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You can’t make this Sh** up!
Commentary by Mike McMorris, LRIC CEO, April 2021: Animal-free milk, eggs and meat are a reality. Consumer interest in these products is driven by their concerns for their own health, the environment and animal welfare. If the livestock sector wondered what three topics they need to deal with and tell their good story about, there you have it. Failure to do so could lead to a tipping point, beyond which society takes on the view that livestock equals bad.
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Coming events calendar
LRIC events
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April 21: Our third "Horizon Series" webinar tackles livestock, antimicrobials and resistance with Jean Szkotnicki, former President of the Canadian Animal Health Institute
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Industry events
May 10 - 14: Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada. The theme of this virtual conference is Feeding the Future: Precision Nutrition for Tomorrow’s Animal.
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LRIC in the news
Ontario Hog Farmer, April/May 2021: Thinking beyond the species
Farmtario, April 8, 2021: It's time for a Livestock Manifesto
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Poultry: Feed supplement can strengthen hen bones
A common feed supplement added to a poultry ration can strengthen layer bones. That's according to new research from the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, which found that betaine can boost bone quality in laying hens at risk of osteoporosis.
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Swine: CRISPR offers hope for African Swine Fever control
New vaccine trials are showing promise in the fight against African Swine Fever. Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute are using CRISPR Cas9 editing and synthetic biology in the development of potential vaccines. Trials currently underway hope to identify a viable vaccine candidate by the end of next year.
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Beef: Metabolic testing to boost beef repro?
A new study from Scotland's Rural College has found that metabolic profile testing in beef cattle could improve fertility and calving performance. Metabolic testing can identify nutritional issues in beef cows that could impact reproduction; it's a tool already used in the dairy industry to look at nutrition of pre-calving and early lactation cows.
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Dairy: Breeding for less methane
Methane emission is a heritable trait, meaning genetic selection for lower emitting animals is a possibility. Researchers at Denmark's Aarhus University have used a multi-trait approach in Holstein cattle to select animals that emit less methane.
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Small ruminants: Goats are problem-solving pros
Although sheep and goats have many things in common, researchers from Germany have found that goats are a step ahead when it comes to problem-solving. They adapt to changing environmental conditions more quickly, which lets them find and maximize new food sources more quickly.
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Carbon sequestration: Demonstrating the carbon-storing power of grasslands
A new pilot project is letting landowners and ranchers in Western Canada to generate carbon offsets for carbon stored on Canadian grasslands. The goal is to test and refine carbon offsetting protocols, identify eligibility requirements, value propositions and land conservation agreement models for landowners. Lower-cost, remote sensing tools will be tested to streamline monitoring and verification requirements.
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Climate change: Managing grasslands to reduce GHGs
Biologists at the University of Alberta say an innovative approach to livestock grazing - adaptive multi-paddock grazing - could help eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. This approach has livestock grazing in smaller areas for shorter amounts of time, encouraging the capture and storing of atmospheric greenhouse gases.
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Food security: Looking to space for answers on Earth
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency are turning to the public for innovations that will keep people alive during long future space flights to Mars and beyond. Organizers of the Deep Space Food Challenge are hopeful that innovations for space travel can help address food security issues across the human food chain on Earth too.
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Sustainability: The environmental upside of modern farming
Modern farming methods based on low-impact, precision farming methods use less land, less energy and fewer inputs than in the past. Most environmentalist would choose traditional farming practices as being better for the environment, but according to this Wall Street Journal article, the sustainability of traditional farming is mostly an illusion.
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