Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News Archive

September 8, 2025 — 
The University of Manitoba is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nazim Cicek as the next Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, effective January 1, 2026.

September 3, 2025 — 
Manitoba trials test whether farmers can apply less nitrogen to dry beans without losing yield, despite their typically poor nitrogen-fixing capacity.

September 2, 2025 — 
Using simulations to study landscape resilience

August 27, 2025 — 
Verticillium stripe may compromise blackleg resistance protection in canola, new research out of Manitoba suggests

August 27, 2025 — 
The University of Manitoba put the spotlight on its in-progress crop research, including the concept of a nurse crop against flea beetles, corn weed control and high-protein canola fertilizer

August 19, 2025 — 
University of Manitoba doctoral student, Shruti Kashyap, is studying early-season moisture as it relates to verticillium disease severity. That led to the discovery that plants with thick suberin-rich roots had lower disease. Kashyap worked with her advisors, Claudio Stasolla and Harmeet Chawla, Plant Science professors in the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences.

August 18, 2025 — 
Ranjan Sri Ranjan, a University of Manitoba professor, said he planted soybeans in research plots this year but didn't get enough water for them to germinate.

August 15, 2025 — 
For over 30 years, Dr. Martin Entz has been at the forefront of sustainable farming research.  

August 15, 2025 — 
Seed companies are starting to tout canola with some verticillium stripe tolerance; meanwhile, researchers have a line on a genetic trait that might physically block infection

August 14, 2025 — 
Nutrition experts get to the meat of latest grocery store trend