Led by PhD student Amanda Armstrong and Dr. David Kelton, a professor in the Ontario Veterinary College, the team set out to better understand the relationship between hock and knee injuries and lameness in dairy cattle. They wanted to know what causes these injuries and how they can be resolved.
Supporting food security in Northern Ontario First Nations, making biocomposite parts for electric vehicles and using robotics for weeding vegetable crops are among the nearly 50 University of Guelph agri-food research projects to receive over $8 million in new funding from the Ontario government.
Announced today, the funding is intended to develop U of G innovations that support industry and make a difference to Ontario farmers and consumers.
A cutting-edge quarantine, isolation and recirculation facility opened today at the Ontario Aquaculture Research Centre in Alma, thanks to a $4.5-million investment from the Government of Ontario through the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario, and with support from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.
Join Guilherme Madureira this summer as he speaks with Dairy at Guelph faculty on the latest research – everything from dairy calf nutrition and management to designing breeding strategies for long-term and sustainable genetic improvement. New episodes are available each month on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or you can listen on the DairyatGuelph.ca website.
A University of Guelph study has found that reducing cow milking frequency can help treat ketosis, a common metabolic disorder that occurs within two weeks of delivering a calf.
This research was funded by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a collaboration between the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the University of Guelph.
Calling all U of G researchers: students, staff and faculty!
Learn how to use photography to tell your research story. Sign up for one of two free workshops: at the University of Guelph Arboretum or at the Ontario Dairy Research Centre in Elora.
Each workshop consists of a one-hour session, followed by an optional 30-minute Q&A with instructor Richelle Forsey, Photography Department Technician for the U of G School of Fine Art and Music.
Participants will explore:
Cattle are not the only ones enjoying the benefits of the Ontario Beef Research Centre’s greener pastures. That’s because the renewed and expanded 121-hectare perennial pastures just outside Elora provide more than a bovine buffet—their unique design makes them living laboratories, enabling research that aims to help beef producers lower the cost of production, safeguard the environment and increase profitability.
It's the season for June-bearing strawberries, but "day-neutral" varieties produce fruit all year.
Several decades ago, researchers found a trait in wild strawberries that allowed them to flower and produce fruit all season. They bred this trait into commercial varieties, according to John Zandstra, professor in fruit and vegetable cropping systems at U of G's Ridgetown campus.
As a result, strawberries can now be grown in Canada year-round and there is no 'best" time to eat them.
Dr. Todd Duffield, chair of the Department of Population Medicine at U of G, has spent 20 years researching how to manage pain in young dairy calves, thanks in part to long-term funding from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance (Alliance), a collaboration between the Ontario government and the University of Guelph. Much of his work has focused on the practice of disbudding, or the removal of horn buds on young calves.
The first national genetic evaluation in the world to help select low-methane dairy cows is based on University of Guelph research, with funding from various organizations including the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a collaboration between the Government of Ontario and the University of Guelph.
The technology is expected to help reduce farm greenhouse gas emissions without affecting milk production.