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March 2022 | Ontario and Western Provinces Edition

HERD PERFORMANCE INDEX

Top 1% of Canada's Best Managed Herds
Canada's Best Managed Dairy Herds 2021

Lactanet's elite list of Canada's 1% Best Managed Dairy Herds is now online! Congratulations to the top 70 herds who have reached optimal performance through relentless hard work, meticulous attention to detail, rigorous consistency – and of course - a passion to excel!

See the full list
 

FORAGE

Improving Soil Health for Profitability
Improving soil health

It is well-known that a healthy soil provides environmental benefits. It is increasingly understood that soil health also has a significant impact on farm profitability in the short, medium, and long term. What is soil health? How can it be improved?

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FORAGE

Precision Feeding Can Be For Anyone
Precision feeding

Not even a decade ago, precision feeding was a topic of interest for research-driven dairy operations only. By definition, it involves feeding a cow exactly what she needs to eat, no more, no less, and with no compromise. Today, precision feeding has evolved alongside our understanding of what it means to feed efficiently. It is a feeding practice for anyone.

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LAB ANALYSIS

Why Analyze Milk Urea Nitrogen (MUN)?
MUN Analysis

MUN analysis acts as a flag that signals you when your feeding program may not be in balance, resulting in lower milk production, higher feed costs, decreased fertility, and more nitrogen excreted into the environment. 

Learn more about MUN analysis
 

TRACEABILITY

DairyTrace Mobile App
DairyTrace Mobile App

DairyTrace provides a secure web portal and a FREE mobile app to help report animal birth, movement, death, and manage traceability events electronically. To have access, users must first have an account and access to mobile data or WIFI.

Watch the video and get started!
 

MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Get Ready to Harvest
Inventory 2022

In preparation for the 2022 season, remember to record important information about your harvest (i.e. number of bales, boxes, inventories/silo, etc.). Whether you text the information to your advisor, record the data in your cell phone, or jot it down in a logbook - all techniques are good. 

Find out best practices
 

RESOLUTIONS 2022

Resolutions Now Posted Online
Resolutions 2022

To ensure dairy producers and the Canadian dairy industry at large are supported for a sustainable and thriving future, we have a website that hosts non-binding Resolutions. The Resolutions are submitted annually by licensed dairy farmers to Lactanet for consideration by our Board of Directors.

View the list of 2022 Resolutions submitted

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GENETICS

Base Change Summary – April 2022
Genetic base change summary

Each year, the genetic base used to express genetic evaluations in Canada is updated in conjunction with the first official release. 

 

 

View the list of changes
 

ICAR ANNUAL MEETING 2022

Lactanet, Host of the 2022 ICAR Annual Meeting
ICAR Annual Meeting 2022

From May 30 to June 3, 2022, Lactanet will welcome a few hundred participants from all over the world for the annual ICAR conference that will be held in Montreal.

Briefly, the «International Committee for Animal Recording» is the organization that sets the standards for milk recording and certifies the equipment. It plays a role in animal identification and registration. Its 20 or so technical committees develop guidelines and technical guides on the various aspects of dairy cattle production - genetics, health, welfare, to name a few.

Lactanet has been a member of this organization for many years and is proud to present a portrait of our Canadian dairy industry and an overview of its key activities. The program and details of the event can be found on the website www.icar2022.ca.
Partenariat canadien pour l'agriculture Canada Québec

Lactanet would like to thank the financial partners associated with the conference and especially MAPAQ for the funding under the Canada-Quebec Agreement for the implementation of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

Together, the federal and Quebec governments have invested $293 million over a five-year period from 2018 to 2023.

This agreement supports strategic initiatives that will help sectors grow, innovate and prosper.