Thanks to the Minor Use Program, the Exirel insecticide label has been expanded to help manage Japanese beetle and black vine weevil in strawberries and cranberry weevil in cranberries.

Centurion and Select herbicides can how help manage labelled weeds in celery, celeriac and Chinese cabbage, thanks to registration by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.

Tarnished plant bug can now be managed in field lettuce, thanks to a label extension for UP-Cyde by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.

Canada’s food safety program is governed by not-for-profit CanAgPlus. Nominations are open until August 31 for four directors for a two-year term.

Since 1952, the Komienski family has been trucking produce to market at the Ontario Food Terminal. As Tom Komienski explains to operations manager Gary DaSilva, the fourth generation is now managing more than a thousand acres near Scotland, Ontario.