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Q&A with a stud hand

Shelby Avann is a graduate of the equine management major who sat down with us to share her career experiences so far. She currently works at Chiefswood Stables Thoroughbred Breeding Farm, which focuses on foaling and raising fillies and colts for racing. The foals she helps birth go on to race at Woodbine here in Ontario and also in Florida, Kentucky and New York. She’s been in the role for three years, with a year in between working abroad in Australia.

Dylan shakes hands with a farmer.

Students improving life: Dylan Sher

Dylan Sher, food and agricultural business student, is improving life through informative storytelling of the food system.  

Head shot of Joe with Joe Ippolito, Produce Sales & Operations Manager and BBRM ‘10, MBA ‘18 overlaid in text.

Q&A with a produce sales & operations manager

Joe Ippolito is a graduate of the Bachelor of Bio-Resource Management program who we recently sat down with to talk about his career with the family business: the Ippolito Group. OAC alumni are probably most familiar with the business, which grows and packages fresh produce throughout North America, through their retail brand Queen Victoria.

First Nations water research receives $371,300 in funding

Researchers from U of G and Western University will study water arrangements between First Nations and municipalities in Ontario through new funding from the Insight Grants program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

“On many First Nations reserves across Canada, lack of safe drinking water is a chronic problem,” said Prof. Brady Deaton, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, who will lead the project with Prof. Sheri Longboat, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development. The researchers received $371,300.

U of G Experts Recommend Fav Recipes

​We asked experts in the Department of Food Science and the Department of Plant Agriculture to share some of their favourite recipes that highlight an ingredient they work with each day. Check out the below for some proudly Canadian recipes. 

Head shot of Hayley.

Students improving life: Hayley Tompkins

Hayley Tompkins, environmental sciences student, is improving life through conservation efforts that support pollination and food production.

Head shot of Thomas.

Q&A with a Dairy Account Manager

Our friends in the USA are celebrating National Dairy Month, in honour of this, we wanted to celebrate too by featuring some alumni who work in the dairy industry.

Nikki stands next to a large Grober sign.

Q&A with an Animal Nutritionist

Our friends in the USA are celebrating National Dairy Month, in honour of this we wanted to celebrate too by featuring some alumni who work in the dairy industry.

The OAC class of 57 stands around the cannon

The mystery of the missing cannon

The University of Guelph’s George III cannon named “Old Jeremiah” has been a fixture on campus since the 1880s when it was acquired by the Ontario Agricultural College and placed in front of Johnston Hall. It has moved around campus many times, but for a couple of years in the mid- 1950s it disappeared.

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