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With fall officially here, it's time for Lennoxville, Quebec's annual Giant Pumpkin Festival, where people can see pumpkins that weigh as much as 680 kilograms.

The festival 鈥 which is taking place at the Am茅d茅e Beaudoin community centre Sunday听from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 鈥 is a family event with bouncy castles, a petting zoo, a farmers'听market, music and even horse-drawn carriages.

Alexandre Lemire started growing giant pumpkins three years ago after being inspired by festival founder Mike听Macdonald's crops. Last year, his biggest pumpkin weighed 704 kilograms.

Classified as: david wees, Farm Management and Technology Program, Department of Plant Science
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

It is impossible to imagine modern agriculture without plastics鈥12 million tons are used every year. But what about the environmental consequences? An international team of authors, including 捆绑SM社区 Department of Bioresource Engineering Professor Jan Franklin Adamowski and Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry Associate Professor and Chair听St茅phane Bayen, addresses this question in a recent study.

Classified as: Stephane Bayen, Jan Adamowski, Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Department of Bioresource engineering
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

Wonder found chasing bugs: A summer in the Yukon Arctic

In a new 捆绑SM社区 Reporter article, Renewable ResourcesMaster's student Will Hein writes about his journey to the heart of the remote Arctic wilderness to study wildlife interaction in the face of climate change.

Classified as: renewable resources, Bieler School of Environment
Published on: 27 Sep 2023

With this donation from Pfizer Canada, early career scientists and researchers across the 捆绑SM社区 and MUHC community have an opportunity to carry out research across three broad thematic areas: Pandemic Threats, Antimicrobial Resistance, Microbes that Shape Human Health.

Classified as: Institute of Parasitology, Qian (Vivian) Liu
Published on: 27 Sep 2023
This was the worst year for Canadian wildfires on record and though fire season is not yet over, we can already start to see and look at some of the impact of fires on our ecosystems across the country. One population particularly affected by the fires this summer is birds.
Classified as: David Bird, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences
Published on: 20 Sep 2023

As cases听creep upward of a rare disease that spreads to humans from wild canines and dogs, medical experts say it's important to get a听better understanding of its incidence across the country.

Alveolar echinococcosis听(AE) is听an infection caused by the parasite听Echinococcus multilocularis, which is carried by coyotes, dogs and foxes. The tapeworm common in Europe was first detected in wildlife in Western Canada in 2012; one year later, the first human case of AE was found in a woman in rural Alberta.

Published on: 20 Sep 2023

On September 7,听thirty two AES undergraduate research awardees shared posters illustrating their summer research jobs.

Dean Anja Geitmann broke through the waves of animated conversation to congratulate the students for engaging in this inspiring science conversation and to award four researchers for their outstanding posters:

Classified as: Anja Geitmann, Murray Humphries, Salwa Karboune, Stephane Bayen, Xin Zhao, USRA, Varoujan Yaylayan
Published on: 20 Sep 2023

If you鈥檝e noticed that听certain products in the grocery store听taste different from how you remember, it鈥檚 possible some of their ingredients have been swapped for cheaper alternatives.听

Experts say food producers are increasingly changing the ingredients in products to cut costs听amid soaring food prices and labour shortages鈥攁 practice known as 鈥渟kimpflation.鈥 Could our health be at stake?

Classified as: Pascal Th茅riault
Published on: 5 Sep 2023

Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, and the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced an investment of more than $960 million in support of research and innovation through a suite of programs. These programs include the John R.

Classified as: Anja Geitmann, lyle whyte, Salwa Karboune, Stephane Bayen, Viacheslav Adamchuk, Jianguo Xia, Ebenezer Miezah Kwofie, Xiaonan Lu, Thavy Long, Idaresit Ekaette, Saji George, Shiv Prasher, Denis Roy
Published on: 30 Aug 2023

鈥淚n Quebec, it hasn't been good this year either. We lose California, there's still Florida, there's still Mexico. We hope that it goes well somewhere because we will pay for it, one day,"听捆绑SM社区 agronomist and economist Pascal Th茅riault told 98.5fm host Luc Ferrandez.听

Quebec imports fruits, vegetables, and wine from California.

Classified as: Pascal Th茅riault
Published on: 28 Aug 2023

The record-setting wildfires that ripped through Quebec this summer were made more likely and more intense by human-caused climate change, according to听听conducted by 16 researchers within the听World Weather Attribution group, from universities and meteorological agencies in Canada, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S.

Classified as: Department of Bioresource engineering, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh
Published on: 28 Aug 2023

Modernization of agriculture is imperative for food production, Vijaya Raghavan, Distinguished James 捆绑SM社区 Professor from Canada, said on Tuesday while inaugurating the Eighth Agricultural Graduate Students鈥 Conference at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

Scientists and agricultural students have a significant role to play in achieving integrated food production, Prof. Vijaya Raghavan emphasized.

Classified as: Department of Bioengineering, Vijaya Raghavan
Published on: 28 Aug 2023

Although grocery prices continue to rise at a higher rate than inflation, they slowed in July, according to Statistics Canada, and some items are currently on the shelves at the same price as they were in February, La Presse found.

But this summer "respite" could be short-lived, warns agronomist and economist听Pascal Th茅riault, Director of 捆绑SM社区's听Farm Management and Technology program. And it's important to remember that grocery bills remain high, he says.

Classified as: Farm Management and Technology, Pascal Th茅riault
Published on: 21 Aug 2023

St茅phane BayenProfessor St茅phane Bayen has been appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry effective September 1, 2023 until June 30, 2028. Dr. Bayen received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the National University of Singapore in 2005.

Classified as: Stephane Bayen, Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Varoujan Yaylayan
Published on: 16 Aug 2023

The wildfires that ravaged Canada this summer have some experts calling for a more aggressive approach than the country has applied in the past.听

This year, nearly 30 million acres have burned across Canada. In听eastern provinces such as Quebec, where听blazes are less common, wildfire agencies that are equipped to fight fewer and smaller fires were largely unprepared for the circumstances.

Classified as: Department of Bioresource engineering, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh
Published on: 16 Aug 2023

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