By collaborating with industry and producers, this project is assessing and exploring tools such as VESS, CSHT, scorecards, the SASH Framework and soil quality test kits to expand soil health indicators for agricultural and environmental sustainability.
Located within the High Plains Industrial Park (HPIP) near Balzac, Alta., the Shuttleworth Conservation Park (SCP) serves as a large-scale living laboratory for applied stormwater research, developed in collaboration with Highfield Investment Group.
The two-year project started in 2025 with CBS Bio Platforms in Calgary, AB to evaluate Optimax-E on backgrounding beef cattle. Optimax-E is an exogenous fibrolytic enzyme (EFE) product, containing a wide range of enzymes for carbohydrate degradation.
Olds College Centre for Innovation (OCCI) has partnered with the Agroforestry and Woodlot Extension Society of Alberta (AWES) to implement a shelterbelt project at the Pitstra Farm, part of the Olds College Smart Farm located west of Carstairs, Alta.
The Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production is identifying and quantifying a panel of predictive blood biomarkers of feed efficiency and parasite infections of sheep.
This project evaluates the economic and environmental benefits of using native wetland plants and floating island technology to treat feedlot runoff water. This effectively improves water quality for irrigation or livestock use by removing excess nutrients, heavy metals and other contaminants.
The Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production (TACLP) has been validating rapid on-farm forage nitrate tests to assist cattle producers in managing feed quality.
The TACLP at Olds College is enhancing climate change resiliency and environmental sustainability of the livestock industry through the use of innovative technology and rotational grazing practices on the Smart Farm.
The Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production (TACLP) team at Olds College is evaluating the effectiveness of virtual fence collars for cattle.
Using artificial intelligence for individual animal identification and monitoring is a novel concept that Olds College is exploring with an industrial client.
This project evaluates sire-progeny links, breeding plans and information management/record keeping in multi-sire breeding scenarios on commercial herds.
Researchers at the TACLP are studying and comparing differences in weight gain, health and reactivity at handling in imprinted against non-imprinted calves weaned through the use of either nose-flap, fenceline or traditional abrupt weaning.
The TACLP at Olds College is partnering with the University of Manitoba to identify the potential for intercropping corn with high protein forages.
The TACLP has embarked on a series of regenerative agriculture strategies at Pitstra Farm to modify the land, increase biodiversity of flora/fauna, increase yield and stocking rates, and improve the ecosystem function.