A University of Georgia breeder and California farmers are growing proprietary blueberry varieties -- Pink Cosmo and Hunkaberry -- for Oppy.
- The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is launching a new national Kids FarmSafe Week, presented by BASF Agricultural Solutions, from May 13-19.
- Federal ag minister Lawrence MacAulay has announced $1.08 million for the Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing to develop mental health literacy education.
- BC’s 6,500 acres of cherries have a farmgate value of $200 million in a good year. But in the last five years, growers have faced an unprecedented heat dome, spring frosts, and this year, a winter freeze.
- Two project teams, among 11 selected nationwide by the Weston Family Foundation, include experts from Mucci Farms, North America’s largest grower of controlled-environment strawberries.