ARIO advises the Ontario government on agricultural research and innovation and its research spending, most of it at the University of Guelph. It owns 14 research centres.
Nevin McDougall recently has been a partner in RHA Ventures Inc. and president of A&L Laboratories. He has science and business degrees from the University of Guelph.
He was instrumental in the modernization of the ARIO Act.
All are in finishing barns.
There are four outbreaks of each of the two viruses.
Two are in Oxford, six in Waterloo.
There have been nine other outbreaks this month.
Emily McNulty, a third-year student in the University of Guelph Equine Management program, has won th 2024 Roger L'Heureux Memorial Equine Award.
McNulty will receive two online courses through Equine Guelph valued at $625 each. She will earn a certificate after completing six courses.
She said “I love to hear other perspectives on training techniques and management practices to be able to adjust my practices in the best interest of my horses.”
She is a member of the Guelph Western Equestrian team and has competed in western horsemanship with the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association for three years.
Bunge said its $47.8-billion deal to buy Viterra is close to being finalized after Canada approved the merger, reports Reuters News Agency.
Canada has imposed conditions including Bunge’s divestiture of six grain elevators in Western Canada and a binding commitment from Bunge to invest at least $520 million in Canada within the next five years, according to a statement from the transport ministry.
The approval also requires strict and legally binding controls on Bunge’s minority stake in Saudi-owned grain company G3 to ensure Bunge cannot influence G3’s pricing or investment decisions, the ministry said.
Bunge, Viterra and G3 account for a combined one-third of Western Canada’s elevator capacity.
Dumping is a technical trade term that basically means exporting at prices below the cost of production.
Industry groups from the three nations have written to their trade and agriculture ministers and officials expressing concern over the impact of “Canada’s trade delinquency” on dairy protein markets, the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand said Thursday.
“Of concern is the purposeful design of Canada’s milk pricing mechanisms to under-price the surplus milk protein generated by its domestic supply management system and incentivize disposal onto world markets,” the New Zealand association said in a statement.
“Collective and coordinated action is requested to address the mechanisms being used by Canada to enable these exports to be dumped on world markets.”
It seems to me they have a strong case.
The federal and Ontario agriculture departments said they have grant $7.18 million for 70 projects in the dairy industry, but have another more money in their kitty for applicants who handle cow, goat, sheep and water buffalo milk.
The money is to enhance and modernize dairy processing capacity and food safety.
It is a cost-sharing program that is expected to generate approximately $22 million in total capital investments.
Successful applicants can receive up to $200,000 in cost-shared funding to enhance processing efficiency and food safety in their facilities.
One of the projects already approved is for Ontario Water Buffalo Co. in Hastings County to increase production and improve food safety through the acquisition of a batch freezer, heat combination machine, and a pasteurizer. That grant was for up to $53,925.
Cedar Valley has been granted a $1 million loan from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario to add specialized equipment at its new 12,000-square-foot facility in Windsor.
It has 29 employees and plans to hire more to make pita chips.
"Really this will let us become the number one pita chip company in Canada and then a really big competitor in the United States because we are going up against a big conglomerate as a small family company so we do have a big challenge on our hands but we're very excited to see that growth," said Ameen Fadel, president and co-founder of Cedar Valley.
