For Ontario’s Holland Marsh growers, nothing is easy about the layers of provincial environmental

Bruce Kelly of Farm & Food Care Ontario wrote an article for The Grower about getting wet while helping evaluate how evenly an irrigation system applied water to a vegetable field.

Water quantity is a hot topic these days.

Canada’s horticultural industry was set on its heels earlier this winter when the Pest Management

Here is some additional information to supplement the March 2016 article of Tracy Shinners-Carnel

New figures released by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) illustrate the i

Dickeya dianthicola, the new blackleg pathogen has the ability to remain dormant in tubers when temperatures are low e.g. at harvest time and in seed storages. Infected tubers look healthy at planting, but the disease develops when soil temperature increases.

Aware of the trend to marketing second-grade or ugly produce, BC Fresh Vegetables (dba BCfresh)

To date, the genome of the potato has not been sequenced because it’s so complex genetically.

Eggplant, a member of the nightshade family, is coming into the sun. This oft-ignored vegetable is becoming more visible in produce aisles as Canada’s South Asian immigrants demand the tastes of their childhoods.