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The type of feed utilized by Canadian dairy farmers significantly affects the amount of GHG emissions as a result of dairy production. Canadian dairy farmers commonly feed their cattle corn or barley silage as high nutrient food sources to increase milk production. Although corn and barley are both efficient and economic sources of feed, these ...
The Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia, the producers' marketing board, that purchases pools of raw milk from farmers to sell to dairy milk processors, raised their milk quota in March 2015, in response to an "unprecedented" increase in demand for butter and cream. They were left with a surplus of skimmed milk. [104] [105]
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is the national policy, lobbying, and promotional organization representing Canadian dairy producers. [ 2 ] : 6 The advocacy group was created in 1934 when a number of related groups merged to form a single entity for representing the interests of dairy farmers .
In 1967 the government of Canada passed the Canadian Dairy Commission Act which established the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC). [9]: 13 The Canadian Milk Supply Management Committee, whose members include the CDC and representatives of provincial producer marketing boards, was set up in 1970 to administer the national Market Sharing Quota. [10]
The Milk Act was passed in response to milk market inefficiencies and inequities in the 1960s. [1] The Ontario provincial government 1963 commissioned study called for the creation of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board (OMMB) in Guelph, Ontario, an intermediate body to purchase all milk produced on Ontario farms and to sell it to milk processors. [1]
Dairy genetics industry The Canadian Record of Performance R.O.P. program discovers dairy cattle of high producing milk capacities. Cattle qualities are monitored by the Canadian Dairy Herd Improvement milk producing agency.(Canadian DHI). [58] Distillery industry Canadian whisky made from rye and corn is the main aspect of this Canadian industry.
Dairyland is a dairy business that operates in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.Now owned by Saputo Dairy Foods Canada, Dairyland was originally an operating arm of BC dairy farmers' cooperatives and was legally named Agrifoods International Cooperative Ltd. at the time of the sale of the majority of its assets to Saputo Incorporated.
In 1971, the Quebec-based Coopérative Agricole de Granby (renamed Agropur in 1979) [8] obtained the Canadian licence to manufacture and market Yoplait products. [9] In 1993, Agropur's yogurt manufacturing and marketing operations were combined with those of Agrifoods, a federal cooperative owned by 2,500 dairy producers in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, forming Ultima Foods.