Reading Time: 3 minutes Laura Rance-Unger on why farmers should watch diet trends for common threads rather than chasing the next craze.
Producers must tread carefully when food fads come calling
Editorial: Recent changes to milk pricing show how diet trends and weight-loss drugs ripple back through the food chain to the farm gate
Dairy marketplace faces big changes
Questions remain about soon-to-be implemented changes to the price ratio as well as the upcoming CUSMA review
Reading Time: 2 minutes Beginning in April, dairy producers will be facing payment changes as processors and industry move to meet consumer demands and trends.
Rural municipalities push legalization of raw milk onto provincial agenda
Despite warnings from scientists, a raw milk advocate says legalizing its sale in Alberta will minimize the risks
Reading Time: 5 minutes Drinking raw milk comes with numerous risks, but proponents of a proposed amendment to Alberta’s Food and Drug Act say legalizing its sale could be a boon for small farms in the province.
U.S. unlikely to ask to dismantle supply management: trade experts
U.S. unlikely to ask to dismantle supply management in a CUSMA review, says Canadian trade experts, but there will likely be concessions around access and tariff rate quota administration.
Best tactics for dairy calf diarrhea
Scours in young livestock costs Canadian farmers big bucks. Fluids, managed antibiotics and anti-inflammatories help animals recover faster
Reading Time: 3 minutes Calf diarrhea costs Canada’s dairy farmers big bucks. Fluids, managed antibiotics and treating with anti-inflammatories help animals recover faster.
Manitoba Co-operator top 25 of 2025
The Manitoba Co-operator is counting down our 25 most popular stories of 2025. Here’s a taste so far, from trade woes to new insight on Manitoba’s wild pig problem
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
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta Milk embarks on holiday season campaign to raise money for Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation
Moo translator and methane measures: There’s an app for that
Canadian farmers can access two new app-based dairy farm tools from Dalhousie University: One analyzes cattle sounds, another promises farm-specific methane measurements
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dalhousie University researchers use artificial intelligence to create new dairy farm apps that analyze cattle sounds and measure methane.
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
Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026
The Canadian Dairy Commission will raise its farm gate milk price by 2.3255 per cent in February, the Crown corporation announced on Friday.