Farmtario and our parent company Glacier FarmMedia, create a lot of dairy content, but it’s blended in with all the news, crops and other livestock stories, video and audio we do too.
That’s why we’ve created a new dairy resource centre on Farmtario’s website called DairyPlus.
We aim for it to be a place that dairy farmers come to count on to find information that can help them make great decisions on their farm. It’s a clearinghouse for great dairy information.
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We thought a lot about how to organize the information on Farmtario DairyPlus. It’s clean and simple and organized by category, which flow intuitively to get you to the information you need quickly.
It’s also built to be best used on a mobile device, so we hope when you’re in the barn, or the tractor or the truck and need some information, you’ll be able to get it quickly and it will read easily. Add it to your phone homescreen for easy access. (Press the box with an arrow at the bottom of a website on your phone and choose “add to home screen”.)
What will you find on Farmtario DairyPlus?
Information on most of what happens on a dairy farm including genetics, barns, calves, milking, nutrition, forages and crops and transition cows. Most of the content will originate from Ontario, but we’ll also select the best from our colleagues in Quebec and the rest of the country. Sign up for our newsletter and when it’s ready we’ll send you customized information on what’s new on the site.
Please visit www.farmtario.com/pages/dairy-plus or choose the DairyPlus link under the Livestock category on www.farmtario.com. Let us know what you think. We’re only getting started.
Here are just two of the many of the stories you’ll see now on Farmtario DairyPlus:
Leukosis prevalence confirmed on Ontario dairy farms
A project aims to provide producers with an accurate assessment of leukosis risk on their farm and provide assurance that the industry can respond quickly to a major disease outbreak. University of Guelph professor David Kelton provided an update on the ongoing program, which is funded by Dairy Farmers of Ontario.
The $460,000 initiative, launched in 2020 with additional funding from the U of G and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, will eventually see two samples from each of the province’s dairy farms collected and analyzed for a list of infectious diseases. The first batch of samples was collected by milk truck drivers in fall 2021. Dairy producers were provided with a letter outlining the results in September.
Every detail counts at Nieuwenhof farm
At Nieuwenhof farm, the attention is on the details.
This is particularly the case for dry cows which are housed in small groups at the farm at Sainte-Agnès-de-Dundee, QC.
And it pays off. The farm recently produced two kilograms of fat per cow per day for four consecutive months.
How many groups of cows do you have in your barn?
Cows in lactation, dry cows and a calving group? Maybe you have two groups of lactating cows? Not at Ferme Nieuwenhof, owned by Benjamin and Justin Nieuwenhof. There are fresh cows, high producers, adult cows, first-calf heifers and heifers in three groups, all this in addition to seven pens of dry cows in preparation for calving and two calving pens. This is a rare model in Canada.
