Crop protection columnist Chris Duyvelshoff updates the work of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, highlighting one new product of interest to tender fruit orchardists.
Mike Chromczak, chair, safety nets section, Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers’ Association, urges proper funding of the Self-Directed Risk Management program.
This registration is to help control Colorado potato beetle on field-grown eggplant and field tomatoes in Canada.
A dreaded community disease, late blight has been detected by spore trap in tomato fields in Ontario’s Elgin and Essex counties as of July 21, 2023. Symptoms have been reported on potato in Simcoe County.
Ontario growers fill a niche for U.S. pickle processors that’s valued at $16 million annually. Dan Froese supervises one of three Hartung Brothers’ receiving stations in Ontario near Vienna.
