Ridgetown Campus

For #ONTAgWeek, we’re spotlighting @RidgetownCampus alumna Cara McCreary. As a Greenhouse Vegetable IPM Specialist with OMAFA, she has advanced pest management, led during the pepper weevil outbreak, and continues to protect Ontario’s crops. Read more: uoguel.ph/0yf0g

OAC receives $1.5M from Charlotte Products Ltd. to create a new chair in soil health. Dr. Laura Van Eerd, the inaugural chair, will advance research on soil health, carbon sequestration, and sustainable farming. 🔗 Learn more: uoguel.ph/43x4a

Dr. Isabelle Aicklen joins OAC as the new Ontario Bean Growers Professor in Weed Management. Her research at Ridgetown will help Ontario’s bean growers tackle weed challenges while training the next generation of ag professionals. 🔗Learn more: uoguel.ph/82y28

Ridgetown campus and classes will open today at 10:00am. Clinton- REACH campus and classes are running as usual. Please use caution and travel safely to campus.

This gift from the Ontario Bean Growers (OBG) ensures U of G continues to be among the world’s best in dry bean agronomy and weed management research. Learn more: uoguel.ph/pggqj #UofG #UofGuelphOAC

John Cranfield (Dean of @UofGuelphOAC), Brett Shepherd, @RidgetownCampus, @drbeans1, Jamie Payton, and Ryan Koeslag, announced OBG’s $660,000 contribution to $2million Assistant Weed Management Professorship at @uofg.

Save the date! @RidgetownCampus is excited that @ontariocolleges will be opening to accept applications on October 1 for all academic programs at Ridgetown. Sign up now on our website for a fall campus tour and watch for more future student events coming soon!

We're giving hardworking young people like McKenna Morrison the chance to do what they love. Through our Skills Development Fund, we're investing $300K to @OntarioDairy @DairyApprentice , to help grow the agricultural trades that feed our families.

As the need for animal care and wellness grows, the importance of veterinary technicians grows too. Today, #UofG @RidgetownCampus welcomed @JillDunlop1 to meet with vet tech students and to learn about training the veterinary team and the delivery of care. @ONtrainandstudy

Today, @TrevorJonesCKL and I announced that we're working with @OntarioDairy & @DairyApprentice investing over $300K through our Skills Development Fund, to help jobseekers get the skills they need to provide quality food to the people of Ontario for generations to come.

Dairy farmers feed our families.  That's why we're investing $300,000 to help young people prepare for meaningful and well-paying careers in the dairy industry. 🐄🐄

#UofG | With support from the @ONgov a new hybrid, distance education option @RidgetownCampus will train students across Ontario for jobs in the dairy industry. Read more: stratfordbeaconherald.com/news/local-new…

Farmers feed families.🐄 👩‍🌾 That's why, through our Skills Development Fund, we're investing over $300,000 to expand @OntarioDairy Dairy Herdsperson Apprenticeship program to ensure workers and jobseekers can get the training they need to find meaningful careers close to home.

#UofG @RidgetownCampus & @OntarioDairy have partnered to expand practical, skills-based training & address the labour shortage in Ontario's dairy sector. Thank you @MonteMcNaughton for your announcement today, we look forward to advancing the future of dairy education.

An excellent opportunity to join the @uofg @RidgetownCampus with the @GrainFarmers professorship in field crop pathology, an area very important to Ontario farmers! uoguelph.ca/facultyjobs/po…

University of Guelph @RidgetownCampus improves the world around us with programs relating to plants, animals and the environment. Thank you for your partnership in the #FarmToFork #WindsorEssex Career Fair coming up next week. Learn more & register: bit.ly/3Ik0uNq

A special thank you to the students who shared their experiences with a packed house and beautiful dinner @RidgetownCampus Chaplaincy Program Annual Gala #ImproveLife

It's decision time for many high school students. Nice the see the @RidgetownCampus @uofg brochure getting big profile in my daughter's career counselling centre. Great opportunities in agriculture #cdnag #ontag