Insights and Stories of John Greig

Mar. 28, 2025 at 10:57 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Setting protocols on farms can benefit family and staff, but they don’t always get done. Now a Canadian company is using artificial intelligence to create those protocols for you. CATTLEytics, a company which helps livestock and mainly dairy farmers manage data, created the module for protocols in […]

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Feb. 21, 2025 at 9:30 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Feeding cows to entice them to visit milking robots has been a best practice since cows started being milked automatically in Canada about 25 years ago. Farms are questioning that rule and getting their cows to milk well without supplementing them in the robot. There are several […]

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Jan. 17, 2025 at 10:26 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Claynook Farm has charted its own course over the years, in buildings and in the elite genetics of its cattle. The Wagler family at Claynook started milking in a cross-ventilated robotic-milking barn about a year ago and held an open house for the industry on Dec. 14, 2024 at […]

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Dec. 27, 2024 at 2:04 pm CST

A pan-Canadian research project will try to understand more about how methane is generated in the rumen of beef and dairy cattle.

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Nov. 15, 2024 at 12:11 pm CST

A partnership between McDonald’s and Syngenta in the United States will pay beef producers to use Enogen corn, which will improve the feed efficiency of cattle and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

By John Greig