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Dairy Farmers Decide On New Digs

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Manitoba milk producers are going to have a new home. Dairy Farmers of Manitoba has decided on a new 15,800-square-foot office building to replace the current 22-year-old one located in south Winnipeg. DFM’s annual meeting last week passed a resolution to construct a new $5-million facility to house the milk board’s office, warehouse and milk-testing
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

Lameness Causing Major Losses In Dairy Cattle

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Asilent epidemic which has nothing to do with disease is injuring Canadian dairy cattle and costing milk producers millions of dollars annually. Chronic lameness is widespread in dairy herds throughout Canada and damage from it is far greater than realized, according to a British Columbia dairy scientist. “It’s a serious, serious problem,” Jeffrey Rushen told
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Industrial Milk Supports To Rise Feb. 1

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Canadian dairy farmers can expect about a 1.5 per cent increase in perhectolitre revenue from industrial milk starting Feb. 1. The Canadian Dairy Commission on Friday rolled out the increases for support prices for butter and skim milk powder to take effect Feb. 1, 2011. “The current situation is that farm revenues are lagging behind
Dairy cattle, Livestock

More Milk From Fewer Cows

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How do you get more from less? Ask the Canadian dairy industry. Since 2005, the number of dairy farms in Canada has fallen by 15 per cent. The number of cows is down 3.7 per cent. But the annual volume of milk produced has increased 3.6 per cent over the past five years, according to
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Bernie PeetPeet On Pigs – for Oct. 21, 2010

Feeding sows ad lib during lactation results in higher feed intake, boosting piglet weaning weights and improving reproductive performance in the subsequent parity, says Dr. Malachy Young, a nutritionist with Gowans Feed Consulting. “Advances in litter size and changes in the sow’s genetics have created new challenges in feeding lactating sows, which generally have lower
Hogs, Livestock

Feeding Sows Ad Lib Boosts Piglet Weaning Weights

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Young’s own research (Table 1) showed that more than four per cent of all sows ate less than four kg and 17.5 per cent ate less
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Farm Numbers Shrinking

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The number of dairy farmers in Manitoba continues to fall rapidly. The province currently has 354 registered milk producers, seven per cent fewer than in 2009-10, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. The rate of loss is steeper than in the two previous years. The number of producers declined by four per cent in 2008-09
Dairy cattle, News

Quota Levy Still A Mystery

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Confusion still reigns over a new surcharge on quota sales for milk, eggs and poultry six months after the Manitoba government announced it. The two per cent levy is still not in effect and producers remain in the dark over how the province will implement it. “There is very, very little information on how it

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