A donation of $25,000 from the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association will help reduce food waste and feed hungry families.
- Eight Ontario strawberry farms will be showcasing their technology and techniques to the continent’s most enthusiastic berry growers on August 16 and 17.
- Dutch company Blue Radix is trialling Crop Controller, a system to automate many management tasks in three Ontario greenhouses. The project is supported by the Greenhouse Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative.
- The federal carbon tax has gone up 11 cents/litre for gasoline and diesel. Yet tillage work must continue. This 12-foot wide cultivator, for example, is used in one pass to bury the leftover ‘fruit mummies.’ Used in every other row, the practice…
- Ontario government funding will support promotional activities this summer to boost local consumption of apples, peaches, pears, nectarines, plums, apricots, and tart red cherries.