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Udder Health: Reports to Manage SCC

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Monitoring Grass-Fed Status of Dairy Herds by Routine Analysis of Bulk Tank Milk Samples

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How do your cows' milk incomes compare to other Canadian cows?

Genetics

Sire Proof Interpretation Table for Linear Type Traits - April 2023

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Milk Production & Quality
Juno Hartley

Udder Health: Reports to Manage SCC

March 31, 2023
Forage
Mazen Bahadi

Monitoring Grass-Fed Status of Dairy Herds by Routine Analysis of…

March 30, 2023
Milk Production & Quality
Mario Séguin

How do your cows’ milk incomes compare to other Canadian cows?

March 28, 2023
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

Sire Proof Interpretation Table for Linear Type Traits – April…

March 24, 2023
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Lifetime Performance Index (LPI) Formula – April 2023

March 23, 2023
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

Pro$: Canada’s Profit-Based Genetic Selection Index – April…

March 23, 2023
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Base Change Summary – April 2023

March 22, 2023
Milk Production & Quality
Juno Hartley

Milk Value: The HPI’s Main Component

March 21, 2023
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Introducing Methane Efficiency!

March 21, 2023
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

Genetic Evaluations for Body Maintenance Requirements

March 21, 2023
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Open Industry Session Recap: February 2023

March 9, 2023
Pasture
François Labelle

HappyGrass: A new application for pasture management

March 3, 2023
Media
Jean-Marc Neilson

Lactanet Shines a Spotlight on Canada’s Best Managed Dairy Herds

February 21, 2023
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

New Genetic Evaluations Coming in April 2023

February 17, 2023
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Genetic Selection for Reduced Methane (CH4)

February 13, 2023
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Genetic Tools Tips & Tricks: The Group Query

February 10, 2023
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Genetic Tools Tips & Tricks: The Animal Query

February 10, 2023
Business & Economics
Gervais Bisson

Planning: a key factor in dairy production!

February 2, 2023
Farm sustainability
Hannah Sweett

Environmental Footprint of the Dairy Industry

January 25, 2023
Farm sustainability
Omar Sandoval

Employee Retention: Essential for Farm Sustainability

January 24, 2023
Comfort & Welfare
Lactanet

Steps to Help Manage Non-Ambulatory Cattle

January 24, 2023
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

A2 (Beta Casein) Genotype Reports

January 23, 2023
Comfort & Welfare
Lactanet

Down Cattle Care

January 23, 2023
Media
Geneviève Clermont

Extraordinary Opportunities for Dairy Producers Ahead

January 19, 2023
Business & Economics
Lactanet

Annual Reports

January 18, 2023
Media
Brian Van Doormaal

Canada is Global Leader for Delivering Methane Evaluations

January 16, 2023
Media
Lactanet

Lactanet External Advisory Committee Appointments

January 3, 2023
Comfort & Welfare
Laura Solano

How to Increase the Bottom-Line Through Cow Comfort? 

December 16, 2022
Business & Economics
Catherine Larivée Bazinet

Are Lactanet’s Workshops for me?

November 24, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

How to Access Feed Efficiency for Your Heifers

November 21, 2022
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Modernized Standards for Publishable Lactations

November 16, 2022
Mycotoxins
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Mycotoxins in silage: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of…

November 10, 2022
Media
Lactanet

New dairy proficiency testing service now available!

November 9, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

A New Look and Focus on Feed Efficiency

November 2, 2022
Business & Economics
Simon Jetté-Nantel

Rising expenses and interest rates: How much can we control?

October 24, 2022
Herd Health
Elouise Molgat

Cleaning and Disinfection: What’s the Difference?

October 19, 2022
Heifer Raising
Rodrigo Molano

Research Bits – Part 2

October 19, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

A Look at Genomic Bulls Used in Canada

October 7, 2022
Farm sustainability
Simon Jetté-Nantel

Producer Welfare Pays Off!

September 23, 2022
Heifer Raising
Rodrigo Molano

Research Bits – Calf and Heifer Management

September 22, 2022
Farm sustainability
Lactanet

Animal Welfare in Everyday Life

September 20, 2022
Heifer Raising
Rodrigo Molano

Your Mature Cows: Your Heifers’ Best Unit of Measure

September 8, 2022
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Inbreeding Update

August 16, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Selection for Milk Caseins: Beta and Kappa

August 16, 2022
Goats & Sheeps
Caroline Brunelle

Optimizing Goat Nutrition for a Sustainable Operation

August 16, 2022
Feeding
Rodrigo Molano

Corn Processing, How to Milk the Most of It?

