Statistics Canada reports that 2021 greenhouse sales grew for the ninth consecutive year to a total of $2 billion. That’s up 9.3 per cent from the previous year.

A donation of $25,000 from the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association will help reduce food waste and feed hungry families.

Eight Ontario strawberry farms will be showcasing their technology and techniques to the continent’s most enthusiastic berry growers on August 16 and 17.

Dutch company Blue Radix is trialling Crop Controller, a system to automate many management tasks in three Ontario greenhouses. The project is supported by the Greenhouse Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative.

The federal carbon tax has gone up 11 cents/litre for gasoline and diesel. Yet tillage work must continue. This 12-foot wide cultivator, for example, is used in one pass to bury the leftover ‘fruit mummies.’ Used in every other row, the practice…