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).
The food economy expert explains some of the complicated reasons food prices are staying up, from availability to foreign competition. Read the article in the Financial Post: High food prices here to stay even if inflation crisis may be over
Weese addressed the "particular concern" related to food animals in his conversation with CBC host Ismaila Alfa.
Weese is a professor in the Ontario Veterinary College and Director of U of G’s Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ), which receives funding through the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.
The results can help the poultry industry take rapid action.
Ontario Farmer spoke with Dr. Shayan Sharif and Dr. Rozita Dara, researchers in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Pathobiology and College of Engineering and Physical Sciences' School of Computer Science, respectively.