Federal agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay announced Feb. 4 that Ottawa is investing an additional $1.75 million in Canada’s dairy research cluster.
The investment is aimed at boosting milk production and improving the industry’s knowledge about the health effects of dairy fat.
The research is also expected to enable Dairy Farmers of Canada to take better advantage of Agriculture Canada research.
The dairy research cluster was launched in 2013 and brings together scientific expertise in sustainable milk production, dairy genetics and genomics, and the nutrition of milk products.
Theinvestment will support research in two specific areas:
- enhancing the energy of forage crops to maximize milk production
- studying the impact of dairy fat products such as cheese on cardio-vascular health in humans
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