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(National Post - August 27) DID YOU KNOW With all the fan fare and lime light of milking parlours = and manure equipment many products Pacific Dairy Centre handle can get over= looked. The following is a list of some of these products in the “did= you know” that we handle these:
All of these are in stock. SPARE PARTS Due to the lengthening of milking times and constraints o= n schedules the following is a good sample list of parts to have on hand:
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EXPENSIVE COW With some of the large US banks and insurance companies g= etting into trouble these days, there is a lot of apprehension in regards t= o spending money or investing, especially south of the border. Right in the= middle of it all, an auction, put on by an artist Damien Hirst with Sotheb= y Auctioneers. They sold in one day over 150 million dollars worth of stran= ge artwork. One of the pieces which went for the highest price was a cow in= a plexi-glass box suspended in formaldehyde. It went for 9 million dollars= , I am sure that is a record for 1 cow. GOLF THANKS We would like to thank all of the people who came out to = our annual PDC Texas Scramble Golf Tournament at Ledgeview Golf and Country= Club. The top foursome got a 9 under and the bottom team (most honest) got= a 12 over. We would also like to thank our sponsors for the great prizes:<= /span> BMO Bank of Montreal, Godoy and Ververgeart Insurance, RT= Holdings, Brooks Electric, Southern Drip, HSBC, Lordco, Wainbee, CanWest W= ire and Rope, Chilliwack Water Store, Fraser Valley Refrigeration, Unitex S= ales, Rona ,Hub International, Cadman Equipment, Wiseworth Canada, Fraser V= alley Steel and Wire, Integrated Bio Systems, UAS Industries, Raider Hansen= , Eagle West, Univar, Encore Metals, Ritchie Smith, Ecolab, Gregg Distribut= ors and Lauren Agri Systems. We couldn't forget the great steaks we had for dinner! UPCOMING EVENTS Manure Seminar Tour - November Dairy Plan Training - December To attend or for more info please call us at the office 6= 04-852-9020. |
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Newsletter Volume 25 No.10 |
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WELCOME We would like to welcome Ed Brink = to the Pacific Dairy Team! Many of you know Ed through his many diligent ye= ars with Westgen. Ed will be working closely with Gary Omerod delivering ro= ute supplies and services. This will allow Gary to spend more time working = with new customers. We would also like to give the Jansen Family a huge tha= nks for a great memorable open house at their dairy in the Okanagan. = There were over a thousand people that attended with 5 huge tents on top of= the drive over scale. The Westfalia Surge 50 Stall Rotary was a pleasure t= o watch! VACUUM PUMP IMPROVEMENT We have made a transition from Sutorbilt Lobe Vacuum Pump= s which have oil in one end and grease on the other, to Westfalia Surge Tut= hill Lobe Vacuum Pumps. Tuthill Vacuum Pumps have oil baths on both ends an= d Teflon coated lobes. This eliminates monthly greasing and the pumps will = last longer. GRAZING COWS A grazing cow might be able to tell you which way is nort= h. European scientists who studied images of cows and deer have discovered = they tend to align themselves with the earths north-south magnetic fi= eld while grazing or resting. While birds, turtles and salmon are known to = use magnetic guidance to migrate, cattle were not previously known to posse= s an inner compass. “Amazingly, this ubiquitous phenomenon does not s= eem to have been noticed by herdsmen, ranchers or hunters” said the s= tudy, co written by Sabine Begall of Germany’s University of Duisburg= -Essen. Researchers used Google Earth Software to study the alignment of 85= 70 cows in 308 pastures worldwide. |
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