Environmental Sustainability

INFOGRAPHICS

• Water Use in the Canadian Dairy Industry

• What does Climate Change Mean for Heat Stress in the Canadian Dairy Industry?

ANIMATED VIDEOS

• What Do We Need to Know About Managing Bunker Silo Effluent?

• Dairy Water Use Efficiency - Free Stall Pond Fed Farm

• Dairy Water Use Efficiency - Flush Free Stall Robotic Barn

• Dairy Water Use Efficiency - Tie Stall

• Dairy Water Use Efficiency - Rotary Barn

• Dairy Water Use Efficiency - Free Stall Barn

WEBINARS

• Reducing the Water Footprint of Milk Production

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

• VanderZaag, A., E. Le Riche, B. Qian, W. Smith, H. Baldé, V. Ouellet, É. Charbonneau, T. Wright, R. Gordon. 2023. Trends in the risk of heat stress to Canadian dairy cattle in a changing climate. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 00: 1-15.   https://doi.org/10.1139/cjas-2023-0040

• Pluer, W.T., J.M. Plach, A. Hassan, D. Price, M.L. Macrae. 2022 Retention of phosphorus in soils receiving bunker silo effluent. J. Environ. Manage. 323, 116147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116147

• VanderZaag, A., E. LeRiche, H. Baldé, S. Kallil, V. Ouellet, E. Charbonneau, T. Coates, T. Wright, P. Luimes, R. Gordon. 2023 Comparing thermal conditions inside and outside lactating dairy cattle barns in Canada. J. Dairy Sci. 106(7): 4738. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2022-22870

• Al-Bahouh, M., V. Osborne, T. Wright, M. Dixon, A. VanderZaag, R. Gordon. 2021. Blue water footprints of Ontario dairy farms. Water 13: 2230. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162230

• Mohsenimanesh, A., E.L. LeRiche, R. Gordon, S. Clarke, R.D. MacDonald, I. MacKinnon, A. VanderZaag. 2021. Review: Dairy Farm Electricity Use, Conservation, and Renewable Production - A Global Perspective. Appl. Eng. Agric. 37(5): 977. https://doi.org/10.13031/aea.14621

• Price, D.W., J.M. Plach, H.P. Jarvie, M.L. Macrae. 2021. Contribution of bunker silo effluent discharged via a riparian zone to watershed phosphorus loads. J. Great Lakes Res. 47(5): 1296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.08.004