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Following an avian influenza outbreak, not all compensation schemes are created equal, and lack of compensation is a problem that extends far beyond geographical borders.
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Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture has announced the winners of the 2016 competition, which took place Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.
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All eggs, pork and veal produced and sold in Massachusetts will be required to come from humanely caged animals by 2022.
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In 2007, when Dr. Michael Ngadi at McGill University developed a way of predicting chicken egg hatchability using hyperspectral imaging with 95 per cent accuracy, no one noticed. Three years later an article appeared in a magazine asking, what happened to that research? No one answered. But in 2012, public concerns with chick maceration changed the question: could this technology determine the gender of the chick? No one had thought to ask until then, but Egg Farmers of Ontario decided to invest $50K to find out.
“It’s a testimony to funding early research,” says Tim Nelson, CEO of the Livestock Research Innovation Corporation (LRIC), a Guelph-based organization that acts as a catalyst to enable cross-disciplinary and cross-sectorial research.
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