The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will be collecting leafy green samples from mid-September through October 2022. Multi-disciplinary experts will be looking at the sanitary design of harvest equipment and how field production and processing…
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s survey is open until September 28, 2022.
- The California Department of Food and Agriculture reports that farmers produced $51.1 billion of agricultural products in 2021. That’s up 3.6 per cent from the previous year. The statistic is a significant achievement in the face of record-breaking…
- The Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers have identified that thousands of tonnes of organic waste, specifically unmarketable tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers, as well as plant trimmings, can be diverted from local landfills and used as a growing…
- A big purple tomato promises to fight cancer and heart disease. The product of gene editing by Norfolk Plant Sciences in the U.K., it’s now been green-lighted by the United States Department of Agriculture, allowing seeds to be planted in 2023.