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The Ontario government is investing more than $15 million to help address veterinary shortages in rural and northern communities, making it easier for farmers and large animal owners to access veterinary care when and where they need it.

Leveraging the existing University of Guelph Doctor of Veterinary Medicine curriculum, the new DVM program will focus on the recruitment of students from northern, rural and Indigenous communities.

Woodhouse and her adviser, Dr. David Kelton, looked at 300 on-farm bulk tanks and tracked several on-farm practices.

Read the article on Hoard's Dairymen: Let’s better keep dairy fat fully intact

See Woodhouse's HQP scholar profile to learn more about her research.

Her work, which is also funded by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, seeks a flexible, stretchy bale wrap alternative that is easy to use on-farm.

Read the Farmtario article here or the recent Alliance research update: Scientists one step closer to a sustainable bale wrap

During his recent presentation at the South Western Ontario Dairy Symposium at Woodstock, Ont., Dr. Trevor DeVries, U of G Animal Biosciences professor and Canada Research Chair in Dairy Cattle Behaviour and Welfare, looked at key aspects of optimizing health and production on robotic dairies.

Read the article on RealAgriculture.com

The study began in fall 2020 and was followed by a larger-scale project in 2021, funded in part by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, that collected nearly 30,000 survey responses from residents in Bruce, Dufferin, Durham, Elgin, Grey, Middlesex and Oxford counties.

The goal of this research is to inform post-COVID rural policy.

The Collaborative Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program in Rural and Northern Community Practice will expand the number of veterinarians trained in Ontario who are practicing within Northern, rural and Indigenous communities, ensuring livestock producers have the necessary veterinary services needed to expand operations.

A group of Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) scholars joined Arrell Food Institute scholars from various academic disciplines for a field trip to learn about food security organizations and circular economy initiatives in the City of Guelph.

The trip is part one of the unique experiential training and education opportunities through which U of G is filling the needs of the agri-food workforce and equipping its graduates to enter a dynamic industry.

The company is set to grow Ontario’s bioeconomy by bringing its potent sugar substitute from lab to market.

Biofect Innovations, maker of a potential sugar substitute, is the $10,000 grand prize winner of the inaugural Agri-Tech Pitch Competition held through the University of Guelph.

Event attendees selected Food Security Structures Canada as the People’s Choice winner to receive $2,500.

Research at the Ontario Dairy Research Centre suggests cows with a naturally higher immune response also have a higher tolerance for increased temperatures, meaning that this research may allow dairy producers to breed cattle that better withstand heat stress. The researchers used Mallard’s High Immune Response (HIR™) technology to determine which cows had high, average or low immune responses.

Read or download the article from Dairy at Guelph.