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U.S. FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

Reading Time: < 1 minute Washington | Reuters – The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The suspension is another disruption to the nation’s food safety programs after […] Read more

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Sask. creamery turns ice cream dream into reality

Sometimes your childhood dream can come true — and turn a delicious profit

Reading Time: 8 minutes It all started with a scoop of blueberry cheesecake ice cream from a creamery in Sicamous, B.C., more than ten years ago. About 13 years old, John Pruim was on a family road trip back to the province where he had spent his early years when the taste of farm fresh ice cream stirred something […] Read more


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Dairy farm milk price drops for 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Dairy Commission announced Nov. 1, 2024 that a decline in feed prices and the stabilization of other costs on dairy farms across the country means that the benchmark on-farm price for milk will decline by 0.0237 per cent starting in February 2025.






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Pasteurization may not clear bird flu virus from heavily infected milk

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters – In raw milk samples spiked with high amounts of bird flu virus, small amounts of infectious virus were still detectable after treatment with a standard pasteurization method, researchers said on Friday. The findings reflect experimental conditions in a laboratory and should not be used to draw any conclusions about the safety of the […] Read more

“The farm economy is difficult ... We want to receive a fair return, not the crumbs we do.” – Marie-Andrée Raiche.

Summer Series: How to get disruptive

[Best Advice] On the Charbonneau farm, the business strategy seemed clear. Go vertical. But how?

Reading Time: 7 minutes Here’s how one Quebec dairy farm decided to take the proverbial bull by the horns and make their farm a vertical integration success despite the constraints of the industry.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Too often it seems we never hear the words “disruptor” and “Canadian agriculture” used in the same sentence. When we’re thinking […] Read more