Dairy Labor and their care

Practice for the Care, Dairy Cattle

Farmers must respect the laws on animal care too. Abuse and negligence are not accepted in the industry. Dairy Farmers of Canada and the National Farm Animal Care Council have collaborated with scientists and government experts and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies to update the practice for the care. 

• Dairy is one of the top two agricultural sectors in 7 of 10 Canadian provinces.
• The sector's GDP contribution has increased from $18.9 billion in 2013 to $19, 9 billion in 2016
• Jobs have changed, decreasing at the farm level and increasing in value-added processing level, remaining around 220,936.
• Canadian dairy farms shipped 8.2 billion litres in 2015, up from 7.6 billion litres of milk in 2009.
• In 2015, the Canadian dairy industry contributed $3.8B in local, provincial and federal taxes.
• In 2015, Canadians spend less than 10% of disposable income on food, one of the lowest in the world (1.00% on dairy)