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The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is hosting its virtual conference on October 20 and 21. The agenda will focus on changing behaviours, emergency preparedness and culture change.
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is partnering with others to develop a national workforce strategy for agriculture and food and beverage manufacturing.
Farm Credit Canada is evolving its Drive Away Hunger campaign to provide even more food for Canadians by engaging the larger agriculture and food community in raising food and cash donations.
Québec is hosting a first-ever Haskap Symposium on October 20 and 27.
British Columbia’s Raspberry Replant Program, started a year ago, will receive fresh funds of $300,000 to encourage growers to plant varieties suitable for fresh and individually-quick-frozen markets.
Research is driving innovation in Alberta’s greenhouse sector, boosted by a $783,000 grant to optimize growing conditions for pre-commercial and commercial-scale production of strawberries and tomatoes-on-the-vine.
Polling data shows that Canadians, across all age groups, are interested in ordering food produced by local farmers or in Canada, when they return to restaurants.
The association is pleased that the provincial government is extending the Apple Orchard Modernization Program for a year. Maximum assistance is $50,000 per company for the duration of the program.
Scotlynn Sweet-Pac Growers and its CEO Scott Biddle have been charged with 27 offences under the Occupational Health and Safety Act relating to management of farm workers during the pandemic. The operation is based at Vittoria, Ontario.
A new look is unveiled to portray growth, innovation and sustainability for one of the largest independent greenhouse produce growers in North America.
Vestaron Corporation has named Plant Products, Leamington, Ontario to be exclusive distributor for the Canadian greenhouse market. The first product will be Spear-T biopesticide.
Canadian distributor, Cohort Wholesale, is supporting Vestaron in commercializing the innovative insecticide for fruit and vegetable crops.
BASF Canada has received registration for a fungicide with new active ingredient Revysol for broad spectrum control against foliar diseases such as early blight, black dot and brown spot in potatoes. It will be available for the 2022 growing season.
Cohort Wholesale will provide technical, sales, warehousing and logistical support for UPL products. The agreement is effective September 1, 2021.
Alberta MP John Barlow is back in the saddle as the shadow minister for agriculture, agri-food and food security.
One of the six scholars named to a $15,000 Nuffield Canada scholarship is Mark Phillips, marketing specialist for the Prince Edward Island Potato Board. He intends to research public trust issues.
Global crop protection company Corteva has named Canadian Chuck Magro as the next CEO, effective November 1, 2021.
The Québec-based and bilingual Marie-Claude Bibeau was the first female to be appointed agriculture minister in March 2019. Her two-year tenure has earned her a renewed posting to the complex portfolio in the next Liberal government.
A smart scanning system is in development to detect fruit size, colour and possible defects for the Ontario apple and tender fruit industries. The goal is to have more consistent, higher-quality fruit and less reliance on manual processes.
Koppert Biological Systems has expanded its Horiver sticky trap range with four new traps for monitoring and trapping pests such as leaf miners, whiteflies, thrips and other harmful insects in a wide variety of crops.
Biobest, active in biocontrol and pollination, is deepening its relationship with ecoation, a pioneer in robotics and artificial intelligence technologies for horticulture.
Based in the Netherlands, Certhon and its Japanese partner DENSO, are launching the Certhon Harvest Robot. This multifunctional robot can detect, cut and transport greenhouse-grown tomatoes to boxes without human help.
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