Understanding the dairy beef production system in Atlantic Canada

This is supplementary data for a paper to be submitted titled, "Marketing Routes, Health Management Practices, and Challenges in Dairy-Beef Production: Producer Perspectives from Atlantic Canada". The purpose of the project is to identify how dairy beef animals are raised in Atlantic Canada and how the different stakeholders are connected through the production chain. Project objectives are as follows: 1) To identify the stakeholders and the dairy-beef production chain in Atlantic Canada. 2) To characterize the dairy-beef production systems in Atlantic Canada in terms of demographics and general management practices. 3) To describe dairy producers’ motivations and challenges toward the dairy-beef production. 4) To describe the commercial routes of dairy beef animals in Atlantic Canada. 5) To describe the antibiotic use practices throughout the dairy-beef production chain in Atlantic Canada.