Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) welcomes the compensation announced in early November by the federal government to mitigate the impact of concessions made under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

This may sound strange, but as I get older, I look forward to Christmas more each year.

The jingle and jangle of Christmas is in the air. Shoppers scan the internet, duck in and out of shopping centers, rack their brains and check their wallets looking for the perfect gifts to give on Christmas morning to make the holiday magical in the economic downturn.

Throwing grain at people, scary goats, large bears and vampires. It probably doesn’t get talked about enough just how serious Romania takes Christmas.

Mankind owes a lot to the cow. The first animal to be domesticated, humans began capturing the large and aggressive auroch 10,000 years ago and selectively breeding it for more docile behavior.

I spent a lot of time traveling around this past year, and I need to share some of what I’ve heard and learned along the way.