The question and answer period at information days is always revealing. That’s when growers signal they are keen to know more.
- Last year’s reports of Dickeya dianthicola from Maine to Michigan are this year’s concern for potato growers. What’s worrisome is that the bacteria is spread through seed potatoes causing blackleg and soft rot.
- Talk to any greenhouse cucumber grower and prices, in 2012 and 2015, were in the gutter. Prices as low as $5 for a case of a dozen medium-sized cucumbers at the Ontario Food Terminal don’t cover costs.
- The website, Ontario CropIPM, contains the full range of pest management information for many vegetable crops, including asparagus.
- There’s nothing like travel to get a fresh perspective of home. For on-farm retailing businesses, this is especially true because home and work are often the same place.