Naturipe Farms relies on Jalisco, Mexico greenhouses for strawberries, expected to quadruple in volume in the 2024-2025 season.
- Kate Helmore, currently based in Vancouver, has been tapped for the newly created beat of agriculture and food policy reporter. One of her first stories was titled: “Canadian fresh-produce growers get more financial protection under amended…
- Apple breeder Kate Evans has announced that numbered variety WA 64 is now officially Sunflare. It’s the third release of an apple in the breeding program, after Sunrise Magic in 2011and Cosmic Crisp in 2019.
- Koppert is working with a French-based company which specializes in an amoeba lysate-based biofungicide.
- The Canadian horticultural sector is excited that the Private Member’s Bill of Scot Davidson, then sponsored in the Senate by the Honourable Michael MacDonald, was passed by the Senate on Dec 10, 2024 amending the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.