The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Education Symposium

Nov. 7

10:00am

Blueprinting Longer Lasting Food

Louis Colaruotolo, PhD Candidate

Department of Food Science | University of Guelph

When building longer-lasting food, a blueprint is the best place to start.  Food structure can be designed to extend it's freshness, but what shapes, arrangements, and designs are best?  We can use 3-D printing to answer this question, helping us draw the blueprints of future food.  

Nov. 7

12:00pm

Unbeanlievably Good: The Future of Bakery Products

Nanveet Navneet, PhD Candidate

Department of Food Science | University of Guelph

With the increasing consume demand for high-protein and gluten-free products, the quest for functional wheat flour substitutes has gained more traction.  However, the gluten-free products currently available in the market are a cocktail of undesirable ingredients.  Learn about how research at the University of Guelph aims to make better bean-based ingredients to produce clean, gluten-free, and high protein bakery products.  

Nov. 8

10:00am

Cows and Climate Change: How Canada is Leading the Pack

Dr. Christine Baes

Department of Animal Biosciences | University of Guelph

Around the world, almost 14% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions (GGEs) come from one source: burping livestock.  Now the first national genetic evaluation in the world to help select low-methane dairy cows - an advance based on University of Guelph research - is expected to help reduce those farm GGEs without affecting animal house and welfare, or milk production.  Join us as we unpack and quantify just how much cows contribute to green house gas production, and ultimately, climate change.

Nov. 8

12:00pm

How are Bees Doing?  An Update from the Honey Bee Research Centre

Paul Kelly

Honey Bee Research Centre | University of Guelph

Join us as we learn about the health challenges honey bees face and how our work at the Honey Bee Research Centre addresses the issues through research and education.  

Nov. 9

10:00am

Who's Who?  Discover Ontario's Pollinators!

Emma Mossington

University of Guelph Student

Learn from Emma, University of Guelph student, about the different types of pollinators present in Ontario.  Emma will talk about how pollinators affect not only the agri-food system, but also wildlife, ecoystem resilience and the genetic diversity of plants.  We'll dive into the different types of pollinators present in Ontario as well as discuss the difference between native, naturalized, and invasive species in the context of pollinators.  We will also explore the many challenges pollinators face and how we can help to improve their health!

Nov. 9

12:00pm

How the Food System Responds to Demographic and Climate Change: Innovation, Technology Adoption, and Management

Andreas Boecker

Department of Food Agricultural Resource Economics | University of Guelph

Demographic change, as reflected in smaller households, a growing, culturally more diverse, and aging population, is the source of change in food demand.  Climate change with increasing temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, creates challenges and opportunities in agricultural and food production, thus affecting food supply.  Both have increasingly shaped the food system in the past 30 years and will likely do so even more in the future.  Research plays a central role for the food system to develop a strategic perspective in responding to these changes by innovating, adopting new technologies, and changing management practices.