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.

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

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

The TPP attacks democracy and supply management

The TPP attacks democracy and supply management

Increasing imports of U.S. milk would be blended with Canadian product

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is designed to entrench the interests of foreign corporations at the expense of our sovereignty and democratic processes. Its Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism gives foreign corporations the right to sue our government if they believe future profits will be reduced as a result of democratically enacted measures. ISDS puts


"This is leaps and bounds for us. It's a huge step to growing our business." – Lisa Dyck

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

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

“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

Government expropriation of dairy ‘assets’ requires compensation

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

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


Two miles of the Joubert Creek running through their farmland is now fenced off, plus the Heeses have done other farm upgrades to reduce nutrient run-off and improve the health of the watercourse that feeds into the Rat River. The farm today is home to two generations of Heeses including Eric Heese (pictured) who farms with his son Nicholas.

Grunthal-area dairy farm a model for water quality protection

Conservation Champions: The Heese Dairy Farm along the Joubert Creek was recognized by the Manitoba Conservation District Association in 2014 for its work in riparian restoration

After farming for five generations and more than 80 years along the Joubert Creek, the Heese family knows a thing or two about the health and quality of the watercourse than transects their land. The Grunthal-area dairy farmers have farmed alongside the river since the mid-1920s when the patriarch, Dietrich Heese, moved his family from

Federal government reviews TPP compensation to dairy sector

Federal government reviews TPP compensation to dairy sector

Will the new government follow through on Conservative promises to toughen border controls on milk substitutes and ban imports of milk from cows treated with the rBST?

Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland’s statement that the federal government is reviewing the $4.3-billion dairy compensation package announced by the former government as part of its Pacific trade deal doesn’t alarm Dairy Farmers of Canada. A review “makes sense if the government is going to consult Canadians about the impact” of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Yves Ruel,


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.

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

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

Editorial: Positioning to thrive

Editorial: Positioning to thrive

Canada’s dairy farmers are wise to tread carefully as they consider how to position their industry in the face of rising imports due to trade and technology. The oh-so-tempting reaction that comes immediately to mind would be to seek replacement of the sector’s protective tariff wall, which is gradually being eroded, with a non-tariff barrier


Selling the Blue Cow logo to consumers

Selling the Blue Cow logo to consumers

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

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

Is TPP the beginning of the end for supply management?

Is TPP the beginning of the end for supply management?

The NFU fears the new TPP deal but a University of Manitoba economist says it doesn’t go far enough

The National Farmers Union (NFU) predicts the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is the beginning of the end for supply management while claiming prospects for export agriculture are “illusory.” But Ryan Cardwell, a University of Manitoba agricultural economist, says the deal announced earlier this month doesn’t go far enough to end higher costs for dairy, eggs, chicken