News - University of Manitoba

A researcher with the University of Manitoba says, whether choosing to treat or cull, early detection is key to addressing lameness within the sow herd.

Members of another full class of 110 medical students are beginning their journey towards a rewarding career in medicine and this class has nearly as many women as men and includes many with rural roots.

The Manitoba government’s investments to expand the University of Manitoba’s medical school, create recruitment grants, and build and renew hospitals are paying off with a record 2,599 doctors now practising in Manitoba.

The visitor services manager with the University of Manitoba’s Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre reports the number of guests visiting the facility continues to grow.

Keystone Agricultural Producers vice-president Dan Mazier is enthusiastic about a new agreement between the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences in Winnipeg, and Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College.

A researcher with the University of Manitoba says the majority of Canadian pork producers making the switch to group housing of gestating sows will be looking at converting existing operations.

New software developed by the University of Manitoba will help pork producers planning to move from stall housing of gestating sows to group housing design the system that will best fit their needs.

A first of its kind Professorship in Agriculture Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Manitoba will focus on the creation of insurance based solutions to address some of the challenges being faced by Canadian farmers.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba today recognized the creation of a new Guy Carpenter Professorship in Agriculture Risk Management and Insurance in the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba.

Researchers with the University of Manitoba hope to have new tools available in 2013 to assist pork producers planning the switch to group housing of sows choose the system that will best work for them.