As reported on hortidaily.com, a team of graduate engineering students from U of G, led by engineering professor Dr. David Lubitz, will be collecting data from the owner and head grower for a passive solar year-round greenhouse in Ottawa. Rob Lyle's HighYield™ greenhouse will be part of a larger study of commercial greenhouse efficiency throughout Ontario, Canada.
A University of Guelph researcher is using automated data collection to help farmers create individual feeding plans to improve the health and production of their dairy cows.
Patty Kedzierski, a PhD candidate and highly qualified personnel (HQP) scholar in the Department of Animal Biosciences at the Ontario Agricultural College, studies production differences between dairy cows.
In this Alliance-funded research, Dr. Adam Gillespie and team developed a tool that creates a soil "fingerprint" using infrared spectroscopy.
The technology could replace traditional time-consuming and costly methods that involve extracting samples and sending them to a lab to be analyzed.
The tool is being tested on research farms. The fingerprint also provides database-informed, regional-specific soil management recommendations for producers.