Horticulture readies for a risk management plan
Information meetings for Ontario growers start at the end of August
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Retailer pushes hort growers to join food safety program
Farms must be certified under CanadaGAP by 2012
Spud packer moves
A new facility for this potato packer and distributor will cost $5.5 million
Grant could help ailing bee populations
Ontario beekeepers lost a record 43 per cent of their colonies last winter
Consult farmers about virus management: tender fruit growers’ chair
The federal government decided how to handle a problematic stone fruit virus without first discussing the approach with growers says the spokesman for the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board
Province keeps an eye out for late blight strains
Unchecked and in ideal conditions, the fungus-like pathogen can wipe out a crop in seven to eight days
Greenhouse growers excluded from power generation program
The organization representing Ontario’s greenhouse growers says greenhouses should have been included in a provincial program to support combined heat and power generation projects
Ontario’s strawberry crop looks promising
Wet weather has delayed the harvest but the province’s strawberry season should be in full swing within the next few days
Our products are safe say greenhouse vegetable growers
Ontario’s industry reassures consumers following a deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe
Asparagus crop woes
‘We’ve had asparagus being dumped and we’ve had asparagus being sold for way under price,’ says the chair of the Ontario Asparagus Growers’ Marketing Board
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