BC’s dairy farmers will donate $3 to Food Banks BC for every qualifying menu item.
Mickey is to dairy farming what cream is to coffee. Growing up in the same farmhouse on Vancouver Island that her father and grandfather (both dairy farmers, themselves) grew up in, Mickey is proud to be the next in a long line of people producing the highest quality milk for her community.
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Farm, grocery store, breakfast table, restaurant kitchen; the list of places affected by BC’s dairy industry stretches further than freshly melted mozzarella (all across the province to be exact).
Dairy farms in BC
Milking cows per farm (on average)
Jobs in BC supported by the dairy industry
Billion dollars contribution to BC’s economy (GDP)
Million litres of milk produced in BC annually
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The Stobbe family heat their milking parlour and their home sustainably by harnessing heat from the milk they produce on their farm in the Shuswap region of BC Abe and AJ Stobbe, dairy farmers in Mara, BC standing in front of the geothermal heat exchange system that heats their milking parlour and their homes What […]
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Three dairy farming families donate new diving blocks to the Agassiz-Harrison Aquanauts Swim Club Karen Hatt (left) and Catherine Schwichtenberg (right), representing two of the three dairy farming families who have donated diving blocks to the AHA Swim Club. A third block was donated by the Hoogendorn family (not pictured). It hasn’t been an easy year […]
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Dr. Frank Mitloehner, professor and air quality specialist in cooperative extension in the Department of Animal Science at UC Davis, is passionate about helping our global community understand the environmental and human health impacts of livestock. This article presents highlights from his presentation at the 2021 Annual Nutrition Forum. We can’t eat our way out […]
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