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The Emergency Use Registration is to help manage cabbage maggot in rutabaga grown in eight provinces. Note that each insecticide has a specific time period that’s permitted for use.
The Pesticides Regulatory Directorate has expanded the label for Serifel biological fungicide.
The Pesticides Regulatory Directorate has expanded the Pyganic insecticide label to help control various pests such as onion thrips, leafhoppers and climbing cutworms.
The Pyganic insecticide label has been temporarily expanded for emergency use registration. The request marks the first agricultural related EUR request to be granted a multi-year term on the grounds of preventing the establishment of a new invasive species.
Ontario’s Kevin Watson is the new chair, supported by British Columbia’s Mike Watson as vice-chair.
The Standing Committee for Agriculture and Agri-Food now comprises seven Liberals, four Conservatives and one Bloc Québécois MP.
Michael Harvey, executive director of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, will be on the committee advising Minister Dominic LeBlanc ahead of the 2026 CUSMA joint review.
Michi Furuya Chang joins the board of the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity after its 2026 annual general assembly pledging to build public trust in Canada’s food system.
For the first time, $20 million will be set aside to fund research and development into mechanization and automation technologies for the specialty cr…
Exporter members are Canadians Sunny Brar with Humraj Kallu named the alternate.
Five working groups will provide focus to specific topics. They include: International Potato Research Collaborative Framework (IPRCF), Potato Aeropon…
In 2026, the board allocated $321,035 in funding for 12 projects that focus on topics such as bloom consistency, disease and pest prevention, and appl…
Robert Shuh, elected president of the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (FARMS) a year ago, reflects on the 60th anniversary of the…
Some southwestern Ontario greenhouse operators dimmed their state-of-the-art LED lights in winter 2026 because they couldn’t afford hydro that…
As Canada pursues greater food self-sufficiency, water will be key. Manitoba and Saskatchewan growers share their strategies for water management.
While AI and machine learning are the flavour of the hour, it’s still the case that Canadian horticulture employs about 70,000 temporary foreign…
The president and CEO of Catania Worldwide will be honoured for his significant contributions to Canada’s fresh produce industry on April 30.
Based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Anodyne Chemistries Inc. is developing an innovative bio-electric process that converts carbon dioxide and water…
Field-ready technologies will be spotlighted at the March 26 event in London, Ontario.
The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network has announced funding to CropVue Technologies based in Surrey, BC. It is partnering with…
The Grower’s columnist Owen Roberts comments on Health Canada’s consultation on using drones for pest control products already registered for aerial application.
There are plenty of Canadian-made products and beverages that can fill domestic shelves and appeal to global markets writes Retail Navigator columnist Peter Chapman.
OFVGA’s crop protection advisor Chris Duyvelshoff makes the case for investing in the minor use program. From 2020-2024, the horticultural industry estimates the minor use program helped to prevent $1.6 billion in annual crop losses, contributed an additional $1.6 billion in GDP to the economy and supported more than 12,000 jobs.
Shawn Brenn, chair of OFVGA and Alison Robertson, executive director of OFVGA team up for an executive summary of the past year’s activities.
Crop protection columnist Josh Mosiondz provides a valuable roundup of the URMULE registrations to date and some of the projects underway for 2026.
