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.
- The Prince Edward Island Potato Stabilization and Innovation Initiative will invest in modernization and product diversification for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years. It’s part of the federal government’s response to the ongoing market disruption…