Poultry farmers can hear about nanotechnology, food policy and egg production and the latest research at the upcoming research day in Shakespeare.
Poultry Industry Canada is hosting the research day on May 10 at the Shakespeare & District Optimist Hall.
"Innovative technology will be discussed, which is Google Glasses for virtual reality auditing in barns," said Casey Riddle, Education and Extension Programs Manager for PIC. "The whole idea of the technology is to allow auditors to actually see the barn when the farmer puts on the glasses. They're (the farmer) able to walk through the facilities themselves, the auditor can tell them to turn and look to see how many birds are in a cage. And this technology allows auditors to do several different barns in one day."
Poultry Industry Canada's Research Day on May 10 starts at 9:30am and wraps up at 3:30pm in Shakespeare.
The full agenda can be viewed below.
Research Day May 10, 2017 Agenda
Shakespeare Ontario
Time Topics Speakers list 9:30 Registration-coffee 10:00 Welcome Keith and Al Dam OMAFRA 10:00 Can our knowledge of the complete poultry genome assist in crafting disease resistance Dr. Shayan Sharif (DVM, PhD) Professor Director, Emergency Management Research Program Department of Pathobiology Ontario Veterinary College University of Guelph (confirmed)10:20 Nanotechnology – the future in poultry production, from health to feed monitoring what can this technology provide to our sector Dr. Suresh Neethirajan, PhD. , P.Eng
University of Guelph (confirmed)
10:40 Validation through Virtual Reality – What the future looks like for on farm audits Eva NSF Agriculture 11:00 Food policy and Egg Production--How supply managed commodities allow the Canadian sector to invest in progressive programs
Dr Bruce MuirheadResearch Chair in Public PolicyBruce Muirhead, Ph.D
Associate Vice President, External Research and Professor of History
Egg Farmers of Canada Chair in Public Policy
University of Waterloo
11:40 New facilities for poultry research- what will happen to the Arkell facility? Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Stewart Cressman Chair 12:00 Lunch 1:00 What does research capacity look like across Canada Dr. Bruce Roberts, CPRC 1:20 Arkell Poultry Research – What goes on there? Dave Vandenberg, Farm Manager Arkell Research Farm 1:40 Guelph’s investment in the future – update on the recent investment at the University including the Isolation unit and commitment to the $77 million “ Food for Thought” program and the $23 million to the OVC for facilities Dr. Malcolm Campbell VP Research - invited 2:20 Societal acceptance of nanotechnology Crystal Mackay, Farm and Food Care Canada 2:50 Barn retrofit for Modular loading Dan Ward OMAFRA (confirmed) 3:20 Closing comments- what is our take home messages from today! 3:30 Adjourn