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Progressive Dairy Canada
July 1, 2024
Edition: 7
Digital edition
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Back to TopShould you chase ‘incentive’ days?
Balancing the value of quota, especially in the case of incentive days, involves considering revenue growth alongside cost management strategies.
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The human side of technology: Three ways monitoring makes life easier
Monitoring technology can improve the on-farm work environment and make work easier for owners and employees by streamlining many labor-intensive tasks like sorting cows.
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Is your herd safe? Cybersecurity essentials for dairy farms
Technology advancements make dairy farms targets of cyberattack, but risks can be mitigated by understanding what threats exist.
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Who is your dairy’s tech champion?
Corralling dairy technology is a big job. Are you up to the task, or is time to call in reinforcements?
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Best practices: Children working on the farm
When involving them in farm work, it is crucial to prioritize child safety by practicing hazard identification, providing thorough training, modeling safe behaviour and ensuring age-appropriate tasks.
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Improve financial transparency with your farm family team
Openly discussing money in farm families is key for smooth transitions and financial literacy, through steps like leading conversations, understanding values, managing debt, analyzing spending, sharing stories and holding family meetings.
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Topic articles
Back to TopUsing cameras and computer vision to assess dairy cow welfare
Consolidation in Canadian dairy farms drives the adoption of precision livestock tech, like 3D cameras and computer vision, showcased by ongoing research at the University of Manitoba with time-of-flight cameras for studying the welfare of lactating cows.
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Everything you never wanted to know about cow manure
Using manure condition, consistency and contents can inform upstream nutrition and management decisions to drive productive efficiency on the dairy.
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Trends in manure handling, application and treatment
Developments in manure management technologies are tackling issues like sand-laden manure, compaction and the role of manure additives.
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Waste and stress from feed variation: Management solutions to reduce economic losses
Enhancing feed management efficiency on dairy farms involves optimizing bunker silo maintenance, TMR preparation, and digestive tract health to maximize milk production and minimize costs.
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Navigating between internal and external milking systems: Understanding your dairy's needs
When deciding between internal and external rotary milking systems, dairy producers must assess their unique needs, operational goals and budget constraints.
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Three principles of successful dairy facility projects
These three principles will help dairy producers find clarity in seeking greater efficiencies and long-term stability in the industry with new milking equipment or facilities.
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Embracing tradition and innovation at Sigview Farms
One Ontario dairy sees big improvements in cow comfort, odour control and somatic cell count after moving their Brown Swiss herd to a compost-bedded pack barn with a continual agitation manure system.
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