Gowan is creating a new business unit to develop bio-solutions, built around EcoFlora Agro SAS.

Vineland Growers’ Co-operative Ltd. will become the exclusive marketer for The Norfolk...
Last fall’s unprecedented rainy and muddy harvest across many potato-growing regions...
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre is looking for participants to taste samples...
Gowan is creating a new business unit to develop bio-solutions, built around EcoFlora Agro SAS.
Food recalls from romaine lettuce to cauliflower have been generating headlines. A new $1-million gift to hire food safety expert Prof. Lawrence Goodridge and to expand other initiatives couldn't have come at a better time.
Plants and plant-based protein are the favoured food groups in the draft edition of the new Canada Food Guide.
Health Canada scientists have again rejected arguments that glyphosate causes cancer. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup.
Nova Scotia has a new minister in the federal cabinet in the new portfolio of Rural Economic Development. She’s MP Bernadette Jordan who has represented the riding of South Shore-St. Margarets since 2015.
Potato growers have another tool against pink rot and Pythium leak with Syngenta Canada’s new Orondis Gold Potato fungicide.
Niagara’s grape and wine industry is mourning the untimely passing of Michèle Bosc, the vice-president of marketing and administration for Chateau des Charmes winery. Located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, the trail-blazing winery had just celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2018.
The United Nations is proclaiming World Food Safety Day for the first time on June 7 to encourage efforts to prevent foodborne illness.
Just over half of all Canadians eat take-out food once a week or more. What are the implications for Canada’s fruit and vegetable industry?
President of the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity, Crystal MacKay, is leaving after a decade of leading industry associations. She’ll continue in her role until after the annual general meeting in April 2019.
UPL has purchased Arysta LifeScience from its parent company Platform Specialty Products, and launched its new purpose called OpenAg, in support of the company’ s long-term vision.
Helicovex has been added to the growing list of biological controls from Sylvar Technologies Inc. This new mode of action is important in controlling corn earworm in sweet corn.
BASF’s newly released Sefina is now available to Canadian potato farmers for aphid control.
Gowan is creating a new business unit to develop bio-solutions, built around EcoFlora Agro SAS.
Vineland Growers’ Co-operative Ltd. will become the exclusive marketer for The Norfolk Fruit Growers’ Association fresh apple program, beginning with the 2019 apple harvest.
Anne Verhallen, soil management specialist for horticulture crops with the Ontario ministry of agriculture, food and rural affairs, was honoured as one of this year’s Soil Champion award recipients.
Ken Knox, former deputy minister of the Ontario ministry of agriculture, food and rural affairs, has been appointed by the Ontario government as chair of the Ontario Food Terminal Board. He has a one-year term ending January 16, 2020.
Kyle Hart joins the AgSafe team as a new safety consultant and advisor for the central Okanagan region in British Columbia.
Several Ontario vegetable farms are working together to trial new transplanting technology they hope will save time and labour.
Fruit Logistica hosts the first Start-up Day presenting 20 entrepreneurs in ten-minute intervals on February 8, 2019. One new technology is an indoor drone for insect control in greenhouses.
Day-neutral strawberries help meet market demands, but growers face new pest management obstacles.
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre researchers hope that federal funding will help them build a network to accelerate development and commercialization of labour-saving agricultural technologies.