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CropLife Canada is asking growers for their best resistance management tips, tricks and success stories. Go to pestmanagementchallenge.ca for a contest running from November 29, 2022 to March 31, 2023. -
Lambda-cyhalothrin is the active ingredient in two ADAMA products available in Canada - Silencer and Zivata – which are both marketed for use on multiple crops ranging from fruits to canola. @ADAMA_CAN #cropprotection -
The PMRA has requested use information for the insecticide methoxyfenozide, known under the brand name Intrepid. Survey results are due no later than November 25, 2022. -
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has expanded the minor use label to help manage weeds in raspberries and blackberries in eastern Canada and British Columbia – excluding the Peace River region.
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After 11 years of service, David Jones is retiring from the Canadian Potato Council in March 2023. A talent search is underway for his successor. -
Industry leaders were applauded at the PEI Potato Board’s annual banquet on Nov 24, 2022, an event that had been postponed for two years due to the pandemic, Hurricane Fiona and potato wart crisis. -
Rachael LeBlanc, research scientist, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, has been honoured with the Science and Technology Award from the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce, Women in Business Awards. -
The Ontario Produce Marketing Association honoured a dozen individuals and organizations at the annual gala on November 18, 2022. One of the seven Produce Heroes was Jody Mott, executive director of the Holland Marsh Growers’ Association.
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Creative minds at the United Nations have released a video that educates about the building blocks of soil and how they translate into healthy food. T… -
US Apple has updated statistics on the Washington State apple crop, the largest producer in the United States. As of November 1, 2022, Washington’s ho… -
The November 2022 awards in Bolzano Italy were dedicated to technologies that optimize water management in apple orchards, allowing water savings and… -
The North American leader in canned and frozen vegetable processing will now be known as Nortera. Its head office will be in Brossard, Québec.
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An Alberta potato grower is reducing use of synthetic fertilizers by brewing his own biological fertilizer with five strains of live bacteria that… -
The ambition of the Feenstra family – Rich, John and father Peter – continues to grow for Mountainview Orchards, Beamsville, Ontario. It’s a story of… -
The 2021 Canadian Census of Agriculture revealed the largest ever cohort of farmers aged 55-plus. Yet farmers are producing more with smart… -
The branding of greenhouse vegetables – and fruits – has reached such sophistication that a kitchen was built inside the new marketing quarters of…
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The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network announces funding for five projects, two of which are of interest to horticulture. -
Greenhouse grower Mucci Farms is honing its expertise in strawberry cultivation by conducting onsite experimental lighting strategies under Sollum's… -
The University of Windsor is partnering with a local greenhouse operation, Horteca, for research and proof-of-concept designs. The partnership will… -
The Ontario agriculture ministry has announced $7.25 million for 50 Ontario-led research and innovation projects. Two of them are in the greenhouse…
Charles Stevens, chair of the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers’ Association, says that farmers aren’t receiving enough to cover rising input costs.
Holland Marsh grower Ron Gleason farms in Ontario and Georgia. Columnist Owen Roberts explores his unique perspective of how the seasonal agricultural worker programs work in Canada and the U.S.
As we approach the holiday season, media will sharpen their focus on the cost of food and carve up all the predictions for food trends for 2023.
In May 2022, Health Canada concluded that gene-edited plant products should be regulated similar to all other products of plant breeding. Columnist Chris Duyvelshoff describes the arc of plant genetics from Mendel to modern times.
Columnist Luc Bérubé makes it a point to talk about protection of workers who use crop protection products. He shared his best tips at a field day this past August 2022 near Rivière-du-Loup, Québec.
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has approved an emergency use registration for Tough 600 EC herbicide for control of labelled weeds in carrots in numerous provinces in Canada. The registration is from May 1 to December 31, 2022.
