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Alliance researcher Dr. Dorothee Bienzle honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award

The recently retired professor emerita in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Pathobiology was honoured by the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work in veterinary clinical pathology.

Bienzle's equine asthma research has been funded in part by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

Alliance-funded research published in National Hog Farmer magazine

The recent issues includes "Using yeast in sow diets to optimize piglet growth", a summary of U of G research recently published in the Journal of Animal Science. 

PhD student and HQP Scholar Hannah Christensen, Dr. Elijah Kiarie and Dr. Lee-Ann Huber, along with Hagen Schulze, the innovation and technical director at Livalta, write that their study has shown yeast additives are a promising alternative to in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide (ZnO).

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Alliance research helps communities find the balance between farmland preservation and economic growth

Helping to balance often-competing priorities in Canada’s rural communities is the goal for experts connected with the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), including many researchers and graduates whose work reflects literal field experience.

Sharing research results on land use planning with practitioners is partly the focus for Dr. Sara Epp, who studies land use conflicts.

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Alliance researchers breeding the perfect wheat to resist major diseases; student-developed ag-tech solution poised to help

The U of G wheat breeding program is a feat of industry and government collaboration to supply the world with healthy grains. 

Together with private and public partners and a team of professional staff, graduate and undergraduate students, Dr. Helen Booker breeds varieties for disease resistance but also for traits economically critical to farmers: high yield, optimal maturity time, height and structural strength.

Since Booker took over leadership in 2020, the program has already brought five new varieties of wheat to market.

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Top 10 feast-worthy foods brought to you by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance

Is fresh Ontario-grown food on your plate this fall? Whether you’re celebrating the harvest or just enjoying seasonal produce, chances are you’re sampling the results of research and innovation coming from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

For more than 150 years, the Government of Ontario and U of G have worked together for the benefit of the province’s food producers and processors. The collaboration, known as the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, supports farmers so you can bring home healthy local food to your family.

Lighting research lays foundation for improving turkey production

When Clara Ziezold walked into a lecture hall one day during her undergrad at the University of Guelph, she couldn’t have known the guest speaker would set her on a course to research ways to improve reproductive efficiency for the Ontario turkey industry.

Now a PhD candidate in U of G’s Department of Animal Biosciences, Ziezold has completed several projects on the impact of lighting on turkey breeder hen performance, helping build a bigger body of work to support greater productivity for the turkey sector.

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