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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.

The company came out on top of the competition that was hosted as an extension of the Gryphon's LAAIR program.

Read the full article on CBC News: Award-winning idea aims to produce healthy sugar substitute for diabetics or see past projects funded through Gryphon's LAAIR.

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. 

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.

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. 

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 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.  

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.

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.

Woodhouse and her adviser, Dr. David Kelton, looked at 300 on-farm bulk tanks and tracked several on-farm practices.

Read the article on Hoard's Dairymen: Let’s better keep dairy fat fully intact

See Woodhouse's HQP scholar profile to learn more about her research.