Backgrounder
The following 13 projects have also received funding from federal-provincial innovation programming under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
British Columbia Agriculture Research & Development Corporation:
$75,000 to advance public trust in the B.C. agriculture industry and food system.
BC Cattlemen's Association:
$600,000 to expand a forage management tool to include additional sampling areas and a climate modelling component.
BC Dairy Association:
$22,000 in support of the BC Dairy Association's Dairy Farm Tour in January 2019.
EIO Diagnostics:
$100,000 to pilot and commercialize a new diagnostic device for early detection of mastitis in dairy cows.
Hallbar Consultants:
35,000 in support of hosting the 2019 Value of Biogas West Conference.
Lower Mainland Horticultural Industry Association:
$78,000 to help bring highly qualified speakers from around the world to present at the Lower Mainland Horticultural Industry Association's Horticultural Short Course in January 2019.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University:
$193,260 to help commercialize a new Trichoderma-based biopesticide product.
University of British Columbia (UBC):
$450,000 to expand recently developed technology that can selectively breed bees to include six new traits.
University of British Columbia:
$360,000 to develop a new type of anaerobic digester that will be paired with new manure treatment technology at the UBC Dairy Research and Education Centre in Agassiz.
University of British Columbia:
$300,000 for a project to develop bacteriophage that will help eliminate pathogens on fresh produce.
University of British Columbia:
$225,000 to develop bacteriophage to help eliminate salmonella in poultry barns and processing plants.
University of British Columbia:
$130,000 to adapt nitric oxide technology to reduce dairy calf morbidity and mortality.
University of British Columbia:
$113,000 for a project to control hoof disease in dairy cattle.
