When it comes to valuable outside-the-classroom learning experiences, a competition attended by a team of students from McGill鈥檚 Macdonald Campus ticked all the boxes.听
Four students in the听Farm Management and Technology (FMT) program听travelled to California in early April for the 2024 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge.
No one can say for sure whether Canada鈥檚 2024 wildfire season will be as devastating as last year, when 15 million hectares of forest burned and over 230,000 people had to be evacuated from their communities, but the relative lack of snow this winter, drought conditions in several regions and an early start to fire season have officials on high alert.
CBC News interviewed听agronomist and economist听Pascal Th茅riault, McGill Farm Management and Technology Program Director, about recent protests by Quebec farmers asking for more government aid as they face听rising costs of business and financial hardship.
"There's a need to actually start re-thinking programs to be able to better accommodate for the future over the long run,"听Th茅riault told journalists.
Photo: Ana茂s Remili (centre), winner of the Prize for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows, with Val茅rie Orsat, Acting Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and McGill President, Deep Saini
In听The Conversation, Department of Natural Resource Sciences PhD Candidate Elson Ian Nyl Galang and听Dalhousie University Postdoc听Lara Cornejo write about their experience gathering听a group of leading thinkers in Halifax, near the iconic Bay of Fundy, to set about imagining 鈥渨hat could plausibly happen to the Bay of Fundy coast by 2072.鈥�
On March 21, McGill celebrated 111 laureates at the 19th听edition of Bravo, a gala event honouring researchers who won major provincial, national, and international research prizes and awards in 2023. Guests, including researchers, their families and friends, faculty, students, and members of McGill鈥檚 academic administration, gathered to celebrate their accomplishments.
Eight of the honourees were from the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:
The Palais des congr猫s de Montr茅al honoured five McGill professors at its 2024 ambassadors鈥� gala for their exceptional contributions to the city鈥檚 economic and societal growth. Although there are a few other professors among the total of 14, McGill alone can boast of multiple honourees.
The basis for earning the kudos is the ability to organize large-scale events in Montreal.听
Congratulations to School of Human Nutrition PhD candidate Manon Fantino, winner of McGill鈥檚 francophone 3-Minute Thesis (MT180) competition! Manon will represent McGill at the Concours Nationals in Ottawa on May 15th.
Although Zoey Li, BSc(NutrSc)鈥�17, always had an interest in business, she never expected to launch a company that helps people take charge of their health.
Li, who was recently named to the听Forbes 30 Under 30听in the food and beverage category, built her success on her ability to find opportunities, develop new skills and make connections, as an undergraduate and afterward.
Macdonald community members gathered at the Ceilidh on Wednesday, April 3, to celebrate the Gold Key Recipients for 2024. Students, staff, friends, and family listened in as听Daniil Batanau, Henry Cordoba Novoa, Sara Kosumi, Philippe Leblond, and Henry Lee听shared their inspiring stories of how they became involved in community life at Macdonald Campus and how rewarding it has been for them to give back to their fellow students.
Student engagement was high at the Future of Food Conference in Ottawa, as youth turned out to hear panellists and keynote speeches by stakeholders from across the agriculture value chain.
Several student groups from Queen鈥檚, McGill and the University of Ottawa heard about sustainability, innovation and politics in agriculture at the February event.
McGill Farm Management and Technology student Aidan Velthuis, who grew up on a dairy farm south of Ottawa, attended the conference.
It鈥檚 possible animals 鈥� pets and wildlife alike 鈥� will behave unusually during Quebec鈥檚 total solar eclipse on April 8 , according to experts on their behaviour.
David Bird, emeritus professor of wildlife biology at 香蕉视频, that birds, insects and bats are the main groups expected to be affected, or 鈥渢he main ones that everybody鈥檚 sort of keeping an eye on.鈥�
Imagine cows roaming freely in a barn equipped with cameras and sensors linked to artificial intelligence in a system that predicts their mood and lifespan. Implementing such a system is the mission of the new Research and Innovation Chair in Animal Welfare and Artificial Intelligence (), created jointly by 香蕉视频 and UQAM thanks to $5 million in funding over five years.
McGill Farm Management and Technology Program Director听Pascal Th茅riault听spoke to Radio-Canada's听Le Caf茅 Show about what regenerative agriculture is, how it can improve water retention in the soil鈥攁n increasingly important consideration as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of drought in the prairies, and its role in carbon capture.
Rising costs of cocoa due to drought and disease affecting crop yields is听proof of how global warming is hitting our pocketbooks, agronomist and economist听Pascal Th茅riault, McGill Farm Management and Technology Program Director, .
The food system "relies on stability, and what climate change does is it creates situations where nothing is stable," he said.
