Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta Milk embarks on holiday season campaign to raise money for Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation
Alberta Milk opens annual hospital fundraiser
Alberta Milk looking to raise up to $100,000 in matching-donation campaign for Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation
Milk transportation requires intricate logistics
As demand is expected to increase in future years, Alberta Milk is looking to the logistical challenges in transporting product in Western Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta Milk explains transportation system in Western Canada which sees millions of litres cross borders
Milk concentration plant officially opens in Alta.
Industry hopes the opening of Dairy Innovation West will strengthen the milk market in Western Canada
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian raw-milk processing history made with start up of Dairy Innovation West milk concentration plant in Alberta
Alberta Milk’s Farm to Table campaign highlights Namao dairy farmer
Dairy farmer and local chef share the importance of local food in short film
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta dairy farmer Jason Crozier was the subject of a short film in Alberta Milk’s awareness campaign entitled Farm to Table, which gives consumers an inside look at what happens on the farm.
Celebration day for Dairy Innovation West
Handful of stakeholders get glimpse of 'unique' Alberta milk plant
Reading Time: 3 minutes Western Milk Pool chair Henry Holtmann said a recent “hard hat” tour of the under-construction Dairy Innovation West facility made for a “day of celebration.” Those behind the unique milk processing plant in central Alberta’s Lacombe County have much to celebrate. Over the past five years, the five provincial organizations under the Western Milk Pool […] Read more
Avian influenza detected in person exposed to dairy cattle
Alberta Milk issues new biosecurity, human safety guidelines
A human case of avian influenza has been confirmed in a person who had contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with the virus, Texas and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Alberta dairy producers fight food insecurity
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Milk has launched phase two of a campaign in which it encourages Albertans to help it reach a $100,000 donation target to support people facing food insecurity through a partnership with Food Banks Alberta. Until Aug. 1, Alberta Milk will match donations made to foodbanksalberta.ca/abdairyfarmers to a maximum aggregate amount of $50,000, which will […] Read more
No milk moustaches in new marketing effort from Alberta Milk
Reading Time: < 1 minute Forget the milk moustache, Alberta Milk’s new marketing campaign shifts the focus away from drinking the white stuff to “the myriad ways dairy can be consumed.” The “Smash Milk” campaign is a digital effort aimed at social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube — with a video showing very energetic young people […] Read more
Alberta Milk’s new-entrant program now open
Applications close on March 31
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Milk is now accepting applications for the New Entrant Assistance Program (NEAP), which offers a quota loan at no cost to qualified new farmers. New this year is the ability for those accepted to use loaned quota as security with financial institutions. To date, 22 farms have started under the program, said Alberta Milk […] Read more
New guide for transporting cull cows
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Milk has a new guide for assessing if a cull cow can be shipped. “Regardless of whose care the animal may pass through, it is ultimately the producer who is held accountable should one of their animals be deemed to have been transported inappropriately,” the organization said in its most recent monthly newsletter. One […] Read more
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