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Gus was born in Elrose, Saskatchewan and grew up on a farm where he acquired a life-long love for the land. He earned a BSc (Agr) and MSc at the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD in soil chemistry from Cornell University. Gus spent the majority of his academic career at 涩里番's Macdonald Campus where he pioneered fertility research in crop production, maximizing crop yield and the value of fertilizer management.

Every year, patches of Australian forests are consumed by fire, an ecologically necessary process that releases soil nutrients and stimulates plant growth. When the fire season is exacerbated by drought and high temperature, however, the devastation is so great that some citizens are forced to flee their homes. In the most extreme circumstances, natural habitats are ruined completely, even to the point of species extirpation.聽

芦鈥塉e suis un gardien de la Terre, j鈥檈n prends soin.鈥壜� C鈥檈st ainsi que Peter G. Brown, producteur forestier certifi茅 et professeur 脿 la Facult茅 des sciences de l鈥檃griculture et de l鈥檈nvironnement de l鈥橴niversit茅 涩里番, r茅sume sa philosophie 脿 l鈥櫭ゞard de sa terre 脿 bois d鈥檈nviron 400 acres dans la municipalit茅 de Franklin, en Mont茅r茅gie.

Once prevalent in Montreal, the littlest falcon's downfall is a bellwether for hard times. 鈥淭he story of the kestrel is happening to other bird species.鈥�

Throughout the 1900s, North America鈥檚 littlest falcon was also described as the continent鈥檚 most common and widespread. Small but fierce and marked with bright plumage rare in the raptor world, the American kestrel could be seen throughout the continent, diving and swooping in fallow fields or under the stadium lights at baseball games, hunting for plump moths or small mice.

In 2019 鈥� with the help of the Borlaug Training Foundation 鈥� [Germination] put out the call to plant breeders asking them what they would do if they had $10 million to make the world a better place. Valerio Hoyos-Villegas, pulse breeder at 涩里番, answered the call. He tells his story about how growing up around the coffee farms of Colombia set him on the path to helping feed the planet. Hosted by Germination editor Marc Zienkiewicz.

Faire pousser des v茅g茅taux sur du b茅ton? C鈥檈st possible, pratique et m锚me tr猫s esth茅tique. Mark Lefsrud et son 茅quipe, les chercheurs Sadie Moland et Intisar Syed Mahood, du D茅partement de g茅nie en bioressources de l鈥橴niversit茅 涩里番, ont d茅velopp茅 un mur v茅g茅tal vertical nouveau genre : tomates, chou fris茅, laitues et 茅pinards poussent, non pas dans la terre, mais dans du b茅ton poreux biocompatible. Ce substrat horticole original n鈥檈st pas encore commercialis茅, mais il fait ses preuves depuis trois ans dans les serres de l鈥檜niversit茅.

Le programme en production de cannabis commercial de l鈥橴niversit茅 涩里番, qui accueillera sa premi猫re cohorte en juin 2020, sera un moteur pour la recherche et les collaborations entre l鈥橴niversit茅 et le secteur priv茅.

Le nouveau dipl么me a re莽u le feu vert de la direction de l鈥橴niversit茅, ce qui fait de 涩里番 l鈥檜ne des premi猫res universit茅s canadiennes 脿 offrir un programme d鈥櫭﹖udes dans le domaine.