Welcome to Swine Innovation!

Canadian Swine Research and Development Cluster

A corporation committed to facilitate research, technology transfer and commercialization initiatives designed to enhance the profitability and differentiation of the Canadian pork value chain.

Our objectives

• Encourage the development and implementation of applied agricultural science plans, technology transfer and commercialization strategies.

• Address the challenges of technology, organization and knowledge management in the pursuit of increased Canadian competitiveness and differentiation.

• Facilitate the development new Agri-products, practices and processes that will increase Canadian competitiveness and differentiation.

• Organize calls for proposals for the implementation, delivery and management of national industry-led applied science plans, technology transfer and commercialization strategies.

• Coordinate the scientific and technical capacity of industry, government and academia

• Validate opportunities and strategies to support increased competitiveness and differentiation.

• Provide national leadership in the development of innovation initiatives. 

Activities carried out by Swine Innovation Pork are based on the four strategic pillars of the Pork Value Chain Roundtable:

Competitive Environment: We facilitate research designed to help reduce the costs of production; hence improving competitiveness.

Market Penetration: We foster research that assists the Canadian Pork Value Chain differentiate its products in its key markets.

Value Chain Integrity: We promote and encourage  research that assists the Canadian Pork Value Chain to demonstrably strengthen the integrity of the value chain.

Innovation: We put in place the organizational and scientific resources to permit innovation to flourish.

Our sphere of expertise

• Food safety and microbial quality;

• Animal welfare;

• Environmental changes;

• Equipment standardization;

• Feed inputs and feeding;

• Mycotoxins;

• Genomics.