By Mario Mongeon When visiting dairy farms, I am often surprised to see the number of heifers. In many cases, pretty much all females born on the farm will be raised and eventually milked. I... Read more
By Tarek Fatah One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual supplication uttered by imams at many mosques in Canada and around the world, just pr... Read more
By Patrick Meagher Is your government looking out for you? How has it handled the issue of neonicotinoids? These are insecticide-treated seeds that are on almost every corn and soybean see... Read more
By Gord Hawley The Ontario government under the leadership of Kathleen Wynne made good on its promise to create a new provincial pension plan for all Ontario residents who do not work for... Read more
Pasteurized colostrum is better for the calf, researchers say Raw milk? Not for calves By Robert Tremblay At the risk of offending readers by writing about colostru... Read more
By Maynard van der Galien When I was a youngster in the mid-1950s, we lived on a small farm that had a high rocky hill behind our house and pasture field. A mining company asked if they co... Read more
By Ian Cumming During the last two weeks of February, in an Ontario courtroom, lawyers prosecuting charges brought by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) hope to persuade a judge th... Read more
Canadas farm gate milk price drops 1 % as Europe ends quota system, increases milk supply By Sylvain Charlebois For the first time in 22 years, the Canadian Dairy Commi... Read more
By Jerry Agar Id like to ask Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne why my son should choose to set up his business in Ontario. He graduated in December from Texas Christian University in Fort Wo... Read more
By Patrick Meagher What are the things about people we really like? We could say its their good jokes or their good looks. It could be their charisma, or maybe its just that theyre fun... Read more
By Maynard van der Galien Waste and carelessness dont seem to bother some people. Every winter I see sparkling new, riding lawn mowers parked by the house. Its fairly common to see motor... Read more
By Parker Gallant According to the Globe and Mail, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says her province “is ready to shield Canada from the economic tsunami caused by declining oil price... Read more
By Ian Cumming Dad, farmer that he was, died just as he got up at milking time early on Tuesday morning Dec. 16. There wasnt his usual alarm clock beeping and feet instantly on the floor,... Read more
By Gord Hawley The Big Bang. That was the door slamming shut on 2014. Did you have a successful year? A profitable year? Did you reduce your debts? Did you increase your assets and net wor... Read more
By Robert Tremblay Staphylococcus aureus (SA, for short) is a well-known cause of contagious mastitis in cows. SA is difficult to diagnose because milk samples from cows infected with SA a... Read more
