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2025-01-20
5:00 min
The next phase of a University of Saskatchewan (USask) research initiative aims to sequence the entire genome of beef cattle for the selection of optimum physical and behavioural traits and create a Canadian genetic database — two ambitious goals that will have a significant impact on the country’s beef cattle industry. The new facility will allow USask to offer a new high-throughput genome sequencing service for western Canadian beef cattle producers and researchers. “Picture being able to...
2024-10-29
03:00 min
Ontario farmers raise more than half of Canada’s goats. Alliance-funded research is identifying animals with stronger immune responses to common parasites to help Ontario producers breed for healthier and more productive herds. Keeping Ontario goats healthy is the main goal of an ongoing gut worm study by University of Guelph researchers. The team hopes to help producers and veterinarians better combat infection by gastrointestinal nematodes (GINs), which affect nearly all Ontario goat farms,...
2024-09-26
02:30 min
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) leader in beef cattle health and welfare has been awarded the 2024 Canadian Beef Industry Award for Outstanding Research and Innovation. Dr. Cheryl Waldner, a professor and researcher at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM), was honoured at the 2024 Canadian Beef Industry Conference in August 2024. “Waldner’s work has no doubt improved the competitiveness and sustainability of the Canadian beef industry,” said Craig Lehr, chair of the Beef...
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2022-09-27
03:20 min
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