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A canola stalk with pod shatter

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Western Producer: VIDEO – Study seeks more information on pod shatter resistance

September 25, 2024 — 
University of Manitoba researchers test canola cultivars to identify genetic material that has tolerance to pod shatter.

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Canola plants.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Grain News: How to keep last year’s canola out of your beans

September 17, 2024 — 
How to keep last year’s canola out of your beans

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Dr. Harmeet Chawla

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Baking Business: Research reveals how bread helped transform the ancient world

September 11, 2024 — 
Research reveals how bread helped transform the ancient world

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A researcher examines cover crop

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Cattle Country: New research will enable greater use of cover crops on the Prairies, including grazing

September 1, 2024 — 
Cover crops are important elements in regenerative agriculture, and therefore play an important role in achieving sustainable food production systems.

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People gather around a speaker on the edge of a tilled field

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Grainews: VIDEO: Bringing new pod-shatter resistant canola to market

August 27, 2024 — 
Pod-shatter tolerance in canola is a valuable trait to have if you want as much of your harvest as possible to reach the bin

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Professor Louis M. Lenz

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Remembering Professor Louis Lenz

August 26, 2024 — 
Professor Louis M. Lenz passed away on August 13, 2024, at the age of 91.

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Chawla Research Lab

Research and International

New study explains how bread transformed the ancient world with help from UM researcher

August 23, 2024 — 
A major study co-authored by UM Plant Science researcher Dr. Harmeet Chawla in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences is revealing the evolution and origin of bread.

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A cover crop grows between the rows of a field crop.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Western Producer: Cover crops pose challenge for Prairie farmers

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.

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Soybean plants in a sunny field

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Manitoba Co-operator: Keep last year’s canola out of your soybeans

July 31, 2024 — 
Research from the University of Manitoba aims to get a better handle on the problem of volunteer canola in soybeans.

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Signatories of Memorandum of Understanding pose together for a photo at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University of Fez.

Research and International

UM grows partnerships for sustainable agriculture in Africa

July 8, 2024 — 
UM has signed four new partnership agreements with institutions across the North African nation of Morocco.

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