August 16, 2022
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

Know Your Feed Margin Better to Take Advantage of It

July 22, 2022
Heifer Raising
René Roy

How to Cope with a Challenging Fall Season?

July 21, 2022
Heifer Raising
Mélinda Précourt

Expert Tips for Raising Successful Calves – Post-Calving Care

July 15, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Mitigating Dairy Cattle Methane Emissions for a Green Economy

July 14, 2022
Business & Economics
Simon Jetté-Nantel

Impact of rising interest rates on dairy farms

July 13, 2022
Organic Dairy Production
François Labelle

“Planet Score,” An Environmental Label for Consumers

July 4, 2022
Farm sustainability
Steve Adam

Herd Sustainability Makes Sense!

July 4, 2022
Business & Economics
Patrice Fortier

Reducing farm expenses: optimizing forage production and use

July 4, 2022
Genetics
Lactanet

A.I. Market Share Update

July 4, 2022
Milk Analysis
Jean Brisson

SNF ratio, why and how?

June 21, 2022
Farm sustainability
Steve Adam

Innovative practices in comfort and welfare: The secret to a sustainable…

June 17, 2022
Heifer Raising
Mélinda Précourt

Expert Tips for Raising Successful Calves – Pre-partum and Calving…

June 15, 2022
Comfort & Welfare
Mario Séguin

What is the Management Index?

June 13, 2022
PROFILab analysis
Lactanet

PROFILab: Fact Sheet and Potential Solutions

June 8, 2022
Dry Off & Transition
Ariane France

How to Achieve a Successful Transition Period and Be More Profitable?

June 8, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Improved Selection for Feed Efficiency

June 7, 2022
Genetics
Hannah Sweett

Insemination Trends: The Rise in Sexed and Beef Sire Semen

June 7, 2022
Genetics
Lactanet

Trend in Genomic Versus Proven Sire Usage

June 6, 2022
Media
Geneviève Clermont

Building Equity for Canadian Dairy Farmers

May 24, 2022
Business & Economics
Lactanet

Scheele Organic Dairy

May 22, 2022
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Your Best Investment of the Year is to Harvest Quality Forage

May 20, 2022
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

A New Tool to Select Your Most Efficient Cows For the Robot

May 18, 2022
Milk Production & Quality
Mario Séguin

Your Tactical Decision Tools are at Lactanet

May 12, 2022
Feeding
Karen Bergeron

Is Your Grain Milling Process Optimized?

May 11, 2022
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

How to Purchase a Feed Efficiency Evaluation?

May 9, 2022
Media
Geneviève Clermont

2022/05/09 – Shaping the Future of Dairy Through Resolutions

May 9, 2022
Feed Margin
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Quick solutions when the price of concentrates is high

May 3, 2022
Heifer Raising
Mélinda Précourt

Colostrum Management is Key

April 29, 2022
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

Milking Robots, Where Efficiency meets Profitability

April 25, 2022
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

5 Reasons to Genomic Test Your Ayrshires

April 25, 2022
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

The Impact of Genomics

April 25, 2022
Pasture
François Labelle

PROFILab is Useful In The Pasture!

April 23, 2022
Milk Analysis
Jean Durocher

A Bulk Tank Test to Estimate Bovine Leukosis Prevalence in Your Herd

April 22, 2022
Farm sustainability
Catherine Larivée Bazinet

Breaking the Taboos: Mental Health in Agriculture

April 22, 2022
PROFILab analysis
Lactanet

PROFILab: factsheets with benchmarks

April 22, 2022
Media
Geneviève Clermont

Lactanet will host the annual ICAR conference

March 30, 2022
Feeding
Juno Hartley

Precision Feeding Principles Can Be For Anyone

March 18, 2022
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Improving Soil Health to Increase Farm Profitability

March 15, 2022
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Establishing Your Field with the Best Cover Crop

March 15, 2022
Media
Jean-Marc Neilson

Canada’s Best Managed Dairy Herds Revealed

February 22, 2022
Business & Economics
Steve Adam

The Portrait of Quebec Dairy Farms in Constant Evolution!

February 18, 2022
Forage
Mazen Bahadi

Grass is green, IR Analysis is red, this can determine what your…

February 16, 2022
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

A2 (Beta Casein) Reports Now Available!

