After years of lobbying the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Potato Congress has announced success for an International Potato Day. The first one will be held May 30, 2024.
- Here’s a timely reminder that Cleanfarms Ontario is offering free disposal of unwanted pesticides. Look to your nearest retailer for pickup dates and times.
- Stephanie Vickers will be coordinating projects to assess the applicability of new practices, products, and technologies that address sustainability issues in Ontario’s horticulture sectors including labour uncertainties, nutrient inputs/outputs,…
- Genome BC has announced a two-year project to research why 18 per cent of blueberry plant samples tested in 2020 were negative for both blueberry scorch virus and blueberry shock virus.
- The branding of greenhouse vegetables – and fruits – has reached such sophistication that a kitchen was built inside the new marketing quarters of Pure Hothouse Foods’ sprawling greenhouse at Leamington, Ontario. Chris Veillon, chief marketing…