There is a lot of misinformation out there about milk and the dairy industry here in Canada.
Most dairy farms in Canada are family owned farms that have been in the business of making milk for generations.
The average dairy farm in BC has 130 milking cows and there are about 500 active dairy farms in BC.
Milk that is sold in BC is produced and processed from a farm in BC.
The milk that you purchase at your local grocery store is a very local product.
BC Dairy is a not-for-profit organization representing BC’s dairy farmers.
Agassiz’s Creekside Dairy started making and selling their own organic cheese from a shop on their farm on August 19, 2021. It was the realization of a long-standing dream, but like many such things the journey did not follow a straight line but took years, a few risks, and a bit of a winding path.. […]
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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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We can’t eat our way out of the climate crisis At BC Dairy Association’s 20th Annual Nutrition Forum, University of California Davis air quality expert and researcher, Dr. Frank Mitloehner emphasized that we can’t eat our way out of the climate crisis. “The notion that a change of our diet would have a drastic impact […]
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