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Dr. Tongzhe Li, new Arrell Family Chair at U of G, to focus on "people side" of agri-economics

The professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics within the Ontario Agricultural College brings together economics and human behaviour through projects ranging from farmer incentive programs to agri-food employee retention to vertical farming, Li said her work helps improve decision making by governments, non-governmental organizations and producer groups. 

Senators dig into soil at the grassroots level at the Ontario Crops Research Centre in Elora

Agriculture and Forestry Senate Committee goes completed a three-day fact-finding tour of farms, agriculture businesses, and Ontario's agri-food research centres, which are owned by the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario and managed by the University of Guelph through the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

They said this tour provided insight into the value of research continuity, data sharing and extension.

A collage of photos from the April KTT events.

Alliance advances KTT in agri-food during April events

Two April events supported by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance brought together local and international experts in agricultural knowledge translation and transfer (KTT) to share ideas and best practices. 

Alliance provides foundation for U of G research and technological innovation

Blockchain—or any advanced analysis in the food system—first requires that a critical mass of food and production approaches be in place. 

The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance provides a foundation for agri-food research and innovation that is unmatched elsewhere in the country.  

“Whether they recognize it or not, researchers at Guelph who are supported through the Alliance or other funding programs are creating data that will be populating our blockchain ledgers,” says Malcolm Campbell, vice-president (research) at U of G.

Cutlery developed with Alliance support will reduce plastic, CO2 emissions

Cutlery and stir sticks made from coffee waste material and biopolymers in a certified industrially compostable biocomposite resin recently created by researchers in U of G’s Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC).

Longtime BDDC collaborator Competitive Green Technologies (CGTech) based in Leamington, Ont., licensed the formulation to make a compostable, commercially viable resin.  

Ontario investing $13.5 million in new poultry research centre in Elora

The new poultry research centre is a partnership between the Government of Ontario through the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario (ARIO) and the poultry sector’s four regulatory boards (Chicken Farmers of Ontario, Egg Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission and the Turkey Farmers of Ontario) and the University of Guelph.

Ontario improving access to veterinary care in remote and northern communities

The Ontario government is investing more than $15 million to help address veterinary shortages in rural and northern communities, making it easier for farmers and large animal owners to access veterinary care when and where they need it.

Leveraging the existing University of Guelph Doctor of Veterinary Medicine curriculum, the new DVM program will focus on the recruitment of students from northern, rural and Indigenous communities.

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