Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News Archive

May 14, 2025 — 
On May 6, the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) hosted the Faculty Recognition Reception. The event honours recipients of teaching awards, community engagement awards, Merit Awards, and those granted Tenure.

May 12, 2025 — 
For decades, food insecurity has plagued Manitoba’s isolated northern communities. In these areas, high transportation costs make healthy food harder to find and more expensive for individuals and families.

May 8, 2025 — 
By understanding how crops take up nutrients from the soil, University of Manitoba’s agronomy soil fertility expert Xiaopeng Gao aims to help farmers produce bigger yields of better grains — and do it more sustainably

May 8, 2025 — 
Talking Bugs: What's Emerging This Season and How to Protect Them

May 7, 2025 — 
We examine an Idaho farmer’s program for crop self-defence

May 5, 2025 — 
We’re used to hearing about retirement as a finish line – a moment to step back, slow down, and fade quietly into leisure. But for a growing number of people, the prescribed retirement age isn’t a deadline, it’s a doorway.

May 5, 2025 — 
Manitoba tick season is here. How to protect yourself from the pesky pests

May 1, 2025 — 
Over 600 researchers, government representatives, farmers and industry members logged on to view the 10th Annual Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture Virtual Conference, co-hosted by the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE) at the University of Manitoba and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).

April 30, 2025 — 
Canadian businesses make trade transactions, but Grain Growers of Canada says government can be a facilitator

April 29, 2025 — 
Herbicide-resistant weeds are becoming a common problem for Prairie farmers, limiting their options for chemical weed management and increasing the importance of non-chemical management strategies.