With many producers in Western Canada getting ready for spring seeding and focusing on their seeded acres, it can be easy to ...

Conifers are planted as shelterbelts, windbreaks, living snow fences and winter wildlife thermal cover on farms and in other rural areas. They bear cones and are sometimes called evergreens.

In partnership with FENZ, University of Canterbury student George Hamilton was part of a team of science students who spent 12 weeks identifying and mapping hedgerows and shelterbelts in rural ...