Issue # 5 (Oct 2016)
Partners in the News
OMAFRA’s investments in research and innovation make an impact.
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High Immunity Herds – the Green option
The University of Guelph’s ‘Food From Thought’ funds university rethink of what we eat
Breeding vegetables for Canadian production and global markets
Research aims to make fish farming more energy efficient
Guelph scientist fighting global anemia with cast-iron fish
Canadian mobile device offers instant dairy cow health check
Vineland partner conducting Canadian okra trials
Funding Opportunities
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- 2017 Grains Innovation Fund Open for Proposals (Apply by Oct 24)
- OMAFRA – U of G Research Program call for Letters of Intent (Apply by Nov 1)
- Ontario Genomics 2016 SPARK Program Microbiome Competition (Apply by Nov 1)
- Growing forward 2 Program Intake (Apply by Nov 3)
- 2017 Grain Farmers of Ontario Call for Research Proposals (Apply by Nov 30)
Events
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- Oct 5 – 6: Canadian Greenhouse Conference
- Oct 17-18: Grocery Innovations Canada Conference
- Nov 4-13: The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
- Nov 22-23: Eastern Ontario Local Food Conference
New Directions Research Program
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- Changing agricultural landscapes and groundwater quality in sensitive aquifers
- Agronomic evaluation of plants that produce vernolic acid, an important industrial epoxidized ester
- Value-added Contributions of Immigrant Entrepreneurs to Rural Ontario’s Economic Development
- An Ecosystem Approach to Understanding and Informing Rural Policy for Social Enterprise Development
- Monitoring and Predicting Variable Source Areas in Small Agricultural Watersheds
- Using the power of functional metagenomics resources to construct bacterial strains for the production of bioplastics in Ontario oil biorefineries
- Working with new immigrants for rural areas: Policy and program implications for rural areas
- Mobile Food Processing Facilities: Opportunities in the Rural Food Processing Sector
- Evaluating the Business Model for an Integrated Regional Food System by Leveraging Foodservice Companies’ Purchasing Power
- Analysis of annual runoff and phosphorus losses from minimum till sites across Ontario
Food Safety Research Program
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OMAFRA – U of G Partnership Research Program
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- Probiotics for enhanced poultry health
- Substituting Carbon Black through Agro-derived Bio-Black for Green Automotive Products
- Reducing dietary protein costs while maximizing milk production in dairy cows
- Land Use Planning and Agriculture: Measuring Farmland Availability
- Optimizing Lighting for Precision Broiler Breeder Feeding
- Best Practices in the Use of Nature/Natural Systems to Create New Economic Activity and Rural Community Resilience
- Freshness indicator for intelligent packaging applications
- Microbiological Risks and Mitigation Strategies in the Application of Recycled Sand Bedding used in Dairy Operations
- Biodegradable and Biobased Engineering Materials through New Green Chemistry for Agricultural Film and Sustainable Materials Uses
- A Farmer Panel: A value-to-rent measure for Ontario farmland
- Optimizing a cryodrying technology to develop golden prunes with enhanced health attributes from novel Yellow European Plums (YEPs)
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