Kawartha Dairy delivers nearly 90 years of quality and customer service

Jeanine Moyer

For almost 90 years, Kawartha Dairy has been turning fresh Ontario milk into smiles with their delicious ice cream, milk and dairy products. What started as a small milk bottling business in Bobcaygeon, Ont. in 1937, has since grown into a premium ice cream and dairy brand that continues to expand across Canada.

Protecting milk’s quality and safety

Biofilms in dairy processing: a persistence from the farm to the factory

How Dalock Farms improved animal care

Tracy Dafoe, with her husband and son, milks 57 cows in a tiestall barn in Havelock, Ont. Their family is the fourth generation on this farm and they have a mixed herd of Holsteins and Jerseys.

Shifting Acres

Jayden Thomas and Tom Wright, OMAFA

There has been an increase in the number of farms growing winter triticale that is ensiled for feeding dairy cattle in Ontario in 2024. Introducing triticale into the milking herd’s diet is a strategy more producers are using since there is apparently growing interest in double cropping on more land.

Be diligent with record keeping

Kristen Edwards, DVM, PhD Candidate, University of Guelph

Having excellent calf health records is important for individual-animal decision making, but also for herd-level medicine.

Back to basics calf care

Veal Farmers of Ontario

There are many factors that can affect calf health, from genetics and environment to nutrition and handling. Some are more difficult or expensive to implement than others – and some, like genetics, take careful, long-term planning.

Finding solutions for deadstock management

By Lilian Schaer for Livestock Research Innovation Corporation

LRIC has been leading efforts by the livestock sector to find workable solutions for managing on-farm livestock mortalities