For the third year in a row, the Macdonald Campus Dairy Unit has been awarded the title of Regional Club of Excellence听Milk Quality Champion by dairy industry giant Agropur.
Accepting the award at a regional meeting on November 25, Natasha Lapointe, Animal Science Coordinator of the Dairy听Unit, credited her team鈥檚 commitment to maintaining high standards.
Tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity a key priority for 平特五不中 and Quebec
The Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec its latest rounds of funding earlier this month in support of research, training, and initiatives to tackle major societal challenges鈥攊ncluding climate change and biodiversity loss.
In this new policy brief by Brenden McKinney, we learn that the effects of climate change are causing risk management to become an increasingly essential tool to help farmers anticipate and react to weather- related shocks like droughts and floods.
Phragmite, panais sauvage, herbe 脿 poux, nerprun, renou茅 du Japon听: ce sont toutes des plantes envahissantes, nuisibles 脿 un certain degr茅, qui prennent de plus en plus de place sur les terres agricoles et parfois m锚me dans nos for锚ts. Plusieurs sont inconnues de la population g茅n茅rale, mais causent de s茅rieux maux de t锚te aux agriculteurs.
Parmi celles-ci, la plus probl茅matique semble 锚tre le phragmite, aussi appel茅 芦鈥塺oseau commun鈥壜. On le qualifie parfois de 芦鈥塿茅ritable menace 脿 la biodiversit茅 des lieux humides鈥壜.
The glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been found to trigger the loss of biodiversity among phytoplankton communities in freshwater ponds. In their experiments, scientists found that while some populations developed resistance to the herbicide and were able to survive exposure at high levels, this came at a cost, with a 40 percent loss in biodiversity.
"The ubiquitous presence of glyphosate in the environment has sparked concerns over its potential health and ecotoxicological effects," Andrew Gonzalez, from Canada's 平特五不中, said.听
Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.
Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world鈥檚 poorest people are at risk.
The results, published Thursday in the journal Science, raise troubling questions about who will be able to adapt in a shifting, less dependable world.
鈥淭here鈥檚 a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it,鈥 said Elena Bennett [NRS], who studies ecological systems at 平特五不中 and is one of the paper鈥檚 21 co-authors.
GODAN NEWS RELEASE
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), the UN, UK and US government supported initiative driving global efforts to tackle food security and to end world hunger by propagating open data polices in agriculture and nutrition across the world, announces the relocation of its headquarters from Oxford, in the United Kingdom to 平特五不中 in Montr茅al, Canada effective of 24 of September 2019.
Dalhousie University, Lethbridge College and 平特五不中 are collaborating with Farm Credit Canada on a 2 year pilot project to bring Canadian post-secondary agriculture students together to create innovative solutions to Canadian agricultural challenges. Fifteen students will bring their diverse Canadian perspectives together in cross-institutional teams responding to a specific regional agricultural issue. The challenge tasks will take teams through a creative problem solving matrix as they meet with local producers to discover the full amplitude of the challenge question.
Chaque ann茅e, 脿 la rentr茅e scolaire, David Wees propose un petit d茅fi 脿 ses 茅tudiants inscrits au cours d鈥檃griculture urbaine de l鈥橴niversit茅 平特五不中 : calculer dans quelle mesure les terres agricoles de l鈥櫭甽e de Montr茅al peuvent nourrir ses habitants. 芦 En se basant sur une superficie de 2 000 hectares et sur un rendement moyen de 26 tonnes/hectare [de l茅gumes cultiv茅s au jardin], on obtient un r茅sultat assez impressionnant : ces terres pourraient combler environ 15 % des besoins en l茅gumes des Montr茅alais 禄, explique l鈥檃gronome.
Martine Bourgeois [BSc(Agr)'82] gagne pour une deuxi猫me ann茅e cons茅cutive le prix de l鈥橝gricultrice de l鈥檃nn茅e de la Mont茅r茅gie-Est. 鈥 芦 Quand je faisais mes 茅tudes [au baccalaur茅at en agriculture 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 平特五不中], il y avait peu d鈥檃cc猫s pour les filles. J鈥檃i 茅t茅 chanceuse d鈥檃voir eu un emploi, mais il a vraiment fallu que je fasse ma place. J鈥檃i os茅 faire des changements et sortir de ma zone de confort, ce que je ne regrette pas.
The average Canadian might hold a romanticized view of agriculture in this country, but for a group of nearly 100 industry, academic, government folks, big data is key to the sector鈥檚 future.
The $250 million Smart Agri-Food Super Cluster (SASC) is one of nine industry-led projects, and one of two that focuses on agriculture, to be shortlisted for up to $950 million in federal innovation funding earmarked in last year鈥檚 budget.
En cette fin d'ann茅e, nous vous proposons une r茅flexion sur l'agriculture avec une femme qui a consacr茅 sa vie aux enjeux agricoles. Anja Geitmann est doyenne de la facult茅 des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'environnement 脿 l'Universit茅 平特五不中.
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