Ontario’s ag minister Lisa Thompson made a first-ever announcement of provincial funding to Farm & Food Care Ontario. It’s a financial package of $547,200 over three years.
- Victoria Stamper of Mascouche, Québec, a community just north of Montréal, will join the United Potato Growers of Canada effective April 25, 2022. As the new general manager, she brings a commodities distribution background to the role.
- Quebec-based Savoura Group is building nine hectares of greenhouses for conventional tomato production near Sainte-Sophie. The company is partnering with another Quebec innovator, Sollum, to install one hectare of Intelligent LED lighting.
- The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada underscore the highlights of the federal budget from the potato industry to a national school food policy.
- Canada’s largest grocery retailer has come to terms with PepsiCo’s demand for higher prices for its popular Frito-Lay chips. The popular snacks have been out of stock for two months, since February 12, 2022.