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Thousands of litres of milk heading west

Demand for milk is up as dairy marketing takes hold

By Shannon VanRaes May 22, 2015

A combination of factors, including an increased demand for dairy products, has Manitoba’s dairy farmers shipping 75,000 litres of milk out of province every day. But changes to the province’s processing capacity have also played a key role, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba chairman, David Wiens. “Probably the biggest reason that that’s been happening

Opinion

Editorial: More to TPP than milk and eggs

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and what a deal could mean for Canadian producers

By John Morriss May 18, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement now under negotiation involves 12 of the world’s largest economies, and has been described as “NAFTA on steroids.” What’s holding it up? Canadian dairy farmers. Or so you’d think about reading some of the national and international media coverage. Some of it made us think of the coverage of

News

Raw milk dramatically increases risk for foodborne illness

Study says risk is 100 times greater than with pasteurized milk

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 8, 2015

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Maryland have released a study which says consumers are nearly 100 times more likely to get foodborne illness from drinking raw milk than they are from drinking pasteurized milk. In a release, the researchers said raw milk was associated with over half of all

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

How much protein do you need?

Prairie Fare: Slow-Cooker-Shredded Salsa Chicken Tacos

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 13, 2015

The other day, I was at the hair salon with my eyes closed and head propped over a sink. I was so relaxed that I was ready to take a power nap. Unfortunately, I could not help but overhear a discussion by strangers at the sink next to me. They were talking about their diets.

Research proves that he likes it better than the white stuff.

Did you know?

Rural kids like milk better (especially if it’s free)

School milk consumption dropped by almost half  when chocolate was not available

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 23, 2015

Kids drink more chocolate milk than regular milk when offered a choice, and rural kids drink more milk than urban kids when it’s offered free. That’s the conclusion of “Impact of the removal of chocolate milk from school milk programs for children in Saskatoon, Canada,” a paper published Jan. 14 in the journal Applied Physiology,

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Dairy support price trimmed starting March 1

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 15, 2015

Canada’s dairy producers can expect their overall revenue from sales of industrial milk to slip nearly two per cent starting in March. The Canadian Dairy Commission on Thursday announced it will snip the support price it sets for skim milk powder effective March 1 to $6.3109 per kilogram — down from the current $6.4754 —

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

China’s small dairy farmers dump milk as sector enters downturn

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News January 9, 2015

Beijing | Reuters –– Small dairy farmers in China are dumping milk and selling cows as demand from processors slows in a sharp turnaround from last year, when a scramble for supplies prompted a huge surge in milk powder imports. Slower growth in milk product consumption, higher yields from modern dairy farms and the excess

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Hot chocolate. Magic in a mug

The cure for homesickness (or other winter-related blues)  is really, really, really, good hot chocolate

By Lorraine Stevenson November 28, 2014

Food memories are vivid. We remember not just what we ate or drank, but the smallest details of when and where. Early winter recalls a year on a post-university, backpacking trip in Europe. As winter set in, the fun was over. Hostels were colder and emptier. I was homesick. Other young sojourners’ spirits were just

contestants in the Miss Milk Cow beauty contest

Dairy cattle, Did you know?, Livestock

Massage and mooo-d music soothe Vietnam beef cake beauty contestants

By Nguyen Huy Kham October 30, 2014

This year’s winner of the Moc Chau beauty contest has an American father while her mother is of Dutch and Cuban heritage. She’s also pregnant, which is fine with the judges since contestant 1386 is a four-year-old cow. The Miss Milk Cow contest has been an October fixture since 2004 in the popular backpacker destination

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba vice-chairman Henry Holtmann

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Local news

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba opens quota exchange

Dairy producers in Manitoba will soon be able to exchange unused production credits provided they meet certain criteria

By Shannon VanRaes October 21, 2014

Manitoba milk producers will soon have a public exchange for unused quota credits. “We’ve never done this in Manitoba, but the other provinces have always had those tools for their producers, so we’re trying to harmonize,” Henry Holtmann, vice-chairman of Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, told a meeting here last week. Currently, producers need to actually

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle fall

U.S. grains: Wheat sets fresh eight-week low as ample global supply continues to weigh

Larger Canadian canola and wheat ending stocks expected

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