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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

By Shannon VanRaes November 6, 2015

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

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Positioning to thrive

By Laura Rance-Unger October 19, 2015

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

Dairy cattle, Livestock

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

By Shannon VanRaes October 19, 2015

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

Dairy cattle, News

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

By Allan Dawson October 16, 2015

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

News

Common cattle virus linked to breast cancer in women

A high percentage of women with breast cancer has been exposed to the bovine leukemia virus (BLV)

By University Of California October 6, 2015

Researchers with University of California, Berkeley, are exploring a link between a common bovine virus and breast cancer in women. In a study analyzing 239 tissue samples from women diagnosed with breast cancer, scientists found 59 per cent had been exposed to the bovine leukemia virus (BLV) compared to 29 per cent of tissue samples

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Opinion: Dairy farmers get (undeserved) bad rap during TPP negotiations

By John Morriss August 10, 2015

The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement involves 12 countries representing about 40 per cent of the world’s economy, but some of Canada’s national media coverage would have had you believe that there is only one issue holding it up — access to Canada’s dairy market. The Globe and Mail was the worst offender —

A milk and ochre paint mixture used 49,000 years ago at Sibudu, South Africa. Researchers used chemical analysis to determine the origins of paint flakes found on ancient stones.

Did you know?

Milk, paint, wild beasts and an ancient African mystery

People were making paint long before previously thought

By Ed Stoddard July 20, 2015

Around 49,000 years ago, someone in what is today South Africa mixed milk with ochre to produce a paint mixture. What the paint was used for remains unknown. But what is startling is that it was made earlier than the first previously known use of the paint — 47,000 years earlier. The mixture was preserved

Milk, citric acid, salt, rennet, a stainless steel pot and a thermometer are what you need to make your own cheese.

Recipe Swap

Say ‘cheese’ for a food science experience at home

Prairie Fare: Summer Vegetable Frittata

By Julie Garden-Robinson July 17, 2015

Mom, I want to learn to make cheese,” my 17-year-old daughter said. “Cheese?” I responded, wanting to be sure I heard her correctly. “I love cheese. I think it would be a good 4-H project,” she replied. She certainly knows how to get my attention and mentoring. I hadn’t made cheese since I taught basic

Comment, Dairy cattle

Canada needs a different tact in international trade

Instead of defending supply management it needs to attack competitors’ subsidies

July 7, 2015

Supply management polarizes opinions: defend the status quo or dismantle the system. Unfortunately, this masks important strategic choices with implications for the dairy industry and, by extension, Canada’s agri-food sector as a whole. Canada’s internal debate keeps the country on a defensive footing. It is time to get offensive by focusing on other countries’ agricultural

Dairy cattle, News

Buy out dairy quota with a retail price premium?

A former Liberal MP and a University of Calgary researcher are calling for an immediate phase-out of quotas

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 24, 2015

Drop the price of milk to the U.S. level, but then add a temporary premium to compensate dairy farmers for the loss of their quota. That’s the plan proposed in a July 10 Globe and Mail opinion piece by Martha Hall Findlay and Jack Mintz of the School of Public Policy at the University of

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

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