February 7, 2022
Farm sustainability
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC)

DFC Targets Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050

February 2, 2022
Herd Health
Mario Séguin

Be in control of your herd…

January 25, 2022
Media
Geneviève Clermont

2022/01/19 – Lactanet’s 2022 Insight to Support Dairy Producers

January 19, 2022
Farm sustainability
Lactanet

Guide to the Sustainability Index

January 14, 2022
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Defining Breed Purity

January 14, 2022
Media
Geneviève Clermont

2021/12/21 – Helping Resilient BC Dairy Farmers Bounce Back

December 21, 2021
Farm sustainability
Karen Bergeron

The Life Cycle of a Dairy Operation: A Wheel That Turns!

December 10, 2021
Comfort & Welfare
Anne-Marie Christen

ICAR’s Hoof Health and Lameness Toolkit

December 10, 2021
Comfort & Welfare
Steve Adam

Your Voice Counts!

December 10, 2021
Farm sustainability
Karen Bergeron

Sustainability Index for Ferme Claude Larocque Inc.

December 9, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

A New Genomics Impact Visualization Tool

December 6, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Lactanet

How to get more milk fat?

December 2, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Updating Indirect Herd Life

November 30, 2021
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

Functional Trait Interpretations

November 25, 2021
Dry Off & Transition
Jeff Gunn

Five key factors impacting transitions

November 10, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Updates for the December 2021 Genetic Evaluation Release

November 10, 2021
Dry Off & Transition
Jeff Gunn

Overview of the Using the Numbers – Dairy Benchmarking Project

November 10, 2021
Herd Health
Lactanet

Dairy producers’ perception toward lameness control

October 27, 2021
Heifer Raising
Mélinda Précourt

Get Off to a Good Start: The Importance of the First Hours of Life

September 27, 2021
Heifer Raising
Isabelle Morin

Disinfecting the Navel: Get Off to a Good Start

September 27, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Catherine Larivée Bazinet

Exciting On-Line Learning Opportunities Ahead

September 24, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Data Collection Blitz: The Crampy Project

September 13, 2021
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Have you considered ensiling your fall rye?*

August 18, 2021
Genetics
Lactanet

Average Gain in LPI and Pro$ Reliability Due to Genomics

August 10, 2021
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Curly Calf Syndrome in Ayrshires

August 10, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Updates for the August 2021 Genetic Evaluation

August 9, 2021
Business & Economics
René Roy

The new milk payment policy: it doesn’t change the world, but…

August 7, 2021
Business & Economics
Gervais Bisson

Fifteen Days: Take Them or Leave Them

July 23, 2021
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

A Peak in Robot Concentrate Costs

July 19, 2021
PROFILab analysis
Daniel Warner

Management Practices that Promote de novo Fatty Acid Production

July 14, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Isabelle Morin

Are these targets within your reach?

July 9, 2021
Media
Daniel Lefebvre

2021/07/05 – Lactanet Acquires Lac-T Dairy Software

July 5, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Isabelle Morin

Fix A Milk Quality Problem Quickly: A Smart Strategy

June 15, 2021
Milk Recording
Ed Frazee

Milk Sampling in Summer Temperatures

June 15, 2021
Thermal Stress
Rodrigo Molano

Beat the heat on your herd, thinking out of the “lactating cow”…

June 14, 2021
Thermal Stress
Caeli Richardson

Beat the Heat with Genetics

June 14, 2021
Media
Lactanet

2021/06/03 – Tools and Resources for Better Herd Management

June 3, 2021
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

Benchmarks 2020 by Milking Systems

June 1, 2021
Genetics
Mario Séguin

Genetic Selection for Fat Production to Meet Market Needs

May 26, 2021
PROFILab analysis
Vincent Pelletier Bolduc

Portrait of Ferme Yves R. Couture: The Chop that Can Make All the…

May 24, 2021
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

A tool to help you decide when to mow your forages!

May 21, 2021
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Update on the Use of Silage Inoculants

May 20, 2021
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Strategies to improve winter survival of legumes

May 14, 2021
Media
Neil Petreny

2021/05/10 – The Votes Are In!

May 10, 2021
Atlantic
Lactanet

Hazelhill Farms: They’ve Got Flair!

May 1, 2021
Business & Economics
Lactanet

N&N Farm: Passing The Torch to the Next Generation

April 30, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Improving On-Farm Performance: Management vs Genetics?

