Agropur has gone back to Plan A for the fate of a major Quebec soft cheese processing plant after halting talks with the province’s goat dairy farmer association. Canada’s biggest dairy co-operative had announced in September last year it would close the former Fromagerie Damafro plant at Saint-Damase, Que. in April this year, but delayed […] Read more
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Agropur halts talks with Quebec goat dairy producers
Oxford County goat producers named Ontario’s Outstanding Young Farmers
The Roos family focuses on top management of their kid goats, including developing a record-keeping app
Jan and Jony Roos from Roos Dairy Goats were the recipients of the 2019 Ontario Outstanding Young Farmers award. The couple, with their four children, Julian (eight), Joanna (six), Janine (four) and Jessica (three), are first generation dairy goat farmers milking 2,000 to 2,500 goats in a state of the art, 100-stall rotary parlour in […] Read more
Small ruminant market prices remain high
Greater Toronto Area has high demand, but there’s little growing supply to meet it
Market prices for small ruminants have been steadily high for the past few years. The demand is there but the supply is not. Dirk Boogerd, producer and Ontario Goat chair milks 500 goats east of Embro and he’s noticed the usual post-Easter price drop has been slower than previous years. He says many producers are […] Read more
Goat group continues to look for savings
The loss of a producer vote to create a goat checkoff last year continues to have effects
There’s no way around it for the Ontario Goat (OG) board of directors: A round of severe belt-tightening looms. Having endured the defeat of its proposal for a mandatory goat milk check-off during a Producer Expression of Opinion vote last year, the nine-member board must now explore how to continue its work under a significantly […] Read more
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