More than $1.5 Million for 17 Innovative Projects

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May 15, 2015 - Victoria, British Columbia - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture

AgWest Veterinary Group Ltd:: $15,650 to demonstrate the Aqua Cow Rise System equipment and help downer cows regain the ability to stand. The project will take place on commercial farms in the Fraser Valley.
Applied Bio-nomics Ltd:: $204,375 to research whether a storage mite is an alternative host prey for Amblyseius fallacis, a spider mite predator. If successful, a higher number of lower-cost bio-control tools will be available to berry growers.
BC Agricultural Research & Development Corp:: $115,500 to assess the technical and economic feasibility of building a gasification plant to convert used horse bedding and poultry litter into renewable energy and ash.
BC Broiler Hatching Egg Commission:: $30,000 to launch a hatch monitoring program that will improve the current process. The system will provide detailed egg and hatch information in real-time from all hatcheries. This will improve supply and viability of hatching eggs and enhance production management.
BC Chicken Marketing Board:: $39,750 to develop a web-based grower dashboard system. The new online system will streamline required data and improve efficiency for producers.
BC Greenhouse Growers Association:: $14,740 for two projects that will demonstrate the safety and efficacy of using Polyoxin D for integrated disease management in greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers.
Cawston Cold Storage:: $140,160 to test the potential of using earwigs as biological control for several apple orchard insect pests including the rosy apple aphid, leafrollers, budmoth and apple clearwing moth.
Kalala Organic Vineyards Ltd:: $4,300 to study the effectiveness of using Humic acid as foliar nutrition in a commercial organic vineyard.
Net Zero Waste Abbotsford Inc:: $42,315 for a project to capture waste heat from composting to heat greenhouses.
NovoBind Livestock Technologies Inc:: $415,000 to develop a bio-control mechanism for Salmonella that can be safely administered as a feed supplement.
Pemberton Distillery Inc:: $14,775 to test a small scale micro-malting facility that will produce local specialty and custom malted grains for the craft brewing and distilling industries in British Columbia
Red Dog Deli Raw Food Company Inc:: $9,500 to develop a specialized bone grinder for raw ungulate bone crushing. The processing will provide a dry bone powder that is in demand in the pet food and supplement market.
SFE Laboratories Inc:: $248,520 to design a multiplex diagnostic kit for the simultaneous detection of four major pathogenic bacteria relevant to different food products.
The Farm House Natural Cheeses:: $10,000 to finalize and implement the packaging design and labeling for a new cheese product.
University of British Columbia:: $10,000 to study the effects of the pre-pubertal growth rate on puberty and estrus behaviour of Holstein heifers.
University of Fraser Valley:: $221,520 to test several innovative greenhouse enhancement prototypes designed to increase yield potential and urban application while reducing capital and cultivation costs of traditional greenhouses.

Contacts

Dave Townsend
Government Communications and Public Engagement
B.C. Ministry of Agriculture
1-250-356-7098
1-250-889-5945 (cellular)

Jeff English
Director of Communications
The Office of the Honourable Gerry Ritz
1-613-773-1059

Media Relations
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
1-613-773-7972
1-866-345-7972

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