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