The Lifetime Performance Index is weight differently among six areas.

Dairy LPI gets last minute updates

A dairy farmer figured out that the last index was over-weighted to milk production

The dairy Lifetime Performance Index will be updated April 1 and includes some changes in trait weighting, including milk production as a dairy farmer realized it was over-emphasized.

Alain Fortin, Ancelin Martin and Bernard Fortin from the Grégoire Fortin Farm in Clermont in Charlevoix, QC.

Eye Breed technology helps with inseminator shortage

The product limits the need for palpating cows as users can watch the inside of the cow during insemination

Glacier FarmMedia – In the summer of 2024, a visit to the Grégoire Fortin Farm in Charlevoix, QC was an opportunity to see how insemination is done with the Eye Breed.This equipment was deployed by the Centre d’insémination artificielle du Québec (CIAQ) in the Charlevoix region to compensate for the lack of inseminators. Eye Breed […] Read more



Jeffrey-Way Hard Rock Twigs won the Supreme Championship of the dairy show at the Royal Agriculture Winter Fair with Lindsay Bowen on the halter.

Jeffrey-Way Hard Rock Twigs wins Royal Supreme Champion

The cow was also Grand Champion of the Holstein Show at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair 2024

Jeffrey-Way Hard Rock Twigs won her second of North America’s major dairy show championships when she took the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair’s Supreme Championship on Nov. 9, 2024. The black cow with the huge frame also was the Grand Champion of the Royal Holstein show and the Grand Champion Holstein of the World Dairy Expo. […] Read more

A map shows where international attendees come from at the World Dairy Expo 2024.

VIDEO: World Dairy Expo 2024: Final wrap up

More long-term implications of the dairy beef trends, and is it AI, AI or AI?

It’s the final day of the World Dairy Expo 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin and John Greig, Glacier FarmMedia’s senior livestock editor wraps up his time spent at the event. He talks about the long-reaching ramifications of more dairy cows bred to beef bulls, talks about event attendance and… is it AI, AI or AI?