Ontario ag minister Ernie Hardeman has called for direct contracting between...
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The new chair of Agricorp's board of directors is fourth-generation carrot and onion...
Canada’s largest grocer spent the last year rolling out its new digital services, and will continue to invest in technologies to improve customer satisfaction and company revenues. Loblaw’s e-commerce sales surpassed $0.5 billion in 2018.
Canadian horticultural leader Ken Porteous will be inducted into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame. He has been chair of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association and president of the Canadian Horticultural Council, among many other notable industry contributions.
North Bay Farmers’ Market took home Farmers’ Market of the Year in the inaugural awards of excellence from Farmers’ Markets Ontario (FMO). Their winter market runs through April 2019.
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The Canadian Association of Ag Retailers recently hosted a panel of four leaders of leading crop protection companies. Their lesson? Message sent does not equal message delivered.
The Ontario Farm Fresh Marketing Association recognized excellence among its members recently with awards in several categories of direct farm marketing.
The Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention hosts a student poster competition every year. This year’s winner, Leah Blechschmidt, addressed the abundance and diversity of native bees in Ontario apple orchards.
Innovative apple grower Tom Chudleigh, who was instrumental in establishing pick-your-own orchards as a popular agri-tourism activity in Ontario, is the winner of this year’s Arysta Golden Apple Award. He shares the award with wife Carol and family.
The successes of the British Columbia cherry growers are due to years of work gaining access to Asian markets. Japan is the latest.
Health Canada will be cancelling some uses and restricting others of three neonicotinoid pesticides. Changes are ahead for crops ranging from tree fruits to berries to cucurbit vegetables. All uses for orchard trees, for example, have been cancelled.
The extended label on this insecticide will assist growers in controlling carrot weevil in a number of root vegetables.
For the upcoming season, growers have access to another tool for suppression of spotted wing drosophila in a number of berry crops and stone fruits.
The extended label on this foliar fungicide will assist growers in suppressing powdery mildew on field and greenhouse mint as well as greenhouse-grown lettuce.
The new chair of Agricorp's board of directors is fourth-generation carrot and onion farmer Jason Verkaik. He’s a past chair of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association.
Louise Fresco, president of Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands joined Syngenta’s board of directors, effective April 12, 2019. The university is highly regarded world-wide for its research in horticulture and other agricultural sciences.
AgScape, the voice of agriculture in the classroom for Ontario, has hired Glenna Banda as its new executive director. She has headed The Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington (CFGW) for the past nine years.
Phil Tregunno remains chair of the Ontario Tender Fruit Growers for 2019.
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.
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.
