Wednesday, September 25, 2024

ARIO gets $1.28 million for breeding programs

The Ontario government is giving $1.28 million to the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario to support eight breeding programs.

It cited three examples:


• Determining if methane emissions can be reduced in beef cattle through improving feed and modifying gene characteristics.


• Developing drought resistant, higher yield soybean varieties and better-quality crops for Ontario farmers to grow and for export.


• Developing bean varieties that are disease resistant and environmentally resilient.


There must be an election looming because ARIO hardly ever issues these kinds of news releases.