�鶹ɫ��Ƭ News - Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Bridging worlds as the ice recedes

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:55:31 +0000

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears

Published: 17 July 2025

The first fully automated greenhouse in Canada—comments from Pascal Thériault

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:52:15 +0000

In Ontario, a fully automated greenhouse allows lettuce to be grown and harvested with virtually no human intervention—a first in Canada.

Haven Greens had to invest $50 million to make it happen. But the result is striking: the company can operate with just five employees in the greenhouse, whereas it would have required more than 100 pickers using the traditional method.

Published: 17 July 2025

Local goods shop is filling the grocery gap in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue—comments from Prof. Daiva Nielsen

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:35:43 +0000

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., residents have a new spot to do their groceries. After the suburb's only grocery store closed for the second time, B Factory, a locally owned beeswax products shop that had been on the verge of bankruptcy, expanded its space to include a small grocery section called Mon Marché Local.

Published: 17 July 2025

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ Joins Ghanaian Partners to Empower Youth and Transform Agrifood Systems

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:18:38 +0000

As part of the Nkabom Collaborative supported by the Mastercard Foundation, �鶹ɫ��Ƭ has joined forces with Ghanaian institutions in a bold initiative to foster youth leadership and transform the agrifood ecosystem in Ghana and beyond.

Published: 17 July 2025

What are those fluffy seeds floating in the air? David Wees explains

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:12:25 +0000

If you've been noticing white fluff floating around Montreal lately, you're not the only one. Those are seeds from the Eastern Cottonwood tree and it's the season that they're spreading through the air.

CBC News spoke to David Wees, Faculty Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ, to find out more.

Published: 17 July 2025

Professor Michael Ngadi calls for enhanced capacity of smallholder farmers in Nigeria

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:59:53 +0000

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ Bioresource Engineering Professor Michael Ngadi called for urgent action to address the challenges facing stallholder farmers in Nigeria at a recent public lecture at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU).

A specialist in developing advanced emerging technologies for monitoring and controlling agrifood processing systems, he discussed the critical role that smallholder farmers and processors play in global food systems, particularly in developing and transition countries.

Published: 17 July 2025

Macdonald alumna Stéphanie Naud heads to World Lumberjacking Championship

webfull — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:08:58 +0000

The athlete began this sport at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ, the only school in Quebec to offer the opportunity to do logging as a sport.

Stéphanie Naud, FMT’14, BSc(AgEnvSc)’17, is representing Canada at the World Timber Sports Championships in Wisconsin from July 16–19.

Published: 17 July 2025

Simple texting platform helps farmers adopt greener methods, �鶹ɫ��Ƭ-led study finds

webfull — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:58:27 +0000

Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new study co-authored by �鶹ɫ��Ƭ Professor Aurélie Harou found.

Published: 16 July 2025

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ Plant Science students win big for conference presentations

webfull — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:59:11 +0000

Congratulations to two plant science students in Professor Mehran Dastmalchi's lab, who received awards for their presentations at two recent conferences!

Published: 30 June 2025

For this B.C. beekeeper and Mac Campus alumna, gathering groceries is sweet and sustainable

webfull — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:42:52 +0000

In a recent article for their What's In My Cart? series, the Globe and Mail profiles 72-year-old Julia Common, a beekeeper based in Delta, B.C. She says she was hooked on bees the first time her hands entered a hive, when she was only 21 and enrolled in agricultural studies at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ’s Macdonald Campus, near her hometown of Montreal.

Published: 30 June 2025