The Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers acknowledge the collaborative efforts with the municipality of Leamington on a by-law to govern supplemental lighting.

While a cool spring is delaying the start of the 2022 cherry harvest in British Columbia, growers are forecasting a smaller crop, but bigger fruit size. They are expecting a July 10 start date with the Lapin variety hitting its stride in late July.

Three demonstrations of AgRobotics will be hosted at Dresden, Kettleby and Bothwell in late June and early July 2022. No registration is required says organizer Kristen Obeid, OMAFRA weed management specialist for horticulture.

Four new members join the board of directors for the Ontario Produce Marketing Association. They are: Michael Miranda, Farm Boy; Ariel Nevado, Metro Inc.; Dustin Wellman, Wonderful Sales and Agnes Boutros, Mastronardi Produce Ltd.

Organifarms wins the Concept Award for BERRY, its harvesting robot for greenhouse-grown strawberries and Biobest wins the Innovation Award for its Micromus-System, a generalist predator for protected crops in the 2022 GreenTech Innovation Awards in…