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(Dave Bedard photo)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Scotsburn ice cream business sale to Agropur cleared

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s biggest dairy co-operative has been given the all-clear to close its deal for an Atlantic dairy co-op’s ice cream business. Agropur Co-operative on Thursday announced it has bought the assets of Truro, N.S.-based Scotsburn Co-operative Services, which include the company’s plants in Truro and in Lachute, Que. as well as the Scotsburn brand name. […] Read more
Peter Gould, general manager and CEO, Dairy Farmers of Ontario. (John Greig photo)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Ontario dairy sector optimistic with expanding demand

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Ontario’s dairy industry is in a period of unprecedented growth, with over 15 per cent more quota going to dairy farmers in less than two years. There are almost certainly more quota increases to come, in order to increase milk production to displace significant volumes of butter now being imported. “It’s an absolutely great time […] Read more
You have to look at what makes sense ahead of you,” says Joan. “Life is full of so many changes, some you’re ready for, and some are unexpected.”
Beef Cattle, Guide Business

Dairy producer takes the next big step

Change Makers: As a couple, the Craigs’ decision to transform their farm and leverage new opportunities has opened up a new future

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Today’s farmers are change makers. Re-inventing our farms has become normal.  So Country Guide asked top ag journalists from across the country to interview farmers who excel at change, taking their farms in very different directions with an eye to finding their best opportunities. Their stories start with our January 2017 issue and will continue through […] Read more
"It was the best decision — having two separate businesses instead of sharing one,” says Steve, with Amanda on their farm, just down the road from the family operation.
Guide Business, Management

Generating farm independence

Sometimes, the best solution can be for the next generation to build a farm of their own

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Reading Time: 10 minutes The roads here are typical for this part of rural Ontario, running between neighbouring towns. On either side, at the end of long maple-sided lanes are well-kept dairy, beef and crop farms divided into 100-acre parcels, with red and black barns stamped proudly with farm names, usually family names. Occasionally too a lane is overgrown, […] Read more
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Livestock, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

California to limit pollutants from diesel exhaust to cow gas

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — California on Monday moved to restrict air pollutants from sources as diverse as diesel trucks and cow flatulence, the latest of several efforts in the most populous U.S. state to reduce emissions leading to climate change. Under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the state will cut emissions of methane […] Read more
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Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Australia competition watchdog to widen dairy investigation

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sydney | Reuters — Australia’s competition watchdog will launch a broad investigation into the country’s dairy industry, the country’s deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said on Thursday. The investigation comes after Australia’s largest dairy processor Murray Goulburn and New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group in April reduced their farm gate prices, or what they pay farmers […] Read more
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

EU livestock farmers get compensation

Dairy farmers receive funds to offset price slump after scrapping of quotas

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Brussels/Paris – Reuters — The European Union will grant an additional 500 million euros (C$721 million) to EU farmers struggling with a long-running crisis linked to low prices, notably in the dairy sector where it aims to reverse a boom in milk output after the scrapping of production quotas. European milk farmers have been struggling with […] Read more
Supply management gives income certainty to Blake Jennings.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business, Poultry/Eggs

Young farmers getting a head start

Among supply management’s successes are its programs to help young farmers get established

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Reading Time: 10 minutes “We’ve got a lot of young people coming in,” says Tim Lambert, CEO of the Egg Farmers of Canada. Like others, he credits board programs that give young farmers preferential access not only to quota, but to training in business leadership, and management. Yet underpinning it all, says Lambert, is income security. “They earn a […] Read more
dairy cattle
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Their quota of doubt

TPP may not have opened the floodgates, but it will let in enough imports to alter the outlook for Canada’s dairy farmers

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It would have taken a lot more than a butter knife to cut the tension on dairy farms across Canada this past year while the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiators were talking behind closed doors. So now that the deal is out in the open, and now that it appears — at least on the surface […] Read more
Ian and Vicki Mayberry of Mayberry Hill Farm.
Guide Business, Livestock

A goat dairy looks to maximum potential

Once they reached the farm size they wanted, Ian and Vicki Mayberry have found ensuring it is sustainable takes skill, and self-awareness

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Reading Time: 7 minutes For many farmers, there’s a belief that you have to “Go big or go home.” Yet Ian and Vicki Mayberry take a different approach on their farm near Ingersoll, Ont. They like the size they’re at with 170 milking goats plus offspring, so instead of expanding they are looking to maximize production with their current […] Read more

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