The Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) will receive over $7.5 million from the federal AgriScience Program — Clusters Component.
AgriScience — a federally funded program under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (S-CAP) — will back DFC for research into “solutions to improve the environmental and economic sustainability, and resilience of the Canadian dairy industry,” Agriculture and Agri-food Canada said in a recent release.
DFC is to develop and implement plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sequester carbon, and to improve the health and welfare of cows and the quality of milk produced.
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Outcomes in the former area are expected to help the industry hit DFC’s previously stated goal of reaching net-zero GHG emissions from dairy production by 2050. Research in the latter areas, meanwhile, will include antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in dairy cattle, genetic improvements in cattle, and “eco-efficient” dairy processing.
DFC president Pierre Lampron said in a separate release that the funding is “essential to enable strong, robust and evidenced-based research material that ultimately helps dairy farmers increase the efficiency of their farms.”
