Sponsor
Beef Farmers of Ontario
Program
Description
- Animal health and welfare
- Antimicrobial use, resistance and alternatives
- Food safety
- Forages
- Environmental sustainability
- Other:
- Producing dairy-beef cross calves that meet market needs
- Abattoir condemnation rates in the province
- Feed efficiency
- Beef quality
- Technologies that accurately measure carcass traits of interest
- 360-degree analysis of plant-based versus livestock-based protein
- Does the proposed project address a current problem or opportunity facing the Ontario beef industry?
- Is the work likely to leverage additional dollars from other sources?
- Is there an opportunity to bring other livestock sectors into the project? Cross-organizational, cross-institutional, and cross-sector collaboration is encouraged.
- Does the proposal include a strong communications plan and, where possible, an economic analysis?
Indirect Costs
25%
Special Notes
Please note that research activities carried out in the context of COVID-19 need to adhere to the University of Guelph COVID-19 research principles, policies, guidelines and processes as they may be updated from time to time and communicated on the Office of Research web-page [5].
Deadlines
If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.
Type | Date | Notes |
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Internal Deadline | Please submit a PDF copy of your LOI, along with an OR-5 Form to research.services@uoguelph.ca [6]. | |
External Deadline | Letters of intent need to be completed electronically through the Livestock Research and Innovation Corporation’s (LRIC) [7] website. Letters of Intent must be received on or before Monday, October 17th, 2022, at 4:30 pm. | |
Internal Deadline | Please submit a PDF copy of your application to research.services@uoguelph.ca [6]. | |
External Deadline | Those invited to full proposal must submit their application through the LRIC system. |