Ontario Pork Call for Proposal 2026

Ontario Pork is pleased to announce a call for Letters of Intent (LOI) for research projects that focus on the Ontario swine industry and meet the overarching research objectives of:

• Testing potential improvements to swine industry practices
• Innovation of manure pit cleaning/disinfection methods and infected manure management to mitigate African swine fever*
• Comparison analysis of disinfection efficacy and safety of lime vs. accelerated hydrogen peroxide (Prevail®) in loading chutes under commercial conditions *
• Identifying tools for humane euthanasia of pigs weighing 8-20kg
• Analyzing the economic impacts of increased dedication of livestock trailers to U.S. loads only for increased biosecurity

There is no maximum value for the total project request to Ontario Pork. Consideration should be given to the total amount available in the research fund, which is approximately $500,000 per year, with an average request of $60,000 per project. In addition, it should be noted that for single or multi-year projects, the total request is deducted from the annual research budget of the year the applicant was granted funding. The average project length is 2 years.