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Staying on top of emerging issues: perspectives from the value chain
Ontario Beef, December 2025: Staying on top of emerging trends is essential for ensuring the long-term success and competitiveness of Ontario’s livestock sector. That’s where LRIC’s Emerging Trends and Opportunities Committee (ETOC) brings together thinking leaders from across the value chain — from farms and research labs to processors and retailers.
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Bridging the gap between research and farming
Ontario Beef, October 2025: This fall marks the start of the fifth cohort of a unique mentorship program for early career scientists at the University of Guelph to introduce them to Ontario’s livestock industry.
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Better partnerships can help solve animal agriculture’s big issues
Ontario Beef, May 2024: It’s been just under a year since Dr. Christine Baes became the new Chair of the University of Guelph’s Department of Animal Biosciences – and she’s focused on charting a new path that will help the department and the livestock industry be future-ready.
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Research & innovation key to successful future for Canadian livestock industry, report says
Ontario Beef, February 2024: A new report puts research, innovation and a comprehensive policy approach as core pillars underpinning the successful future of Canada’s livestock industry. Report co-author Al Mussell will be speaking about the report’s findings at the BFO annual meeting on February 22.
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Looking past the headlines at livestock, climate and sustainability
Ontario Beef, December 2023: There’s a growing narrative that eliminating animal agriculture is the key solution to the world’s climate change problem – much to the frustration of the livestock industry that this ignores the critical role that farm animals play in global food protein security, regenerative agriculture, and carbon sequestration.
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Plant-based burgers not healthier than beef, new research shows
Ontario Beef: February 2023: A plant-based burger might look like beef and taste like beef - but that doesn’t make it beef. According to new research from the University of Guelph, that’s an important distinction that has a dramatic impact on everything from how we digest plant-based protein alternatives to the type of bacteria growing in the human gut.
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Future of global food security depends on livestock
Ontario Beef, October 2022: Given the many pressures facing the livestock industry today, it can sometimes be easy to wonder whether the future of food production in the world will include animals. Absolutely, says Dr. Vaughn Holder, Research Project Manager in Beef Nutrition at Alltech.
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A path forward for Ontario’s livestock innovation system
Ontario Beef, August 2022: According to Livestock Research Innovation Corporation (LRIC) CEO Mike McMorris, Ontario has a very good livestock innovation system, but as with anything, there is always room for improvement and ways of doing things better.
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Reporting on what matters – the need for balance in the livestock sector
Ontario Beef, May 2022: A statement many people in the agriculture sector have heard a lot in recent years is “you have to tell your story, or someone will tell it for you.” When it comes to climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and the environment, the livestock story is definitely being told – but much as they might try, it’s not by the industry itself.
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