Insights and Stories on Dairy Cattle

Jul. 11, 2014 at 12:00 pm CDT

How to keep farm and family together when you uproot after 170 years on the same ground Farm succession is never easy, but for the Johnston family, bringing the next generation into the dairy business has meant extra challenges. You might even say it has meant miles and miles of […]

By Helen Lammers-Helps

Jul. 8, 2014 at 6:38 pm CDT

Dairy co-operative giant Agropur is set to build its milk muscle in Western Canada with a $356 million play for Sobeys’ former Canada Safeway milk processing plants. Quebec-based Agropur and Nova Scotia-based Sobeys on Tuesday announced a “strategic partnership” agreement in which Agropur will buy the four plants, supply Canada’s […]

By Staff

Jun. 5, 2014 at 5:09 pm CDT

Reuters — Canada’s largest dairy producer, Saputo, still digesting a major purchase in Australia, is examining other possible acquisitions there and in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, CEO Lino Saputo Jr. said Thursday. In the U.S., potential acquisitions could cost less than $100 million to as much as $4 […]

By Rod Nickel

Jun. 5, 2014 at 3:08 am CDT

New Brunswick butter co-operative Dairytown Products is expected to become part of major Quebec dairy co-op Agropur by month’s end, now that Dairytown’s farmers have approved the deal. The two co-ops announced Wednesday that Dairytown’s “beneficiaries,” the province’s 206 active dairy producers, voted 99 per cent in favour of the […]

By Staff

Jun. 3, 2014 at 6:57 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. dairy farmers and milk processors on Wednesday threatened to oppose a Pacific trade deal if Japan and Canada do not agree to accept substantially more dairy imports. In a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative and Department of Agriculture, members of the National Milk Producers […]