Canada’s ag minister Marie-Claude Bibeau spent March 26 and 27 visiting Prince Edward Island potato farmers in Crapaud, Victoria, Wellington and O’Leary. Two days earlier, the government announced that the U.S. will soon resume imports of PEI table…

The federal government is making almost $850,000 available to the Ontario Ginseng Growers’ Association through the AgriMarketing program to develop new markets.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced on March 24 that PEI growers can resume exports of tablestock potatoes to the United States. Additional conditions are to be published.

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association will welcome 18 men and women, all of them rising stars to the Annual Convention and Trade Show in Montreal, April 5-7.

A cheque for $50,000 has been presented by Peter Loewen, chair, of Peak of the Market to Sue Clayton, executive director, Agriculture in the Classroom – Manitoba.