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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

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Local news

Consumers top of mind in new dairy program

Four years' worth of funding has been provided to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba to hire and train staff for ProAction program

By Shannon VanRaes October 20, 2014

It’s an initiative that will bring together on-farm food safety, sustainability, milk quality, biosecurity and more. ProAction — a nationwide accreditation program for dairy producers — aims to consolidate a wide variety of best management practices together under one umbrella, something industry representatives believe will streamline auditing and inspection processes for farmers. “We’re trying to

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Opinion

A cause for dairy industry reflection

By John Morriss June 23, 2014

Milk is not just any food — as the first meal for humans and all fellow mammals, it is literally the giver of life, and as such has spiritual and even religious significance. We have special feelings about milk. One of the most successful advertising slogans in history was Carnation’s “From contented cows.” It connected

Dairy cattle, Livestock

The FarmQuest Project: Fanto Samake

A young producer from Mali discovers the challenges and opportunities of raising dairy cattle

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 29, 2014

As a young boy in Mali, Fanto Samake started out his herd with just three cattle. Samake sees the advantages other farmers have who raise cattle, but it doesn’t come without its own set of challenges. For instance, he can only milk his cows in the rainy season because there isn’t enough grazing pasture for them to produce

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Compensation good for all dairy producers

Nearly 600,000 litres of milk left the province and 300,000 more were discarded

By Shannon VanRaes April 14, 2014

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba has reached a settlement with Trans-Canada Pipelines following the explosion of a natural gas pipeline near Otterburne in late January. The fiery pipeline rupture left 4,000 homes and nearly 200 barns without heat. It also shuttered two dairy processors in the area — Parmalat in Grunthal and Bothwell Cheese in New

Did you know?, Livestock, News

Cows learn better with a buddy

Calves housed individually took longer to adapt to new things

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2014

Cows learn better when housed together, which may help them adjust faster to complex new feeding and milking technologies on the modern farm, a University of British Columbia study has found. The research, published in PLOS ONE, shows dairy calves become better at learning when a “buddy system” is in place. The study also provides

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Trade deal to hit dairy farmers hard

By Alex Binkley November 20, 2013

The Dairy Farmers of Canada estimates milk quota will have to be cut by more than two per cent,  and producers will collectively see an annual $150-million drop in income

The proposed trade deal with Europe could cost Canadian dairy producers $150 million a year in lost income, according to the Dairy Farmers of Canada. Details of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) are still being hammered out and it’s expected to be two years before the deal is ratified by the European Union’s

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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