Insights and Stories on Crops

Jun. 22, 2010 at 1:02 pm CDT

Claims from Ontario’s growers of greenhouse bell peppers that competitors from the Netherlands are dumping product in Canada have led to a steep new duty on the Dutch peppers. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on Monday announced a “preliminary determination of dumping” of greenhouse bell peppers originating in or […]

Jun. 22, 2010 at 12:09 pm CDT

A well-known John Deere ag equipment dealership in southeastern Manitoba will become the eighth link of a Deere dealer chain covering the province’s south. Enns Bros., a Deere dealer headquartered southwest of Winnipeg, on Tuesday announced an agreement to merge Deer Country Equipment of Steinbach into its own operations, effective […]

Jun. 22, 2010 at 10:38 am CDT

New research on tourists visiting Prince Edward Island suggests farmers’ markets and restaurants specializing in local foods would do well to direct marketing efforts specifically toward “foodies.” The Tourism Research Centre at the School of Business at the University of P.E.I. on Monday released research showing the four most popular […]

Jun. 21, 2010 at 8:36 pm CDT

Maple syrup producers in New Brunswick will get a raise this year in the provincial funding available for thinning and spacing work on sugar bush stands. The province’s natural resources department on Monday pledged $350,000 this year for removal of unhealthy trees, which allows sugar bush stands to grow more […]

Jun. 21, 2010 at 7:00 pm CDT

Freezing and packaging capacity have officially been added to the Atlantic Mist Cranberries facility in eastern New Brunswick, with a federal loan and provincial funds to assist. The company on Monday officially opened its expanded plant at Richibucto-Village, about 80 km north of Moncton, and displayed its new packaging equipment […]