Dan Duguay, CPMA sustainability specialist, has noted that Europe is moving towards a certified compostable PLU by 2028 and that it’s opportune to make the European standard a global standard.
- Pascal Forest, president of the Producteurs de légumes de transformation du Québec, shares how climate change and global competition are challenging growers of processing vegetables in Ontario and Québec.
- Matt Aronson, Verdant Technologies and Tom Pierce, Sobeys, discuss how to use 1-MCP, an ethylene inhibitor, to keep broccoli fresh from field to fork.
- Cumulative catastrophic weather events over the last four years have left many Okanagan fruit growers with little to no fruit to sell in the summer of 2024.
- Amanda Doughty, human resource manager at Sandy Shore Farms, shares how the two-month asparagus season is intense, but she and her team, including a Spanish-speaking Guatemalan HR assistant, do everything possible to smooth communications and…