Dairy
Agriland spoke with Pat Ryan, national sales and dealer development at Dairymaster, about the appetite for investment on farms
Dairy Technical
This summer, farmers across the country should be making it their mission to take some essential time off.
This dairy focus looks into the farm of Bruce Thompson who was one of the two farmers that the IGA summer visited on Tuesday, July 9.
Dairy farming is a labour-intensive job, with certain parts of the year requiring higher levels of labour than others.
The spring-calving season can be a hectic time of the year on farms; so many farmers will try every trick in the book to reduce the workload.
Many dairy farmers consider OAD milking for the first few weeks of the milking season as a means of reducing the workload in the spring.
Calf feeding is usually the most labour intensive job during the spring, with the majority of farmers opting to feed their calves TAD.
The word lean has been tossed around a lot lately in the farming world, but what is lean? And what is it all about?
