{"id":173072,"date":"2023-08-16T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=173072"},"modified":"2023-08-16T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:25:28","slug":"ontario-funds-300k-for-dairy-farmer-training-at-guelph-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/ontario-funds-300k-for-dairy-farmer-training-at-guelph-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario funds $300K for dairy farmer training at Guelph campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is investing a sizable amount in dairy farming education across the province. The $300,000 investment, announced last week, will be running through University of Guelph\u2019s Ridgetown Campus\u2019 Dairy Herdsperson Apprenticeship (DHA) program.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be broadening to offer a hybrid, distance education model, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/1003360\/ontario-training-more-dairy-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a news release<\/a> from the province, and will\u00a0provide training in animal health, herd maintenance and more.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Ridgetown Campus Brett Sheperd says he was beyond excited by the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Sheperd didn't struggle to find fitting words to describe just how important dairy farmers are for the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n<p>\"Essential. Literally, figuratively - in every way. I believe it was the minister, at the announcement, who said they're every day heroes,\" Sheperd said.<\/p>\n<p>\"That stuck with me because I thought that is 100 per cent the truth,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sheperd says while securing the investment was thrilling, the work is only beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\"We feel deeply committed and dedicated to deliver because we know that this is a really, really important and needed initiative for farmers across the province,\" Sheperd stated.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are fully behind the province's work in investing in skilled jobs,\" he wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p>The skills development fund application was Ridgetown's first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CICW story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is investing a sizable amount in dairy farming education across the province. The $300,000 investment, announced last week, will be running through University of Guelph\u2019s Ridgetown Campus\u2019 Dairy Herdsperson Apprenticeship (DHA) program. The program will be broadening to offer a hybrid, distance education model, according to a news release from the province,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":173074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,222],"tags":[2021,29282,29286,438,5325,29284,2105,17540,29283,637,29285],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,25404,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173405,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072\/revisions\/173405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173072"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=173072"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=173072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}