Insights and Stories on Dairy Cattle

Continuous tie-stall housing to be phased out in new dairy code of practice

Mar. 31, 2023 at 7:32 pm CDT

New guidelines for dairy cattle care will improve animal welfare while also potentially increasing farm productivity, Dairy Farmers of Canada says. “I think that we’ve come to a very solid revised code,” David Wiens, DFC’s vice-president, said in an interview. The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) on Thursday released […]

New U.S. ag trade chief demands Canada broaden dairy quota access

Feb. 10, 2023 at 8:25 pm CST

By David Lawder

Saputo to consolidate U.S. cheesemaking, shut three plants

Feb. 9, 2023 at 1:58 am CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. seeks new dispute panel over Canadian dairy imports

Jan. 31, 2023 at 5:30 pm CST

By David Lawder

U.S. brings new Canadian dairy tariff rate quota complaint

Dec. 20, 2022 at 9:05 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Quebec ag ministry, UPA organize to round up rogue dairy herd

Nov. 30, 2022 at 4:44 am CST

Quebec’s provincial ag ministry and the Mauricie regional arm of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) are asking for the public’s patience as they organize a new effort to capture a herd of dairy cattle on the loose since the summer. Quebec media quoting dairy farmer Pierre Lapointe, the animals’ […]

By Dave Bedard

CUSMA compensation set for supply-managed sectors

Nov. 18, 2022 at 5:01 am CST

A final round of payments and programs for Canada’s supply-managed dairy and feather sectors — this time in compensation for the sequel deal to NAFTA — is now on deck for 2023 and beyond. Compensation to those sectors for domestic market concessions granted under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) was telegraphed […]

By Dave Bedard

Dairy commission fills board vacancy

Oct. 3, 2022 at 11:29 pm CDT

Concerns that the Canadian Dairy Commission could be caught short at its board table have been resolved with a new appointment to a vacant commissioner’s chair. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Sept. 27 announced Shikha Jain will be the CDC’s commissioner for a four-year term effective Sept. 15. Jain, […]

By Dave Bedard

Lactalis to shift from milk to near-milk at Sudbury

Aug. 10, 2022 at 7:00 pm CDT

The processor of the Beatrice and Lactantia milk brands plans to put its fluid milk processing plant in northern Ontario over to plant-based dairy substitutes. The Canadian arm of France’s Lactalis said Wednesday it will stop fluid milk processing and packaging at its plant at Sudbury effective Sept. 30 and […]

By Dave Bedard

Agropur cheese plant workers take deal, halt strike

Aug. 8, 2022 at 8:15 pm CDT

Milk delivery to a major cheese plant in Eastern Canada is expected to resume soon as unionized employees at dairy co-operative Agropur’s facility at Granby, Que. end a five-and-a-half-week strike. The plant’s 250-odd workers, represented by the Syndicat des salaries de la fromagerie — an arm of Centrale des syndicats […]

By Dave Bedard