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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.

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.