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Livestock, Markets

Mid-year farm gate price hike approved for milk

Processors say incremental hike may soften impact on consumers

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A request from Canada’s dairy farmer organization for an unscheduled increase in the current farm gate price for milk, to help farmers catch up with steep rises in their costs of production, has been granted. The Canadian Dairy Commission said Tuesday it will recommend that the farm gate price for milk be increased effective Sept. […] Read more
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Livestock

Study finds no data to show change in butter consistency

Not enough data to link to palm supplement use, either

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Updated, Jan. 24 — A panel tasked with reviewing complaints of changes in Canadian butter’s consistency has found there’s not enough data out there to support those complaints — nor to support the allegation that palm byproducts in cows’ rations were the cause. The Expert Working Group on Feed Supplementation, set up by Dairy Farmers […] Read more
Farmers are working with nutritionists to figure out alternatives to using palmitic acid supplements.
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Dairy sector adjusts to butter debate fallout lessons

Now that the rhetoric around butter hardness has settled down, farmers look to managing without palm fat supplements, while research continues

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As the Buttergate social furor and ensuing questions around transparency settles into a dull roar, where does dairy go from here?  “What this conversation is about is – what is the way forward in light of some of the challenges thrown at us over the past few weeks?” said David Wiens, Dairy Farmers of Canada […] Read more
Dairy farmers have fed palm fats to cows on an off depending on several factors, for about 20 years.
Livestock, News

Butter expert group named

The group consists of nutrition, animal health and food science experts and will set its own scope

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A working group of cross-Canadian experts has been named to look into the concerns about the use of palm fat and its effect on butter quality. The 13 members of the working group include experts in nutrition, both human and dairy cow, fatty acids and their composition, along with milk handling. Why it matters: Concern expressed […] Read more
Editorial: A tempest in a butter wrapper
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Editorial: A tempest in a butter wrapper

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I pondered whether to add more copy to the head-scratching and manufactured debate over palm fat in dairy nutrition and the subsequent effects on butter hardness, but I think the recent flurry of mainstream media coverage provides some lessons. To recap: Food sector pot stirrer Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie University is a master at bringing […] Read more
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Livestock

Dairy farmers asked to pass on palm byproducts in rations, for now

Seek out other ingredients while hard-butter issue under review, DFC asks

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Canadian dairy farmers whose feed rations include supplements made with palm byproducts are being asked to consider other options while consumer complaints over butter are probed more closely. Dairy Farmers of Canada on Thursday asked its farmer members to “consider alternatives to palm supplements” pending the outcome of a review of “issues that have been […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets

Pandemic spurs farm gate milk price hike

Dairy Commission to lift price effective Feb. 1 next year

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With the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, the Canadian Dairy Commission has set aside its usual milk price adjustment formula and will instead increase the price based on its own review. The CDC on Monday announced the farm gate price of milk will increase by $1.46 per hectolitre (100 litres) effective Feb. 1, 2021, pending approval […] Read more
Farmers have been building more capacity on their farms to produce milk in new barns and renovations and that additional milk is now coming into the market. Photo: John Greig
Livestock, News

Brakes put on milk production

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The committee that manages milk allocation in Canada’s eastern provinces has said there will no more new quota issued from now to the end of July – the end of the dairy year. Regular quota increases and general enthusiasm in the dairy industry over growing demand, has led to significant milk production increases in eastern […] Read more
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Livestock

Dairy support prices stand pat for 2018

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The Canadian Dairy Commission plans to hold the line on the support levels used to price industrial milk in Canada next year, despite a “small reduction” in the cost of milk production. The commission announced Friday it would maintain the per-kilogram support prices it sets for butter and skim milk powder at $8.0062 and $4.5302 […] Read more
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Livestock

Butter stocks drive eastern dairy quota increase

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Increasing demand for dairy products — including a need to build butter stock — has meant a one per cent increasing in saleable dairy quota, and incentive days from November to March 2018, for eastern Canadian dairy farmers. The P5 dairy farm boards, representing Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, announced […] Read more

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