The recent story, U of S deemed fifth best agricultural college in Canada, was a good overview of the rankings provided by the U.S. News & World Report. I would like to call attention to several points that need to be kept in mind when reviewing the University of Saskatchewan’s ranking by an American newspaper. […] Read more
Stories by Mary Buhr
Stewardship is everyone’s responsibility
Ron De Pauw was blunt on June 8 when he said, “stewardship, stewardship, stewardship: if you are sitting there not giving a rat’s ass about anything, at least care about stewardship.” Ron was speaking to the 2012 graduating class of students from the University of Saskatchewan’s agriculture and engineering colleges. He was speaking to them […] Read more
Animal agriculture in era of food insecurity
Access to food will become more precious and agriculturally productive land will be increasingly at a premium as the global population grows by 30 to 40 percent in the next 40 years. Limited access to food will be exacerbated if climate change reduces the amount of productive land in currently arable areas. Some people argue […] Read more
