-----Original Message----- From: Martin Entz [mailto:mentz@cc.umanitoba.ca] Sent: May-03-12 11:41 AM To: Bev Godard Subject: please send to grad students in Plant and Soils departments

Dear Students,

The Plant Science graduate course "Advanced Crop Production (PLNT 7660)" will be offered in the fall term 2012. This 3 credit course focusses on new developments and new thinking about crop production issues.

I welcome all graduate students to this course. The only prerequisite for this course is that you are enrolled in a graduate program.

This year's theme will be "Agronomics of food security and food sovereignty". We will review assumptions underpinning food security actions and we will discuss practical "on the ground" approaches for food security and food sovereignty.

The course will not officially begin until September 2012 but there will be monthly get togethers in June, July and August and a possible short summer tour. The summer component is important because it allows students and instructors to visit field sites. The fall component of the course will be shortened slightly to account for the "classroom hours" in summer.

If you interested in taking this course, please contact Dr. Martin Entz at m_entz@umanitoba.ca

-- Dr. Martin H. Entz Professor of Agronomy and Cropping Systems Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg Canada

visit my website: http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/naturalagriculture/