New Investments for One Health Solutions in Agriculture

Feb 18, 2025

RDAR, a major Canadian agriculture research funder, and Genome Alberta are pleased to announce the approval of approximately $3.3 million in funding for several important One Health projects. One Health recognizes the intrinsic link between the health of people, animals, and the environment. This approach is essential for anticipating, preventing, detecting, and controlling diseases that spread between plants, animals, and humans.

To read the Press Release and learn more about the funded projects, please visit: RDAR Delivers Multi-Million Dollar Investment to make One Health Solutions A Reality

In collaboration with RDAR, Genome Alberta facilitated the Accelerating Agriculture Innovation One Health Solutions competition to address the priority issues of Chronic Wasting Disease, Feral Pigs, African Swine Fever, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Livestock through a One Health approach. Supported research projects utilize genomic-enabled technologies, which offer collaborative, effective and cost-efficient approaches to provide solutions to One Health challenges and benefit Alberta producers.

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Video: A chain harrow is a game changer

Utilizing a rotational grazing method on our farmstead with our sheep helps to let the pasture/paddocks rest. We also just invested in a chain harrow to allow us to drag the paddocks our sheep just left to break up and spread their manure around, dethatch thicker grass areas, and to rough up bare dirt areas to all for a better seed to soil contact if we overseed that paddock. This was our first time really using the chain harrow besides initially testing it out. We are very impressed with the work it did and how and area that was majority dirt, could be roughed up before reseeding.

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