Tier 1 Projects

Exploring producer motivations and management practices associated with internal teat sealant use and teat sealant residues on farms with automated milking systems

Lead Applicant: Rita Couto Serrenho

Research Priority: Animal Health & Welfare

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Progressing towards dairy calves resilient to heat stress: Effects of epigenetics, housing, and management

Lead Applicant: Trevor DeVries

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Sow mortality in Ontario: A comprehensive study to assess trends and identify risk factors

Lead Applicant: Terri O'Sullivan

Research Priority: Animal Health & Welfare

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Investigating kinetics and biology of mucosal immunity to gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep

Lead Applicant: Emma Borkowski

Research Priority: Animal Health & Welfare

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: Ontario Sheep Research Centre - Ponsonby

Evaluating sustainable bedding materials to enhance dairy cow health and welfare in Ontario compost-bedded pack housing systems

Lead Applicant: Renee Bergeron

Research Priority: Animal Health & Welfare

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Cost effective carbon capture and re-use system for sustainable farming

Lead Applicant: Wael Ahmed

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Characterizing the exposure of soil and field crops to per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances from the land application of biosolids

Lead Applicant: Ryan Prosser

Research Priority: Sustainable Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Reducing cold sweetening in stored potato tubers to improve processing quality

Lead Applicant: Ian Tetlow

Research Priority: Innovative Products & Product Improvement

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Developing pure fungal mycelium materials with tunable properties as advanced and carbon-neutral packaging alternatives from agri-food resources

Lead Applicant: Guneet Kaur

Research Priority: Innovative Products & Product Improvement

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Dietary supplementation of prebiotics and organic minerals to improve growth performance, gut health, immunity and genetics of rainbow trout subject to low, moderate and high temperatures

Lead Applicant: David Huyben

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: Ontario Aquaculture Research Centre