Peach season started in earnest with hot temperatures in mid-July, boosting brix and putting stress on growers to get the crop picked, cooled and packed.
- Retail Navigator columnist Peter Chapman says that producers and processors invest too much developing and growing products before they really think about who will buy them or why a retailer would want them in the store. Peeled, frozen garlic is one…
- Efforts to align Canadian retailers, food, health and consumer goods manufacturing companies and farmers are stymied on key issues as to what sorts of products and dealings should be covered by a code and payments, deductions, fines and fees.
- Chip stock potato growers Morgan and Karissa Smallman are this year’s winners from Knutsford, Prince Edward Island.
- The art of crop load management in orchards is about to become more automated thanks to Jenny Lemieux, co-founder and CEO of Vivid Machines. She huddles with Kirk Kemp, owner of Algoma Orchards, Newcastle, Ontario on advancements in sensors and…