McDonald’s Canada and McCain Foods are partnering to encourage potato growers to improve soil health through regenerative farming practices. Applications open in August 2022 to 130 growers who farm 76,000 acres of potatoes.
Sales of U.S harvesters and heavy-duty tractors gained in July 2022. However, year-to-date farm tractor unit sales are down 8.3 per cent in Canada, while harvesters are down 22.1 per cent, reversing the previous month’s improvement.
It’s taken seven years, but finally the Canadian government has won access for BC cherries to enter South Korea. The timing is excellent for a pilot test for the 2022 harvest now underway.
MP Scot Davidson (York-Simcoe) was honoured as the 2022 Produce Champion at an event at Gwillimdale Farms, Bradford, Ontario.
Dr. Debbie Inglis, director of Brock University’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute, was recently recognized with the Wine Industry Champion Award. She’s an academic leader with broad connections from vineyard to government to industry.
