The farmgate value of greenhouse vegetable production is 36 per cent of the approximately $6 billion of Canadian horticultural produce. Currently, lettuce is a small slice of the greenhouse vegetable sector, but it’s well positioned for rapid growth…
- The Fruit & Vegetable Growers of Canada is releasing two videos of how the carbon tax is challenging greenhouse growers. One video was shot in British Columbia and the other in Québec.
- The Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers reported a record farmgate value of $162 million in 2023, producing nine crops for canning, freezing and pickling.
- University of Waterloo researchers are inviting growers to participate in a survey of damage by sandhill cranes to local crops
- The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network has named Vivid Machines to lead a project on data-driven dormant apple tree pruning and tree vigour models.