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Nature Fresh Farms is the first greenhouse to offer employees health services through a mobile clinic. It’s operated by the Windsor-Essex Community Health Centre.
The fresh produce supply chain in Canada contributes more than $17 billion in added value to the national economy and supports 249,000 jobs.
About 500 Ontario grape growers are eligible to apply for funding under Marketing and Vineyard Improvement Programming. The intake for applications opens March 5, 2020.
The sun sets on an organophosphate insecticide used since 1966. Corteva has announced a phase-out of chlorpyrifos by end of 2020 due to declining sales.
An update to the Program Management Manual, Version 8.0 will be published on April 1, 2020. One of the changes is that CanadaGAP certification bodies must perform unannounced audits on 10 per cent of their clients each year. That’s up from five per cent annually.
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture calculates that a Canadian household of average income will have earned enough to pay the entire year’s grocery bill. In 2019, 10.9 per cent of disposable income was spent on food.
The Yoom tomato bred by Syngenta Seeds has been voted the 2020 Innovation of the Year by fair goers to the Fruit Logistica trade show in Berlin.
Hussam Haroun has joined Vineland Research and Innovation Centre as director of automation, overseeing artificial intelligence and digital agriculture technologies.
Rootshield HC biological fungicide label is expanded for suppression of Botrytis blight and root rot on Asian water spinach.
Horticulture will be bolstered in southwestern Ontario with the hiring of Cassandra Russell and Andrew Wylie. They will be based in Ridgetown.
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.
This biological insecticide label has been extended for control of additional pests on fruiting vegetables such as eggplant and greenhouse strawberries.
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.
