A new study shows that Brock University’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI)

Ontario growers face an ever more burdensome regulatory environment which is particularly onerous for smaller operations. Some of the additional concerns for 2016 and future years are in the following chart

Horticulture is labour-intensive.

Because the Ontario Agricultural Commodity Council (OACC) meeting was rescheduled until December 14, I do not have the most recent statistics from Agricorp on Crop Insurance and AgriStability so what was reported in November is still the most current.

Millennials grow cooperatively to compete globally. Information is liquid. That’s how Brian Rideout describes this age of information overload, cascading from multiple sources. He’s one of about 20 young Ontario apple farmers, mostly millennials, who share experiences in a loosely structured group.