The idea of the Alberta Bound Beef trip surfaced two years ago in the thick of the pandemic. A few members of the Ontario Agricultural College Beef Science Club were chatting about how Zoom calls and online classes aren’t substitutes for hands-on learning and being face-to-face. They joked about travelling to places they couldn’t go […] Read more

Alberta Bound: University of Guelph students tour the West
The student group’s event co-ordinator tells us how they organized a tour of Alberta ag businesses

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The Alberta Bound Beef trip took 45 University of Guelph undergraduate agriculture students to Alberta for six days of beef industry learning. On one of these informative days, our group was hosted by the Canadian Angus Association, with a morning filled with presentations, discussion circles and learning. Dr. Kajal Devani, who is the director of […] Read more