April 28, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Josiane Prince

Top 1% herds: What sets them apart from the rest?

April 26, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Jennifer Donahue

A Cow’s Circadian Rhythm

April 23, 2021
Feeding
Lactanet

Strategic Guide to Feeding Diets Without Palm Oil Derivatives

April 22, 2021
Business & Economics
Mario Séguin

A new dynamic dashboard for informed decision making

April 21, 2021
Business & Economics
Lactanet

Characteristics of High Performing Herds – DairyComp 305

April 20, 2021
Dairy Research Blog
Dairy Research Cluster 3

Are some cows genetically susceptible to Johne’s Disease?

April 19, 2021
Genetics
Lactanet

Heritability Estimates Used for Genetic Evaluation in Canada

March 30, 2021
Media
Brian Van Doormaal

2021/03/23 – Engaging with Dairy Producers for a Thriving Future

March 23, 2021
Herd Health
Jean Durocher

Sub-clinical Ketosis Screening

March 22, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Is your feed going to waste?

March 22, 2021
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

Major Type Traits Move to Composite Indexes

March 19, 2021
Genetics
Caeli Richardson

Introducing Feed Efficiency

March 19, 2021
Business & Economics
René Lacroix

Artificial intelligence: Fact or fiction?

March 18, 2021
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Update on Haplotypes Including JNS for Jerseys

March 17, 2021
Business & Economics
Gervais Bisson

Producing cost-effective milk in 2021

March 11, 2021
Milk Production & Quality
Isabelle Morin

Bacteria penalties in Quebec – What you need to know

February 24, 2021
Dairy Research Blog
Dairy Research Cluster 3

Innovative research to advance genetic and genomic improvements in…

February 22, 2021
Media
Richard Cantin

2020 Top Canadian Managed Herds

February 9, 2021
Heifer Raising
Lactanet

Growth Chart by Breed

February 8, 2021
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

What’s New with April 2021 Genetic Evaluations

January 27, 2021
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

Are peaks and persistency different for cows in robotic milking?

January 26, 2021
PROFILab analysis
Mario Séguin

PROFILab: a cost-effective tool for robotic farms

January 21, 2021
Heifer Raising
Lactanet

Milk Feeding plan

January 19, 2021
Heifer Raising
Rodrigo Molano

The importance of your breeding program on profitability

January 18, 2021
Media
Neil Petreny

2021/01/18 – Lactanet recognizes impactful work and sets the…

January 18, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

Mycotoxins 101

January 7, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

The challenge of mycotoxins in cattle

January 6, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

Detecting mycotoxin problems in cattle…

January 5, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

Analysis of mycotoxins in feed

January 4, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

Analysis of mycotoxins in blood

January 3, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

Use of feed additives

January 2, 2021
Mycotoxins
Lactanet

Prevention and control of feed contamination

January 1, 2021
Genetics
Lactanet

Genetic Herd Inventory Report

January 1, 2021
Genetics
Dr. Allison Fleming

Interpreting Sire Proofs for Linear Type Traits

December 22, 2020
Milk Analysis
Lactanet

12 Steps For Representative Sample

December 17, 2020
Feed Margin
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Per Cow, Per Hectolitre, or Per kg Milk Fat: Which is the best indicator…

December 15, 2020
Milk Analysis
Isabelle Morin

How does a BactoScan™ work?

December 15, 2020
Robotic Milking
Gervais Bisson

Concentrates at the Robot: Two is good, but three is better!

December 15, 2020
Milk Recording
René Lacroix

Are we aware of the power of data and digital technology?

December 7, 2020
Atlantic
Lactanet

Spotlight on Nadine Othberg, Dairy production technician — New…

November 21, 2020
Milk Production & Quality
Marcel Thiboutot

Tips from the pros to ensure milk quality

November 20, 2020
Forage
Karen Bergeron

Calculating your forage yield is not that complicated

November 20, 2020
PROFILab analysis
Débora Santschi

PROFILab on Barjo Farm: 45 kg/day of milk and higher than average…

November 19, 2020
Feed Margin
Jean-Philippe Laroche

You can produce more for less!

November 19, 2020
Forage
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Preventive measures that save lives

November 18, 2020
Goats & Sheeps
Caroline Brunelle

The Key Factors to Consider when Feeding Goats

November 17, 2020
Genetics
Brian Van Doormaal

Modified Requirements for Official Information Due to Covid-19

November 16, 2020