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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.

Helping to balance often-competing priorities in Canada’s rural communities is the goal for experts connected with the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), including many researchers and graduates whose work reflects literal field experience.

Sharing research results on land use planning with practitioners is partly the focus for Dr. Sara Epp, who studies land use conflicts.

The U of G wheat breeding program is a feat of industry and government collaboration to supply the world with healthy grains. 

Together with private and public partners and a team of professional staff, graduate and undergraduate students, Dr. Helen Booker breeds varieties for disease resistance but also for traits economically critical to farmers: high yield, optimal maturity time, height and structural strength.

Since Booker took over leadership in 2020, the program has already brought five new varieties of wheat to market.