Month: May 2014
10 posts
Why European Agriculture Developed Faster than South America’s (Pt. 2)
Jagmeet Khabra Beginning of Agriculture and Domestication People started domesticating plants and animals roughly 10,000 years ago as…
Why European Agriculture Developed Faster than South America’s (Pt. 1)
Jagmeet Khabra Introduction Historians and scholars have long been asking themselves whether or not Europe won the agricultural…
Chicken Squad!
Cate Pedersen Starring real BC chicken farmers An action-packed, Hollywood blockbuster-style trailer starring British Columbia chicken farmers is…
To cage or not to cage?
Ronda Payne Issues surrounding laying chicken environments Comfortable chickens are productive chickens, as every egg producer knows, but…
From Field to Fork: Part 1
Dr. Lenore Newman Part one: Food Sovereignty, Local Food, and a Healthy Region What we eat can have…
Future Plant Efficiency (to feed 9.6 billion people)
Eric Gerbrandt, Pacific Berry Resource Centre, UFV Improving plant genetic efficiency is one of the key human innovations used…
Biochar: Another tool in the toolbox
Chantal Lavoi Alternative Growing Media In Greenhouses Producers of all kinds have developed agronomic “tool boxes” that change…
The Silver Scurf
Silver scurf is a major concern for potato growers in the Lower Mainland The fungus infects potatoes before…
Quality potatoes require early damage control
Kiara Jack The economic loss from damaged tubers can be very high. Protecting tubers against damage is a challenge…
Never too early to protect against late blight
Susan Smith & Siva Sabaratnam As members of the nightshade or solanaceous family, potato and tomato plants are…