Competitive Production Systems Projects

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

Data-driven sustainable soilless growing media formulation for container plant production


Lead Applicant: Sheng Yang

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

An on-farm assessment of seedbed properties, seeding performance, and stand establishment in high-residue cropping systems


Lead Applicant: Joshua Nasielski

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Hexanal as a mobiliser to channel nutrients into fruits and mitigating bitterpit in apple


Lead Applicant: Jayasankar Subramanian

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Developing commercial scale agronomic practices and the value chain for sesame seed in Ontario


Lead Applicant: Rene Van Acker

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Simcoe

Progressing towards dairy calves resilient to heat stress: Effects of epigenetics, housing, and management


Lead Applicant: Trevor DeVries

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Cost effective carbon capture and re-use system for sustainable farming


Lead Applicant: Wael Ahmed

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Dietary supplementation of prebiotics and organic minerals to improve growth performance, gut health, immunity and genetics of rainbow trout subject to low, moderate and high temperatures


Lead Applicant: David Huyben

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: Ontario Aquaculture Research Centre