Competitive Production Systems Projects

Building an Application Programming Interface to make data collected on livestock farms available for analysis and decision making related to competitiveness and sustainability

Lead Applicant: John Cant

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2025/2026

Research Centre: Ontario Dairy Research Centre

Nutritional strategies for supporting egg production persistency and livability in laying hens

Lead Applicant: Elijah Kiarie

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2025/2026

Research Centre: Ontario Poultry Research Centre - Arkell

Advanced Phenomics and Genomics for Enhanced Anthracnose Resistance in Ontario Dry Beans

Lead Applicant: Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2025/2026

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Elora, Woodstock

Does dietary guanidinoacetic acid and rumen protected methionine supplementation improve performance, carcass yield, and meat quality traits of beef finishing steers?

Lead Applicant: Marcio Duarte

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: Ontario Beef Research Centre - Elora

Phenotyping SoyMAGIC population to uncover genetic control of drought tolerance

Lead Applicant: Hugh Earl

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Using a novel 'queen banking' approach combined with targeted application of probiotics to enhance domestic production of high-quality honeybee stocks

Lead Applicant: Emma Allen-Vercoe

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Decarbonizing Ontario greenhouse heating and CO2 production by simulating optimal technology configurations and operating protocols

Lead Applicant: William Lubitz

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Automation and autonomy for growing strawberry in greenhouses

Lead Applicant: Medhat Moussa

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Developing a harvesting robot for tomato greenhouses: Expanded field testing and enhancing performance

Lead Applicant: Medhat Moussa

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

How food labels and social nudges change market outcomes for vertically farmed products: An experimental economics study through the lens of artefactual markets

Lead Applicant: Tongzhe Li

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA