Westmoreland Topline Farms is launching a plastic-free cucumber with a major Canadian retailer in June 2022. The edible coating, made by Apeel, is the breakthrough.
Greenhouse grower Jan VanderHout believes that growers have a role to play in emissions reduction and climate change mitigation where possible. However, he says there is a real need to balance the global move to net-zero emissions with the realities…
Owen Roberts opines that consumers express trust in farmers, even when they don’t know any, because of farmers’ traditional values, not necessarily their modern methods of production.
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec will be the site of an Agriculture Canada and Agri-Food test pilot, using exclusion netting, narrow fruiting walls and mechanized operations in apples.
With a nationwide crop input shortage impacting producers, ADAMA Canada has secured additional MCPA to fulfill its market obligations for the 2022 crop year.
