Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News Archive

August 22, 2024 — 
Producers needed for grain bin insect study

August 21, 2024 — 
With these land prices, can young farmers hope to ever write a sensible business plan? Maybe, but it’ll take innovative thinking

August 21, 2024 — 
Can we grow veggies designed to combat diabetes? Manitoba researchers hope so

August 19, 2024 — 
The main hallways at the University of Manitoba are mostly empty and the campus quiet during the summer, but it’s as busy and buzzing as ever inside the soil science department’s laboratories.

August 15, 2024 — 
The sector needs employees in areas of digital agriculture, mechatronics and clean energy technologies, as well as veterinary professionals.

August 14, 2024 — 
The four-year project, which started in 2023, covers all Prairie provinces.

August 9, 2024 — 
Cover crops can provide benefits, but incorporating them into other cropping systems, especially when growing herbicide-tolerant crops including canola, can be a challenge.

August 9, 2024 — 
Researchers from the University of Manitoba want to know about bug problems in stored grain.

August 6, 2024 — 
Kelsey Wog, a former University of Manitoba Bisons swimmer posted a time of 2:24.82 in her semi-final race at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She told the Winnipeg Free Press, would retire and continue to pursue her Master's Degree but did also want to give back to the sport in some way.

August 6, 2024 — 
David Lobb, a U of M soil scientist, has conducted field trials on moving topsoil to the tops of knolls at multiple sites in the northern Plains. The results were dramatic.