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Firefighters from Amherstburg, Essex, Kingsville, Leamington and Tecumseh joined first responders from the OPP and RCMP for the day-long training program hosted by Equine Guelph at the Windsor-Essex Therapeutic Riding Association (WETRA).

As reported by CTV News, the course equips emergency personnel with skills to manage animals stuck in mud, overturned trailers and other complex scenarios where human and animal lives may be at risk.

The Dairy at Guelph director clears up miconceptions about dairy quality and safety in Ontario.

LeBlanc is also a professor in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Population Medicine. 

The TVO Today segment in which his interview appears delves into what makes safe, quality dairy in Canada, addressing feed, veterinary care, antibiotics, hormones, and animal welfare.

It includes perspectives from two dairies as well.

Speaking to the Globe and Mail, von Massow, food economist and Alliance-funded researcher in the Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, discussed the relationship between inflation and the pressure consumers feel to tip more. 

Read the story: Inflation is improving, but pervasive tipping makes Canadians feel otherwise - The Globe and Mail

Warriner, Alliance-funded researcher and professor in the Department of Food Science, spoke to Reuters, Global News, and A Little More Conversation with Ben O’Hara-Byrne after an E.

Connecting graduate students with a range of organizations in the agriculture, environment, food and community sectors is the goal of a new master’s-level internship course at the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), titled Internship in Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Communities.

In light of recent Listeria outbreaks affecting plant-based milks, meat products and waffles, Dr. Lawrence Goodridge has has been interviewed by CBC, CTV and City News.

Farmtario spoke with Dr. Michael Steele about the quickly evolving sector and his Alliance-funded research into optimizing crossbred calf performance, health and welfare.

Steele has found that feeding high-energy diets to dairy beef animals post-weaning can result in highly efficient gains and animals ready for processing at 12 months, “which is really incredible and extremely efficient."

In an interview filmed at the Ontario Crops Research Centre in Elora, U of G researcher Dr. Helen Booker spoke about developing wheat resistant to Fusarium Head Blight Disease.

The recently retired professor emerita in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Pathobiology was honoured by the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work in veterinary clinical pathology.

Bienzle's equine asthma research has been funded in part by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

The recent issues includes "Using yeast in sow diets to optimize piglet growth", a summary of U of G research recently published in the Journal of Animal Science. 

PhD student and HQP Scholar Hannah Christensen, Dr. Elijah Kiarie and Dr. Lee-Ann Huber, along with Hagen Schulze, the innovation and technical director at Livalta, write that their study has shown yeast additives are a promising alternative to in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide (ZnO).