An agriculture and agri-food workforce strategy relies on five pillars: automation and technology, immigration and foreign workers, skill development, perception and awareness, people and workplace culture.

Ontario’s ag minister Lisa Thompson made a first-ever announcement of provincial funding to Farm & Food Care Ontario. It’s a financial package of $547,200 over three years.

Victoria Stamper of Mascouche, Québec, a community just north of Montréal, will join the United Potato Growers of Canada effective April 25, 2022. As the new general manager, she brings a commodities distribution background to the role.

Quebec-based Savoura Group is building nine hectares of greenhouses for conventional tomato production near Sainte-Sophie. The company is partnering with another Quebec innovator, Sollum, to install one hectare of Intelligent LED lighting.

The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada underscore the highlights of the federal budget from the potato industry to a national school food policy.