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Sweet, new calf named in honour of Halloween

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Born just one day shy of Halloween, it’s fitting that the newest calf at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is named Kandy. Kandy’s mother, Kathie-Anne, welcomed her new calf into the world at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 30. Kathie-Anne is seven years old, and Kandy is her fifth calf. “The labour lasted for two and a half hours – from the first visible signs of the calf being born,” says Jim Ness, a herdsperson for the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, adding that older cows deliver faster than

Honeybees feel the sting of mystery toxic exposure

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

For the honeybee colony at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, life hasn’t exactly been sweet this fall. In mid-September, the colony suffered from acute poisoning – which typically happens when the bees visit flowers that have been recently sprayed with an insecticide. Sadly, the results were deadly. “When our interpreter came in to the exhibition, three quarters of the bees were piled up at the bottom of the hive,” explains Nadine Dagenais Dessaint, an education, interpretation and

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Decoding the Dance of the Honey Bee, in Real-Time

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

Since the deciphering of the honey bee ‘waggle’ in the 1920’s by Karl von Frisch, researchers have been measuring the dance-like form of communication that allows bees to convey direction and distance to a food source. While this observation process was initially manual and time-consuming – requiring humans, protractors, and stopwatches – techniques have evolved with technology. Recently, a team from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany

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Canola

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The superior cooking oil. Rapeseed was the cash crop for generations of Canadian farmers. The oil produced from the bright yellow-flowering member of the mustard family was used to lubricate the world’s steam engines. But when diesel replaced steam, the demand for rapeseed plummeted, taking many Canadian farm incomes with it. Baldur Stefansson and Keith Downey found an alternative use for rapeseed oil. In 1974, the two agricultural scientists at the University of Manitoba carried out a series of

Marquis Wheat stamp

Marquis Wheat

Ontario Science Centre

What does a good set of teeth have to do with growing wheat? Back in 1903, strong>Charles Saunders headed up grain research at Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. He sometimes used his teeth for a mill and his mouth for an oven, chewing wheat grains into dough to determine their flour and bread quality. Saunders cross-bred wheat varieties from Eastern Europe and India to create a hybrid that would thrive in Canadian conditions. His crowning achievement, Marquis wheat, dominated the

Arthur Sicard snowblower

Snowblower

Ontario Science Centre

How did a dairy farmer dream up a snowblower? He reaped his idea from his neighbour’s combine harvester! Tired of struggling to make milk deliveries during snowy Quebec winters, Arthur Sicard designed a machine to collect and blow away snow instead of grain. Thirty years and several advances in automotive technology later, he developed a modified truck that could scoop and throw snow farther than 25 metres. In 1927 Sicard sold his first snowblowers to cities on the Island of Montreal, selling

David Fife and Red Fife Wheat

In 1842, David Fife developed Red Fife Wheat, the dominant wheat grown in Western Canada for 60 years – 1860 to 1910. Red Fife is the male parent of Marquis Wheat which, in 1915, supplanted Red Fife as the dominant Canadian wheat. Sharon Rempel’s Heritage Wheat Project in 1988 marked the beginning of the Red Fife Wheat Revival. Artisan bakers prefer Red Fife due to its purity (no GMO), wholesome, nutty taste, milling qualities and nutritious taste. Why is Red Fife Wheat important? Agriculture

Iron works in the Georg Fischer Iron Library

Collecting and Connecting

Curators do many things at our three museums – research, develop exhibits, respond to research requests, provide content for museum programs, and host the public, scholars and students in our collections. Collecting, however, is our most important activity. Through collecting we create a material legacy for Canadians; through the act of collecting we connect with Canadians and help connect Canadians with each other. Collecting is not just collection building, it is community building.

4R Nutrient Stewardship - A Pathway to Sustainable Agriculture

The global population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. Smarter, more efficient fertilizer management practices will help growers meet the rising demand for food while minimizing pressure on the environment and meeting societal expectations for sustainable food sourcing. The fertilizer industry and growers across Canada are adopting the top international standard for on-farm nutrient application developed by Fertilizer Canada and first published as a

Neutron Research With Plants

Science To Solve World Hunger: Neutron Research With Plants

Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering

University of Saskatchewan scientists use neutron beams to observe plant roots in soil to aid breeding of drought-resistant crops. Story written by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, in cooperation with the Global Institute for Food Security and the Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre. Two hundred years ago, the problem of the world’s population outpacing our ability to feed ourselves was identified. Thomas Malthus, in 1798, proposed that the world’s food supply would soon be insufficient

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