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A great story
CEO Commentary by Mike McMorris: There are many people telling the story of livestock these days. Their messages are short and simple and are gaining traction with the vast majority of people that have nothing to do with livestock. It matters what those people hear and begin to feel.
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News release: Symposium focuses on telling the good story of livestock
May 8, 2023: The balanced story of the livestock sector is a good one – and the importance of sharing that story outside of the industry is the theme of the Livestock Research Innovation Corporation (LRIC) annual symposium to be held June 1.
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Livestock meeting focuses on getting research from the lab to the farm
Ontario Farmer, May 2, 2023: Improving how the livestock sector can get research into practice brought approximately 60 people together for a daylong event hosted by Livestock Research Innovation Corporation (LRIC) in Elora.
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Data – simple answer but what’s the question?
Ontario Farmer, April 11, 2023: There is arguably more data being collected everywhere all the time than ever before in human history, including in the agri-food sector. How to best collect, manage, govern, and use that data are questions still in search of answers, however.
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Funding opportunities
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Sector-specific innovation highlights
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Poultry: Upcycling sidestreams into new food ingredients
A Danish food tech start-up is using two food industry side streams - spent laying hens and mushrooms rejected by supermarkets - to launch fermented organic flavour enhancers. In Denmark, hens that have ended their egg laying cycles are often discarded if they can't be used for animal feed or in biogas production and finding human food applications would both reduce waste and provide greater returns to farmers.
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Swine: Investigating pig manure as a food source for farmed insects
Leeds University and UK insect producer Entocycle will be conducting a trial this summer to evaluate the suitability of pig manure as a feedstock for black soldier fly and potentially other insect species. Researchers will evaluate the safety of manure as a feed source in insect production.
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Beef: Gene editing could reduce disease burden in cattle
In the United States, university and industry scientists have collaborated to produce the first gene-edited calf with resistance to bovine viral diarrhea virus, a virus that causes billions of dollars in losses in the U.S. cattle industry every year. Through this project researchers edited the gene that helps cause BVDV infection, and will now continue to closely study the calf's health and ability to produce and raise calves of her own.
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Dairy: Boosting milk yield while lowering reproductive diseases
A probiotic developed by the University of Alberta increases milk production in dairy cows while also preventing reproductive health issues and reducing the inflammation that causes lamenss. The product, which has been found to cut post-calvine uterine infections and milk fever rates in half and increase milk production by four to six litres per day during the first 50 days after calving, is already available in the United States and there are plans to bring it to Canada in the next two years.
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Cross-sector innovation highlights
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Cattle: Selecting for nitrogen use efficiency
In Australia, University of Queensland researchers have developed a simple test using tail hair samples to identify an animal's ability recycle nitrogen, a unique evolutionary trait that lets ruminants produce extra protein. Selecting animals with better nitrogen use efficiency could help improve performance in low protein diets. Cows with better nitrogen efficiency were found to have better body condition scores and improved fertility.
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Cellular agriculture: FAO, WHO debunk misconceptions
A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) has addressed misconceptions around cellular meat by addressing key food safety considerations. The four key misconceptions include risk of tumour formation and cancer, risk of adverse human health impacts, risk of genetic material from animal cells entering the human gut biome, and risk of mycoplasma infection.
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Gene editing: Using CRISPR to block methane emissions
University of California Davis scientist are working on new research that hopes to block methane emissions from cattle by editing gas-producingmicrobes in the bovine gut using CRISPR.
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Betting on insects, upcycling and food waste reduction
In 2022, agtech venture capital investors turned their focus to tackling the global food waste problem. Reversing food waste could produce enough to feed two billion people as well as mitigate climate change impacts. Last year, investment in North America for food waste solutions is estimated at $2 billion USD, with innovations that address food waste prevention through better inventory management software, upcycling and insect production.
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Have researchers mastered effective soil carbon calculation?
A new system developed at Wageningen Universty and Research in the Netherlands represents a new way to measuring carbon in the soil and could enable "carbon farming". The model, which has been tested on farms in Iowa and Arkansas, uses satellite data, soil measurements taken with a portable spectrometer and machine learning techniques to precisely calculate the amount of carbon in the soil. This type of metric is needed to develop carbon sequestration offsetting programs for agriculture.
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