DIW will be the first-of-its-kind-in-Canada milk centration facility.

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



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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


Alberta Milk’s new campaign targets social media platforms with a message that drinking milk isn’t the only way to consume dairy products.

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

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

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

Boeve succeeds Kootstra as milk board chair

Boeve succeeds Kootstra as milk board chair

Reading Time: < 1 minute Stuart Boeve is the new chair of Alberta Milk, succeeding Tom Kootstra, who has served as chair since 2016. Boeve, who farms near Taber, had been the organization’s vice-chair. Gert Schrijver is the new vice-chair while Greg Debbink becomes second vice-chair. Kootstra, Martin Van Diemen and Albert Kamps are all leaving the board, and will […] Read more


Call to pay dairy farmers to quit misses the mark, says Alberta Milk

Call to pay dairy farmers to quit misses the mark, says Alberta Milk

Report predicts half of dairy farms will go out of business in a decade without sweeping changes in the sector

Report predicts half of dairy farms will go out of business in a decade without sweeping changes in sector

Reading Time: 5 minutes CORRECTED, Nov. 19 — Alberta’s milk sector faces challenges — but a call to pay farmers to quit the business and to overhaul the entire system is off base, say industry officials here. A recent report from the Agri-Food Analytics Lab says that without major changes, Canada could lose half of its dairy farms in […] Read more

Alberta Milk is scrambling to find processors — from Victoria to Winnipeg — that can take its producers’ milk.

Unprecedented demand swings forcing milk to be dumped

Alberta Milk has temporarily reduced quota amounts to deal with oversupply caused by pandemic

Reading Time: 3 minutes No one likes to see milk being dumped, but it’s been an unfortunate part of the COVID-19 story. Dairy farms across North America have been dumping milk — and making headlines because of it. It’s a consequence of unprecedented swings in demand, said Karlee Conway, a spokesperson for Alberta Milk. “We’re just finding that consumer […] Read more