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In research funded in part by the Alliance, Kelsey Boucher has evaluated sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soybeans over the past two years, testing about 250 different soybean varieties. This will lead over the long term to her long-term goal of producing hardier soybean crops, particularly those with more disease resistance.

Boucher is supervised by U of G researchers Dr. Istavan Rajcan and Dr. Milad Eskandari.

Chowdhury, an Alliance-funded researcher, was awarded $70,000 for his work in Getting Research into Practice (GRIP) and Dr. Sam Workenhe receives $40,000 to further his work in discovering and developing antiviral treatments for highly pathogenic livestock and poultry viruses.

U of G’s Ridgetown Campus has added a world-class field crop pathologist to its teaching and research repertoire. Leading pathologist, Dr. Gursahib Singh is Ridgetown’s new Grain Farmers of Ontario Professorship in Field Crop Pathology. Dr. Singh joins the University of Guelph from Irrigation Saskatchewan (formerly ICDC) where he served as Research Director.

The new position is supported by a $2-million gift from the Grain Farmers of Ontario.

Join Mike Cowbrough, weed specialist at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, as he talks about scouting for herbicide-resistant weeds. 

Watch on RealAgriculture.com: Soybean School: Scouting for fringe weeds maximizes herbicide tolerant technology – RealAgriculture

It was part of the AgRobotics Demo Day held in July, which brought together a large crowd of growers, researchers and industry representatives.

Read more about the asparagus robot's labour-saving abilities and the Ontario AgRobotics Working Group in The Hamilton Spectator: Simcoe robotics fair on the cutting edge of agriculture

A team of 24 University of Guelph students took part in the NorthEastern Weed Science Collegiate Contest at the NCSU Education Farm in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The U of G students were tested on their skills and knowledge in plant identification, herbicide symptomology diagnostic, sprayer calibration and agronomy problem-solving.

Read more, including individuals' placements, on the Plant Agriculture website: Weeds Team Wins it All 

The RFS clinic is an important part of Alliance’s Veterinary Capacity Program. Since 1953, the RFS clinic has provided veterinary services to the community and on-farm learning for student veterinarians.

A new six-year training program co-led by researchers at the University of Guelph will use a One Health approach to build national capacity for the next pandemic – the first training of its kind in Canada.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research awarded U of G and other university, government and non-governmental organization partners $2.7 million to co-create the new bilingual training program, titled the Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses (COHTPEZ). 

Researchers at the University of Guelph’s Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre welcomed Ontario’s Minister of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness Rob Flack to campus last week to hear about the impact of technology developed with funding from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.