New Siberia Farms Udderly Transforms Manure Storage
New Siberia Farms completed an Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) in the fall of 2022 to better prepare for extreme weather events. New Siberia Farms is [...]
New Siberia Farms completed an Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) in the fall of 2022 to better prepare for extreme weather events. New Siberia Farms is [...]
With new waste regulations effective under the Agricultural Environmental Management Code of Practice, the need to navigate nutrient management alternatives has become a mobilizing force [...]
As any dairy farmer knows, lameness is the most economically significant herd health and animal welfare issue facing producers. What is often less obvious is [...]
And the award goes to…Philip Vanderpol, president and CEO of Vitalus Nutrition! The visionary entrepreneur was honoured with IAF’s 2018 Award of Excellence for Innovation [...]
For dairy farmers across Canada, Automated Milking Systems (AMS) represent an increasingly compelling alternative that can help reduce labour costs while increasing milking frequency. Although [...]
Weighing often more than 600kg, dairy cows can become victims of their own weight if they’re lying down too long after an injury or illness. Often [...]
Three years and three projects after first connecting with IAF, Abbotsford-based Vitalus Nutrition has successfully developed and commercialized two new product lines under the Canada-BC Agri-Innovation Program! Vitalus [...]
Lameness is one of the costliest health problems affecting dairy cattle today. Not only will a dairy cow with lame, sore, infected feet produce less [...]
People who are lactose intolerant have trouble digesting lactose, the sugar in milk products. Because their bodies don’t produce enough of the enzyme that breaks [...]
When it comes to cattle, Fraser Valley dairy farmers have their hands full. Large herd sizes mean dealing with increasing amounts of manure which must [...]
Some projects have a reach that goes far beyond the agriculture sector. Reducing greenhouse gases and increasing BC’s production of renewable energy is important to [...]