We have two new websites to inform you about today!
Ferme Hautpré, owned by Denis Masse and Isabelle Roy of Louiseville, Québec, have a new website highlighting their award winning Jersey and Ayrshire herd. Check them out at:
www.jerseycanada.com/hautpre
Also, Jersey Québec has launched a new website for their provincial association. It aims to keep Jersey breeders in Québec updated on all the latest news in Québec, with links to other organizations and partners. Their website is located at:
www.jerseycanada.com/jerseyquebec
If you are interested in creating a website with Jersey Canada, contact Ryan today!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
New Website for Sleegerholm Jerseys
We are now hosting a brand-new website for Sleegerholm Jerseys and Sleegerdale Holsteins!
http://www.jerseycanada.com/sleegerholm/
Check out this new site, with lots of great info on cow families and latest events!
http://www.jerseycanada.com/sleegerholm/
Check out this new site, with lots of great info on cow families and latest events!
Monday, April 28, 2008
More web updates...
We're finally getting a chance to get more updates done around here!
Bridon Farms has recently overhauled their website, hosted and designed by Jersey Canada. It can be found at www.jerseycanada.com/bridon
Unique Valleystream Genetics has also updated their website, with a new Sires page and some updated embryo listings! www.jerseycanada.com/unique
We have also updated the Jersey Canada Milk Blog with some interesting comments from producers in Canada. http://jcmilkblog.blogspot.com/
Bridon Farms has recently overhauled their website, hosted and designed by Jersey Canada. It can be found at www.jerseycanada.com/bridon
Unique Valleystream Genetics has also updated their website, with a new Sires page and some updated embryo listings! www.jerseycanada.com/unique
We have also updated the Jersey Canada Milk Blog with some interesting comments from producers in Canada. http://jcmilkblog.blogspot.com/
Friday, April 25, 2008
Just like seeing the movie stars in person
This has been a truly exicting late winter and early spring for Jersey Canada in about 5,000 different ways! One of the big treats for us was the arrival of a large study tour group from South Africa and Australia on April 9. The tour was organized by the Semex Alliance, head-quartered right here in Guelph. They worked with Semex SA and Semex Australia/New Zealand to put an exciting nine-day program together!
Among the visitors were Semex SA staff and 18 dairy producers from South Africa and one intrepid Aussie, Wayne Kuhne of the famed Bushlea herd at Gippsland in the state of Victoria in the land "down-under"!
We could tell you of a long string of highlights for the group as they travelled across Ontario and Quebec seeing great Jersey herds and meeting wonderful, welcoming Jersey owners.
For today, however; just one brief story!!
On Wednesday, April 17 the first port of call was Semex partner unit CIAQ at St-Hyacinthe, Quebec. One portion of the visit to CIAQ was seeing five members of Semex's proven sire team in the unit's clean and very tidy barns. While they had to be viewed through glass, for health reasons, it was still a special moment for the group as they observed Pine Haven Senior; Bridon Remake Comerica; Hollylane Lilibet's Legacy; a sprightly SHF Centurion Sultan set to be ten years young on June 1st, and new number one LPI sire Lencrest Blackstone. Cameras and cell phones flashed as picture after picture of these lads were made.
Once the photo taking and viewing/gazing session was over it was off to two exciting and informative farm visits at Elmsmead and Lencrest in Quebec's scenic Eastern Townships. Later that evening as the tour bus approached St-Hyacinthe again one of the younger South African visitors came forward to the front of the bus and made a very interesting observation. He said, more or less, "I know it is only looking at a bunch of mature Jersey bulls earlier today. However, some of us have used a lot of semen from some of these bulls in our herds. Seeing them today was neat because it was just like watching a movie with big stars acting in it and then going out in public and seeing those movie stars in person and live, right in front of you!" Neat perspective!
We'll do some more blogging about this historic visit of keen and capable Jersey breeders in later blogs! For now, Jersey on!
Among the visitors were Semex SA staff and 18 dairy producers from South Africa and one intrepid Aussie, Wayne Kuhne of the famed Bushlea herd at Gippsland in the state of Victoria in the land "down-under"!
We could tell you of a long string of highlights for the group as they travelled across Ontario and Quebec seeing great Jersey herds and meeting wonderful, welcoming Jersey owners.
