For John Fedorkow, it’s a lifetime achievement to be honoured as Grape King 2019. He was photographed at his 75-acre vineyard near St. David’s, Ontario.

Walmart is not the top grocery retailer in Canada in sales– Loblaw has that distinction -- but it is globally with in-store net sales of about $503 billion. Of that number, $49 billion is in on-line net sales, a sales channel that’s expected to double in value in the next five years.

Arizona growers, who market 52 million cartons of lettuce annually, have adopted more stringent water quality metrics.

Damage from Hurricane Dorian’s winds and rains varies depending on crop and location in the Maritimes. Assessments are underway.

The London-Ontario based association, Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers, has named Keith Robbins to the role of general manager. He starts September 17, 2019.

Kanemite miticide label has been expanded for control of spider mites on hops in Canada.

Tilt 250E foliar fungicide is now registered for control of Cercospora Leaf Spot in garden beets.

A New Zealand company’s bite-sized apples caught the jury’s eye at Asia Fruit Logistica, held September 4-6 in Hong Kong. Rockit Global has won the marketing campaign of the year.

Norwegian’s BAMA Packaging has won Scandinavian’s ScanStar award for paper packaging for blueberries.The shape makes optimal use of packing space in trucks.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the first active ingredient, Vectorite, of Bee Vectoring Technologies, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Commercially-reared bumblebees deliver the biopesticide as they visit flowering fruits - a low-cost, waterless method of crop protection.