The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity is promoting Canada Ag Day on February 13. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the food supply chain.
- Ontario producers and processors can apply to a program that underwrites new equipment and processes.
- The Ontario Produce Marketing Association is offering turn-key, pop-up farmers’ market events that trial new or existing products to the public at a fraction of the cost of in-store sampling.
- Both public and private investment in the agri-food chain is falling according to new report by University of Manitoba author Jared Carlberg.
- Tracy Shinners-Carnelley, Peak of the Market, Winnipeg, has been elected to chair the Potato Sustainability Alliance. The group has representatives from the entire potato chain.