Jenny Lemieux, co-founder and CEO of this Toronto start-up, is conducting trials with nine apple growers to solve a common problem: crop load management. One of those farmers, Kirk Kemp, Algoma Orchards, shares his experience.
- Federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers have agreed on a new five-year partnership that injects $500 million more in new funds and increases the AgriStability compensation rate from 70 per cent to 80 per cent.
- The Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers has announced that its executive director/general manager will be retiring in February 2023 after more than five years of dedicated service. A search is underway for his replacement.
- The crop protection company plants its flag in a new head office in Calgary, Alberta to be closer to key customers in western Canada says Darren Dillenbeck, country manager for FMC Canada.
- Peak of the Market Ltd. is contributing $100,000 toward University of Manitoba chair in potato sustainability.