The Canadian Produce Marketing Association has named MP Kody Blois as 2023 Produce Champion. He’s MP for Kings-Hants, Nova Scotia and chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.

The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council is forging ahead with its mission to address labour shortages across all commodities.

The Ontario Craft Cider Association aims to increase production from six to 30 million litres per year by 2030.

Dennis Roth is joining the crop protection company as area business manager based in Tavistock, Ontario. Drew Thompson will become the company’s full-time technical sales agronomist, covering Ontario, Québec and Atlantic Canada.

Two of the seven 2023 inductees hail from horticulture. They are John Bragg, a dominant force in the evolution of the wild blueberry industry in the Maritimes and Robert Irving, who established Cavendish Farms in 1980, a frozen food plant in PEI…