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During this time, our thoughts are with all those affected by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) around the world.

Like any family, we are in this together and we are here for you.

For us, that means continuing to safely produce the essential products that our communities rely on with the utmost of care. On the ground, we have implemented the strict precautionary measures from local and global experts to help keep our people safe. We want to express our gratitude to every Saputo employee for their ongoing passion and dedication during these unprecedented times.Read more

Animal Welfare Partnerships

We believe education and training are the best way to share best practices.
 
In addition to promoting recognized standards of animal care throughout our supply chain, we are also committed to supporting initiatives and programs that promote awareness and training opportunities to help advance animal welfare issues.

We also established a new partnership with the University of British Colombia’s world-leading Animal Welfare Program with a focus on calf and heifer rearing, cow health and lameness, and housing/facilities management. These are in addition to our existing partnerships with the University of Guelph and the University of Wisconsin.
 
The Saputo Dairy Care Program


The Saputo Dairy Care Program is offered at the University of Guelph through the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare and the Ontario Veterinary College. This program focuses on providing practical dairy welfare education, including workshops, to veterinary students, veterinary practitioners, and dairy producers.
 
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, Saputo contributes to funding two important initiatives:
 
The Dairyland Initiative
The Dairyland Initiative provides resources, consulting services and workshops to develop animal welfare-friendly housing for dairy cattle, and making each of these important tools accessible to all dairy producers and participating professionals around the world.

In FY21, Saputo expanded its support for the Dairyland Initiative of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, which allows faculty and staff to continue to provide twice-yearly workshops for farmers, veterinarians, nutritionists, and industry consultants. We also renewed our support for the Saputo Dairy Care Program developed to provide specific dairy welfare training, in collaboration with the University of Guelph and the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare.

As a result, despite the pandemic, we continued to impact more than 38,000 people through a variety of initiatives in FY21, including workshops and webinars, industry presentations, and access to online training tools, which were either hosted or made available by our partners or our field staff.

LifeStep™ Program
The development of the LifeStep™ Program will focus on low-stress cattle handling approaches, lameness prevention and end of life management.
 

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