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Gowan Canada says that Magister SC miticide is registered for the 2023 growing season. The product is also classified as a FRAC Group 39 fungicide with a mode of action that controls powdery mildew in pome fruit, small fruit climbing vine, stone fruits and cucurbits. -
Negotiators at the COP15 Biodiversity Conference in Montreal agreed to reduce the risk of pesticide pollution rather than pesticide use. Pierre Petelle, CropLife Canada, explains why that’s a positive outcome. -
Josh Mosiondz, minor use coordinator for OMAFRA, reports that the label for Entrust insecticide has been expanded for control of Colorado Potato Beetle on greenhouse-grown eggplant. -
Today, we can access fertilizer innovations like controlled-release coatings, nutrient stabilizers, optimized pH, and biologicals. As we attempt to solve agriculture’s unique challenges, there is power in working together to combine local grower knowledge with global learnings.
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Dr. Sikkika Mithani, president of the federal agency that oversees plant and animal health, and food safety has resigned effective January 20, 2023. -
Jason Smith, Fraser Berry Farms, Abbotsford, British Columbia, joins the 2023 board of directors of a newly expanded slate for the North American Blueberry Council. -
Dr. Peter VanderZaag, a potato grower from Alliston, Ontario and an international researcher and lecturer, is the new president and CEO. -
The new director of marketing and communications started her career as an intern with Sobeys Inc. She brings eight years of experience in various public and private sectors in Manitoba.
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U.S. ag secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the potential for 21 innovative projects to increase fertilizer capacity. Public comments end in early Feb… -
Potato processor Lamb Weston predicts an increase in net sales for 2023. How this optimism translates to potato grower contracts is still to be negoti… -
South African company Dragonfly Aerospace has announced lift-off of its satellite on January 3. 2023 from the SpaceX launch site in Cape Canaveral, Fl… -
Be in Berlin, February 8-10, 2023. That’s the invitation of Fruit Logistica’s organizers who are spotlighting launches of innovative products and tech…
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Tree fruit growers Elly Hoff and her brother Fred Meyers serve coffee to their Mexican workers Eduardo Bautista and Victor Lugo. In January 2023,… -
Farmers never retire. They transition. That’s the case with grape grower Bill Schenck and his son Brian who are in discussions with other family… -
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…
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Las Vegas is the site of the world’s biggest launch pad for new technology. The 2023 award in the Food/AgTech category went to GUSS Automation… -
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…
Charles Stevens, chair of the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers’ Association, is setting the table for the February 21, 2023 annual general meeting. He points out the need for upgraded energy infrastructure, especially to support the greenhouse sector.
Bee Vectoring Technologies, with roots at the University of Guelph, is partnering with Agri-Spray Drones in the U.S. on application of the Canadian company’s proprietary Clonostachys rosea CR-7 biological fungicide. Columnist Owen Roberts writes that regulation is advancing more slowly than drone technology itself.
Don’t get lost in translation, counsels Retail Navigator columnist Peter Chapman. The opening of T & T’s biggest Asian-centric store and first store in Montréal, Québec underscores the challenges and opportunities in niche markets.
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.
