plant science News Archive
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research and International
UM led research to advance agricultural innovation receives federal funding
March 13, 2024 —
UM researchers seek to address herbicide resistance in weeds that affect crop plant growth.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Cattle Country: Bringing it all together – Is there a place for cattle on Canada’s annual crop land?
March 1, 2024 —
Integrating livestock onto cropland where possible is often noted as one of the key practices for building soil health but this can be challenging to adopt within annual cash crop rotations that are common across the major grain growing regions within Canada.