{"id":3677,"date":"2025-09-20T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:01:59","slug":"canadian-dairy-expertise-comes-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/canadian-dairy-expertise-comes-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Dairy Expertise Comes to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are thrilled that <strong>Steve Veldman<\/strong>, proprietor of <strong>Velrob Farms<\/strong> in Embro, Ontario, and a member of the <strong>Gay Lea Foods Co-operative<\/strong>, has agreed to visit Uganda to share his farm experience. During our conversation, Steve spoke about his approach to <strong>sustainable dairy farming<\/strong> and how the Gay Lea Foods Co-operative helps farmers increase productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are especially excited to learn from him on a range of topics, including <strong>succession planning<\/strong>, <strong>commercialization<\/strong>, and ways to make co-operatives more effective. Tapping into Steve\u2019s hands-on experience will be an invaluable opportunity for our farmers and partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Velrob Farms, owned by <strong>Steve and Carol Veldman<\/strong>, is known for its strong focus on <strong>sustainability<\/strong> and <strong>energy efficiency<\/strong>. The farm has received recognition for its innovative approaches to <strong>energy conservation<\/strong> and <strong>labor efficiency<\/strong>, making it a model for progressive dairy farming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled that Steve Veldman, proprietor of Velrob Farms in Embro, Ontario, and a member of the Gay Lea Foods Co-operative, has agreed to visit Uganda to share his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","item-inner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Steve-Gay-Lea-Coop-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekama.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}