IAF Helps Livestock Sector Tackle Disposal Challenges
With increasing focus on the safety and security of our local ag sector, developing collaborative solutions to industry’s most pressing issues has never been more [...]
Buy BC Pork Promotion Raises Sales…and Spirits!
With nearly a century of corporate history, veteran pork processor Johnston Packers now serves more than 450 local retailers, butchers and restaurants from its family-run [...]
Improving Water Buffalo Genetics
McClintock’s Farm is a dairy farm nestled in the heart of the Comox Valley, but you won’t find any cows here. Instead, Gerry and Val [...]
Down Cows Relieved with Warm Bath
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 [...]
Good News for Dairy Cows & Farmers
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 [...]
Know the Culture, Get Results
Taking some time to understand your audience can go a long way when you’re doing market research. BC Association of Cattle Feeders recently gleaned valuable [...]
A New Dimension for Wildlife Control
Conventional wisdom says good fences make good neighbours. When it comes to protecting winter feed and forage from deer, elk and moose, good fences are [...]
Cariboo Ranchers Return to Schools
BC farmers are always striving to maintain a competitive edge and increase their profitability. Take a group of Cariboo ranchers determined to produce high quality, [...]
Beefing Up Appeal from Pasture to Plate
Beef lovers are craving a broadening range of product attributes these days; from animal welfare to enhanced nutritional value to environmentally responsible practices, many shoppers [...]
This Little Lamb Went to Market
Consumer cravings for healthy, convenient products have recently given lamb unprecedented popularity within Canada. Despite this demand, the Canadian lamb producers’ share of its own market [...]
Improving Soil Quality With Manure
Cows give us a lot. Not only do they turn some of what they eat into milk or protein, but even the stuff that passes [...]
Exploring Agri-Energy Opportunities
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 [...]
