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A reminder to check out the Atlantic Dairy Industry Calendar on the Atlantic Dairy Industry tab on the Lactanet Canada website for upcoming meetings and events in your region! If you would like to post an upcoming event, please contact me! valacta.com/en-ca/atlantic…

Turning attention to calf care: @DavRenaud stresses the importance of recording data about calves - mortality, diseases, colostrum quality, passive transfer of immunity, growth to support informed decisions, monitoring #DCIIF2019

Andrew Cromie from ICBF @HerdPlus presents Irish perspective with dairy on beef breeding (46% in IE): too much focus on calving traits has detrimental consequences on growth, carcass traits, lowering calf value for calf rearers. Genetic differences worth $260/calf #DCIIF2019

DairyTrace will give Canadian dairy sector an efficient full animal traceability administered by @Lactanet_Canada in collaboration with @dfc_plc, ATQ and industry partners. @SaraAvoledo presents an update.

The ICAR Newsletter (September 2019) is now on-line. The main topics are: – News from Prague Annual Conference – News from ICAR Groups (Sub-Committees and Working Groups) – ICAR and the Smarter Project Issue is available here: icar.org/wp-content/upl…

Neil Petreny Highlights the breadth of @Lactanet_Canada services and activities: herd recording, laboratories, genetic services, software, traceability, advisory services, knowledge transfer, centre of expertise

Barbara Paquet présidente de @Lactanet_Canada explique les étapes et les raisons qui ont mené à la création du partenariat @Lactanet_Canada

Words of welcome by Chris Parry GM of @_Westgen, co-host of the 1st Dairy Cattle Improvement Industry Forum under hosted by @Lactanet_Canada | Accueil de Chris Parry DG de @_Westgen au 1er Forum de l’industrie de l’amélioration des bovins laitiers sous @Lactanet_Canada

Maxime Leduc présente le nouveau site de démonstration de pâturages pour les bovins laitiers @McGillMacCampus dans le cadre d’un projet pancanadien de #cfga #journeeafoin #cqpf

Excellente présentation de mon collègue François Labelle sur l’utilisation des pâturages en traite robotisée. Le nerf de la guerre: créer une association forte entre l’accès à la nouvelle herbe vs passages au robot. #journeeafoin #cqpf

@BoBerthiaume toujours aussi pertinent (et amusant 😉) sur les différentes espèces fourragères à utiliser en pâturages #journeeafoin #cqpf

@BoBerthiaume: les prairies de plante fourragères/pâturage = capter du C = ⬇️ GES #journeeafoin #cqpf

C’est un rendez-vous le 10 septembre pour couronner les #fromages gagnants #Caseus. D'ici là, ne vous privez pas de déguster les finalistes! caseus.ca

La gestion de l’offre n’est pas un frein à la performance et à l’innovation📲. Les producteurs de lait québécois font de l’amélioration de leur performance et de leur productivité une priorité.👇

On our way to #ISAE2019Bergen Want to guess how many time a cow is bumping into the neckrail or divider of her stall? cowlifemcgill.com/post/have-the-…

Job Opportunity! Full-time, Permanent @Lactanet_Canada in Sussex NB. Passionate about cows, new technology, data, & helping dairy farmers manage their herds? Looking 2 B part of a dynamic team? We have the opportunity for you! Contact Jeff Gunn @ jgunn@lactanet.ca, (902) 759-4866

Pleased to be a part of #EastGenShowcase presentations at @dalagriculture campus on Friday! A great bunch of participants and a great bunch of industry partners! Thanks for asking me to be included in this great event! @Lactanet_Canada @EastGenGenetics

La Ministre @mclaudebibeau annonce un investissement de 11.4M$ d’@AAC_Canada pour la grappe de recherche laitière @dairyresearch un investissement total de 16M$ en incluant les contributions de @dfc_plc et ses partenaires @Lactanet_Canada et @Novalait #PLC_AGA2019

Chairman @dfc_plc Pierre Lampron: It is amazing what we can accomplish when we work together with common objectives #DFC_AGM2019