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Two Canadians have been elected to the board of directors of the new Potato Sustainability Alliance. They are John MacQuarrie, Cavendish Farms as chair and Sanford Gleddie, The Little Potato Company as treasurer.
The Canadian Produce Marketing Association and NSF Canada have scheduled the first of several food safety workshops for March 17-18. The meeting venue is the Ontario Food Terminal. More dates across Canadian cities will be announced.
VQH Farms, a perennial competitor, took first place this year with Great Lakes Brewery for the Imperial (double) IPA’ style of craft beer. The annual competition was hosted at the 2020 Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention.
Congrats to all apple growers in the 2020 Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention cider competition held February 19. Winners were announced for sweet cider, specialty cider and common cider.
Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald has mentored dozens of students as professor of plant agriculture, University of Guelph. Equally at home in the field, she’s working with Master’s student Alexandra Dacey, documenting carrot weevil found in carrot trials at the Muck Crops Research Station in Bradford, Ontario.
Grape grower Bill George Jr. will serve a second one-year term. He and his wife Lesliann grow 160 acres of wine grapes in the Niagara region.
A world of flavours awaits convention goers at the new booth of the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers’ Association and The Grower. It’s booth #710 at the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention in Niagara Falls.
According to a Greenbelt Foundation report, there’s room to grow in Ontario. That is for fresh grapes, pears, strawberries, garlic, eggplant, sweet potatoes and microgreens in vertical farms.
Oliver cherry grower Pinder Dhaliwal will continue as president of the 400-member strong BC Fruit Growers’ Association.The annual general meeting was held February 11-12 in Kelowna.
Plan ahead for this year’s Canadian Produce Marketing Association convention and trade show in Toronto in mid-May. One of the guest speakers is Chef Massimo Capra. Early bird registration ends March 6.
Pyganic crop protection insecticide controls several insect pests of low-growing berries such as lowbush blueberries.
The provincial minor use coordinators are gathering input from their stakeholders about critical priorities for pathology, entomology and weed science.
Weed control in herbs is now improved for mint in particular.
The Frontier Max herbicide label is expanded for control of specific weeds on transplanted leeks in Canada.
Kam Chiu Lee, co-founder of Vancouver-based Fresh Direct Produce, has passed due to cancer.
Collaborative. Untiring. Tenacious. These are some of the adjectives that Brian Gilroy, president, Canadian Horticultural Council used to describe four award winners at the 98thannual general meeting in Ottawa.
Chris McQueen is the newest member of the senior management team at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre.
Stokes Seeds welcomes aboard Alexandre Bisson as a new Quebec territory manager, based on the south shore region of Montréal.
A new Eco-Lok closure offers the same safety, quality and rigidity as former plastic closures with lower carbon footprint.
United Fresh 2019 offers a glimpse into the future with a TEC Zone featuring 24 top ag tech start-up companies. One of those is Montreal-based Motorleaf, which uses artificial intelligence to automate harvest yield estimates and disease scouting in tomato and pepper greenhouses.
Hazel Technologies Inc., based in Salinas, California, has developed a small, biodegradable and food-safe insert to extend the shelf life of a carton of fresh fruit. Now the post-harvest sachet is being launched for one of the most challenging fruits to keep fresh – cherries.
Scabby potatoes are unmarketable. However, molecular technology has determined that the most predominant species in Ontario might be one that could be controlled with cultural practices.
