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Addressing the gap of highly skilled talent in the agri-food sector and promoting the University of Guelph as a destination of choice for students from around the world are the focus of several new scholarships.

Thanks to a $2-million gift from U of G alumnus Andy Wilder (BSc Agr. ‘84), three new scholarships have been created to attract top Canadian and international students to the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) to pursue a career in the Canadian agri-food sector.  

The U of G Canada GOOSE (Growth Options for Outer Space Environments) team is made up of students and staff from the Ontario Agricultural College with members from the Interdisciplinary Design Lab, College of Arts and their external partner from Noki Farms (Guelph).

An Alliance Special Initiatives project led by Dr. Silvia Sarapura, professor in U of G's Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), aims to improve food security among First Nations communities in northern Ontario. 

The project is featured as part of a series exploring the ways in which OAC creates a more efficient, prosperous and sustainable global agriculture and food system.

Huber currently has four active research streams, all with projects underway at the new Ontario Swine Research Centre in Elora.

Read about her projects investigating lactating sows, amino acids, mammary development and novel feed ingredients on the Livestock Research Innovation Corporation (LRIC) website: Using research to solve practical swine industry problems

She is one of six leaders who have positively influenced Ontario agriculture and who will be inducted into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame (OAHF) this June.

The pumps, called FloMov, were created using the research of Dr. Wael Ahmed, researcher in the U of G School of Engineering.

Research from long-term trials at the Ontario Crops Research Centre in Ridgetown shows that diversifying corn-soy rotations to include wheat can have a significant impact on corn and soybean yields, increasing yields of the two crops between six and 17 bushels per acre.

Some cows can be more curious than others, while others more shy and some may even be quite aggressive. With funding in part from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, researchers at the University of Guelph are looking at the connection between a cow’s personality and her milking performance.

This partnership will see students and scientists from both institutions collborating to communicate about the incredibly important and groundbreaking work U of G's Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) does every day.

The survey will help promote the identification, documentation, protection and preservation of barns across the province.

The not-for-profit Ontario Barn Preservation partnered with Kimberley Martin, assistant professor of History at the University of Guelph.

Start the Your Old Barn Study via this link.