts them too
It’s unlikely any Manitoba product will pass through the milk concentration plant being built in central Alberta through the efforts of the Western Milk Pool, but the pool’s chair still counts it a win for the sector. Henry Holtmann, who is both WMP chair and heads the board of the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, said
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Lactanet embarks on LPI modernization process
Predictive production index has become cumbersome, complicated
Glacier FarmMedia – A long-standing tool for predicting the milk production performance of dairy cattle daughters will be “modernized” to make it more user-friendly and reflective of contemporary knowledge about feed efficiency. During Lactanet’s open industry session earlier this fall, chief services officer Brian Van Doormaal gave a presentation entitled “Modernizing LPI (Lifetime Performance Index)”
Bridging the gap for livestock data
Face of Ag: New professor says data science can provide significant value to animal science
A new professor at the University of Manitoba aims to turn data into dollars for Manitoba livestock producers. Gabriel Dallago has joined the Department of Animal Science as an assistant professor in digital livestock production. Dallago describes his research as being somewhere between animal and computer sciences. “What I do fits within that whole idea
Comment: Canada can fix its milk dumping problem
A recent viral video has given the nation’s dairy sector a public relations black eye
A video of an exasperated Canadian dairy farmer, Jerry Huigen, went viral last week. For probably the first time in Canadian history, a Canadian dairy farmer was filmed while discarding milk on his own farm. That video has now been viewed by almost 3 million people. It shocked many Canadians, who were wondering why this
Fonterra dairy group hikes 2023 earnings forecast on strong demand
New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group has raised its earnings forecast for fiscal 2023, citing strong demand and higher prices for its milk products, and said it expects a further boost if favourable conditions persist. The world’s biggest dairy exporter said it now expects to earn between 45 and 60 New Zealand cents per share in
Comment: The new 8.4 per cent milk
The Canadian Dairy Commission has a daily impact on most Canadians but operates with little oversight
Earlier this month the Canadian Dairy Commission announced that dairy farmers will get an unprecedented 8.4 per cent more for their milk, and more than 12 per cent for butter starting in February. It is the highest increase since the CDC was created in 1967. Provincial boards will need to approve these increases but that
Dairy farmers press feds on compensation promises, again
Canada’s dairy farmers are again calling on the federal government to make good on its promise to compensate producers, after giving up market share of the supply-managed industry to more foreign competitors through trade pacts. The Liberal government, most recently in its Sept. 23 speech from the throne, has told Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC)
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