In 2024, the first International Day of Potato will be celebrated under the timely theme: Harvesting diversity, feeding hope.
- Farm Credit Canada is offering flexible terms on a case-by-case basis to growers affected by the January cold weather event. Wine grapes were the most severely injured with no 2024 vintage expected.
- Sekoya is a B2B-branded platform designed to deliver tasty, crunchy, long-lasting blueberries, 52 weeks per year, with 15 members globally. Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario is now one of those 15 members.
- Information meetings will be held March 11-13 in Oliver, Cawston, Kelowna, and Vernon to discuss the potential for improving financial returns through a BC Apple Marketing Commission.
- The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada has concluded its 102nd annual general meeting in Ottawa with the election of new president Marcus Janzen. He’s a greenhouse pepper grower near Abbotsford, British Columbia.