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Agriculture programs change with the times
Published: 28 February 2020
Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.
...For a long time, Canada鈥檚 university-level agricultural programs looked to be tracking with that general decline. Jim Fyles is a professor in the faculty of agricultural and environmental sciences at 69热视频, where he also holds the Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology. When he came to 69热视频 in 1988, he recalls that 鈥渁gricultural enrolment was in freefall. 鈥� It was obvious that almost no parent aspired for their child to be farmer.鈥