13 ONTARIO GRAIN FARMER OCTOBER 2024 The opportunity to get back to teaching undergraduate and diploma students at the Ridgetown Campus was a big appeal to the role for Singh. Prograin® Discover the benefits at myprograinbenefits.ca GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO INVESTMENT Funding for Singh’s professorship is part of a $2 million gift from Grain Farmers of Ontario’s Legacy Fund. “Investing in the future of grain farming in Ontario through research is one of our key strategies,” says Jeff Harrison, chair of Grain Farmers of Ontario. “Grain Farmers of Ontario is proud to partner with the University of Guelph, and we welcome Dr. Singh to our community,” he continues. “Dr. Singh brings his extensive experience in a wide array of field crop research, and we look forward to working together.” Singh and his partner, Ravneet Kaur, a foreign-trained veterinarian who works for Swine Innovation Porc as manager of research development, will join the Ridgetown community in December 2024. Getting out to meet farmers and start sharing knowledge is high on his agenda once he arrives and gets settled. Helping farmers find practical applications of his research results is something he focuses on. He recognizes that distilling complicated research information to make practical recommendations is challenging. “Talking to farmers, with my applied research background, I’m very motivated to try to connect with farmers and share my research,” he says. “If they are nodding and smiling and if at the end [of a presentation] they are asking questions, then I think they understood most of the stuff I was talking about.”
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