For today, however; just one brief story!!
On Wednesday, April 17 the first port of call was Semex partner unit CIAQ at St-Hyacinthe, Quebec. One portion of the visit to CIAQ was seeing five members of Semex's proven sire team in the unit's clean and very tidy barns. While they had to be viewed through glass, for health reasons, it was still a special moment for the group as they observed Pine Haven Senior; Bridon Remake Comerica; Hollylane Lilibet's Legacy; a sprightly SHF Centurion Sultan set to be ten years young on June 1st, and new number one LPI sire Lencrest Blackstone. Cameras and cell phones flashed as picture after picture of these lads were made.
Once the photo taking and viewing/gazing session was over it was off to two exciting and informative farm visits at Elmsmead and Lencrest in Quebec's scenic Eastern Townships. Later that evening as the tour bus approached St-Hyacinthe again one of the younger South African visitors came forward to the front of the bus and made a very interesting observation. He said, more or less, "I know it is only looking at a bunch of mature Jersey bulls earlier today. However, some of us have used a lot of semen from some of these bulls in our herds. Seeing them today was neat because it was just like watching a movie with big stars acting in it and then going out in public and seeing those movie stars in person and live, right in front of you!" Neat perspective!
We'll do some more blogging about this historic visit of keen and capable Jersey breeders in later blogs! For now, Jersey on!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Newly Updated Websites!
We have been busy updating some of the high-quality websites that we host! Check out these sites with their new web updates!
Ferme Lencrest - The Bowers family, Coaticook, QC
Unique Valleystream Genetics - The Morey family, Rochester, AB
Jersey Atlantic - our regional Jersey association for the Atlantic provinces!
Contact us today for your website quote!!
Ferme Lencrest - The Bowers family, Coaticook, QC
Unique Valleystream Genetics - The Morey family, Rochester, AB
Jersey Atlantic - our regional Jersey association for the Atlantic provinces!
Contact us today for your website quote!!
Friday, January 25, 2008
And the Celebrating Continues!
Okay, we recently told you the highly stimulating news about our 2007 membership total being at its highest level since 1968, 39 years earlier! We did not mention, in the latest posting, that our 2007 memberships were 28% above our 2001 membership level! That is more than a quarter higher in six years!
Today we have a related statistic to share with you! Through the able work of a regional Jersey promoter we were guided to a set of statistics that are totally indicative of where the Jersey breed is going in Canada! The statistics relate to the number of milk-recorded dairy herds in Canada that have a Jersey component! This may be one Jersey cow or it may be 100 cows. Anyhow, from 2001 to late 2007 the number of milk-recorded herds in Canada in which registered Jerseys are present grew from 607 to 1,004! This is an increase of 65% in six years! Aligned with this is the fact that the 1,004 herds with some Jerseys in them represent just a tiny smidge under 10% of all milk-recorded herds in Canada!
Talk about growth, talk about potential and opportunity, talk about energy and momentum! Yes, it is a changing world. With regard to dairy herds across Canada one noticable change has been that many more are now sporting a Jersey presence than was the case at the start of this decade!
We'll build on that!
We'll build on that!
Celebrating in JerseyCanadaland
In various ways Jersey Canada has been working to share some very good news from 2007 Awith the dairy world! Early in January 2008 we prepared a "wrap up" news release regarding the year we had had in 2007. And yes, we are well aware of the wisdom of the old adage about the dangers of believing your own news releases! During the process of creating the release this thought did come to mind: Can all this really be true!??
One aspect of the news we had to share was the fact that in 2007 our Jersey Canada memberships were at their highest level since 1968! Now, 1968 would be 39 years earlier!! We are quite convinced that livestock/breed associations that can lay claim to their highest membership in 39 years are pretty rare creatures in this era!
We're so thankful for even this one happening alone! This accomplishment has to say something significant about where the Jersey breed in Canada is going! This amazing level of activity is the result of years of hard work and dedication by Jersey owners across Canada. It is also a testament to the way today's Jersey cow fits the needs of today's industry!
When you stop and think about how many dairy farms there were in Canada in 1968 and how many there are today (there were about ten times as many back then!) this achievement becomes that much more amazing! We'll use what happened in 2007 as a stimulus to doing even more in 2008!
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