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"We had to cover all the ‘what-if’ scenarios,” says John Schenkels (r) with new partners Jim (l), and Kyle Beckwith.

Pooling resources

Three farms each faced its own reasons preventing it from making major investments for the future. Then they had a new idea

By Kim Waalderbos March 24, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes There can be points in a farming career where you’ve established a solid business but you hesitate to make any further major investments unless there is either a clear successor or a plan to transition out. That’s the point at which John Schenkels of Schenkels Farms Inc. in Miramichi, N.B., had found himself. Since taking […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Saputo to shut two dairy plants in East

By GFM Staff February 7, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian dairy processing giant Saputo, in a move it describes as “right-sizing” its manufacturing footprint, plans to close two of its plants in Eastern Canada within a year. Montreal-based Saputo said Thursday it will close the former Riverside Cheese and Butter plant at Trenton, Ont. this September and its Baxter dairy plant at Saint John, […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Agropur pulls milk over sanitizer residue concerns

By GFM Staff January 27, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes A case of “discomfort” reported by one consumer has led North America’s biggest dairy co-operative to pull certain batches of milk from sale in Quebec and Ontario. Agropur on Friday announced a voluntary recall of certain bagged and cartoned milks made at its Ottawa processing plant and sold under the Sealtest and L’ecole c’est nourrissant […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Ben + Jerry’s says ‘happy cows’ lawsuit should be put to pasture

By Jonathan Stempel January 14, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Ben + Jerry’s said it does not deceive consumers by saying it used milk and cream from “happy cows” to make its ice cream, and that an environmental advocate’s lawsuit claiming otherwise should be dismissed. In a Monday filing seeking to end the proposed nationwide class action, Ben + Jerry’s said James Ehlers […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Gay Lea buys northern Ontario cheesemaker

By GFM Staff December 3, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario’s first producer of verified-grass-fed butter and cheeses is set to become part of the province’s biggest dairy co-operative. Gay Lea Foods said Monday it has completed a deal to buy Thornloe Cheese from its current owner, Guelph-based dairy genetics firm EastGen, for an undisclosed sum. Thornloe Cheese on its website says the business takes […] Read more

Owen Fijala of Manitoba was only 16 years old when he set his sights on dairy farming.

Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Early days

How young is too young to make major farm decisions? Meet Owen Fijala, and get ready to rethink your assumptions

By Angela Lovell June 12, 2019

Reading Time: 11 minutes Just like any farm kid, Owen Fijala grew up helping out on the family grain farm near Manitou in south-central Manitoba. Things got a bit different, though, when he got a part-time job helping out a neighbouring beef farmer and he began to get interested in livestock production as well. He’d kept his eyes open, […] Read more

Scooter LaPrise, 53, herds his cows into the milking parlour for the morning milking at EMMA Acres dairy farm, in Exeter, Rhode Island, U.S., 7 April, 2018. Scooter shouts “Come on, Ladies!” as he directs his cows from their stalls into the milking parlour. Scooter with his wife has about 30 cows on one of eight remaining dairy farms in Rhode Island.
Photo: Reuter/Oliver Doyle

Dairy Cattle, Reuters

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

By Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel October 26, 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutes Madison, Wisconsin/St. Claude, Manitoba | Reuters – Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century. With U.S. milk prices in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply, Fritsche, 58, is unsure whether […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Reuters

U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

By Humeyra Pamuk October 25, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters – U.S. milk producers asked the government to increase aid payments to the industry to offset losses from foreign tariffs, saying dairy farmers have lost more than $1 billion in income since May. The administration of President Donald Trump in late May announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Ontario to host plant for U.S. lactose-free milk maker

By Country Guide Staff June 6, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes A lactose-free milk brand distributed by Coca-Cola will be produced at a new dairy processing plant to be built at Peterborough, Ont. by early 2020. The facility’s first product will be Fairlife Ultrafiltered Milk, a lactose-free product billed as providing 50 per cent more protein and 50 per cent less sugar than traditional milk. Canada […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

After milk quotas

French dairy farmers look for a way ahead after Brussels gives up the European supply management system

By Nicolas Mesly April 13, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute French dairy farms are in turmoil. France is the second-largest dairy producer in the European Union, and for the past 30 years, governments there had used quota to tie milk production to assigned farm regions. But then Brussels pulled the plug on the EU quota system in 2015, and now decisions about where and how […] Read more

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Pooling resources

Saputo to shut two dairy plants in East

Agropur pulls milk over sanitizer residue concerns

Ben + Jerry’s says ‘happy cows’ lawsuit should be put to pasture

Gay Lea buys northern Ontario cheesemaker

Early days

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

Ontario to host plant for U.S. lactose-free milk maker

After milk quotas

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