The 2025 wheat crop develops in early summer in central Manitoba. Photo: Alexis Stockford

Code cracked on nitrogen-fixing wheat?

California researchers used gene editing to create wheat plants that can fix their own nitrogen.

U.S. crop breeders have created a wheat variety capable of fixing its own nitrogen rather than relying on fertilizer.

Whiskey jacks work a lump of deer fat placed near a deer blind. Photo: Tim Sopuck

Hunting with whiskey jacks

Canada jays, or whiskey jacks, make for bold little deer hunting pals to liven up long periods waiting in the blind for a potential shot

Canada jays, or whiskey jacks, are bold little deer hunting pals that don’t mind getting close, if it means a piece of the offal or deer fat left over from a successful forest hunt in Manitoba.