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The Fallow Fields
Delta Soil Productivity Evaluation Driving through the Fraser Valley, one can easily spot many high-yield forage fields dotting…
December 6, 2015
The Science of Wine: The Quest for the Perfect Grape
By Cate Pedersen The senses unravel the mysteries of a fine wine—a vintner can read the subtlety in…
September 20, 2015
UBC, Faculty of Land and Food Systems: A place to grow
Returning to familiar ground, Dr. Rickey Yada takes on his new role of Dean of the University of…
February 24, 2015
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…
May 29, 2014
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…
May 28, 2014