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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.

The U of G researcher's work started in 2001 at the Simcoe site of the Ontario Crops Research Centre. The new apple variety, called Providence, holds promise for the cider industry.

Read the story: New apple variety at U of G may juice up cider industry

For University of Guelph professor and researcher Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald, protecting plants has been a primary focus for the past 25 years in U of G’s Department of Plant Agriculture. But her expertise also leads her to play an important leadership role in the University’s largest partner collaboration. 

After being tested, cameras that cost about $900 less than those currently used will be installed on each of the 18 lysimeters at the Ontario Crops Research Centre in Elora.

Read the Farmtario article Annual forages can extend the grazing season about the research Dr. Kim Schneider, department of plant agriculture, is undertaking at the Ontario Beef Research Centre in Elora. 

The Research Innovation Office at the University of Guelph is excited to announce the Ontario Agri-Tech Pitch Competition in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs.

By uniting farmers, academics, agri-tech entrepreneurs and investors, this event will raise awareness about the problems worth solving and showcase investible companies.

Join us online to watch as the next generation of new Ontario-based agri-tech start-up companies battle it out to be best in class.

Researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph are studying joint health in horses and the regenerative possibilities of stem cell therapy to help unlock answers for our equine companions with the aim to ultimately translate those solutions to human health. Joint pain, once considered an ailment of aging, is now recognized as one of the most common orthopedic conditions in the human and equine world.