News - University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba student and Niverville resident Agnes Neufeld is Manitoba’s winner for BMO 1st Art! 2012 – Canada’s only national graduating artist competition.

The University of Manitoba expects new tools being developed to help pork producers planning the switch to group sow housing choose the system that best matches their management to be ready for use by this coming fall.

New tools being developed by the University of Manitoba will help pork producers planning to switch to group housing of gestating sows identify the system that will best match their individual operations.

A researcher with the University of Manitoba is confident new tools being developed to assess the risk factors associated with lameness among group housed sows will help pork producers increase longevity and improve the profitability of their farms.

On January 27, 2012, the University of Manitoba publicly thanked the federal and provincial governments for their financial support of the renovation and redevelopment of two major education and research facilities in the Faculty of Science.

Canadian farmers will benefit from a partnership between the Government of Canada, industry and universities across Canada to boost producer profitability through green agriculture technologies.

Manitoba’s pork producers are confident a newly opened farm and food discovery centre will play a key role in educating consumers about what it takes to put food on their tables.

The University of Manitoba’s new Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre is expected to ply a key role in bridging the gap between those who produce our food and those who consume it.

Manitoba’s egg producers are applauding the opportunity to show the public how farm animals are raised without compromising biosecurity.

A food safety scientist with the University of Manitoba is calling on governments to step up their focus on the identification of the foods and the pathogens that are most frequently responsible for foodborne illness.