VQH Farms, a perennial competitor, took first place this year with Great Lakes Brewery for the Imperial (double) IPA’ style of craft beer. The annual competition was hosted at the 2020 Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention.

Congrats to all apple growers in the 2020 Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Convention cider competition held February 19. Winners were announced for sweet cider, specialty cider and common cider.

The state of Integrated Pest Management keeps evolving with new equipment and techniques for identifying diseases and pests.

Grape grower Bill George Jr. will serve a second one-year term. He and his wife Lesliann grow 160 acres of wine grapes in the Niagara region.

The Timorex biofungicide label has been expanded for control of Botrytis grey mold and powdery mildew on hops, greenhouse vegetables and strawberries in Canada.

Choices for weed control in strawberries have expanded with new label for Ignite SN herbicide.

Oliver cherry grower Pinder Dhaliwal will continue as president of the 400-member strong BC Fruit Growers’ Association.The annual general meeting was held February 11-12 in Kelowna.

The sun sets on an organophosphate insecticide used since 1966. Corteva has announced a phase-out of chlorpyrifos by end of 2020 due to declining sales.

The Yoom tomato bred by Syngenta Seeds has been voted the 2020 Innovation of the Year by fair goers to the Fruit Logistica trade show in Berlin.

Hussam Haroun has joined Vineland Research and Innovation Centre as director of automation, overseeing artificial intelligence and digital agriculture technologies.