Shawn Brenn, potato grower, lists the opportunities but also the risks for niche produce markets.
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.
