Insights and Stories on Fruit

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

May. 30, 2022 at 5:48 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters –– Food safety regulators in both Canada and the U.S. are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in […]

Prizes put up to develop year-round berry production in Canada

Feb. 8, 2022 at 4:05 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Smoothie cubes pulled for raw elderberry use

Jan. 22, 2022 at 2:24 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Canada resists pressure to drop vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers

Jan. 10, 2022 at 1:16 pm CST

By Steve Scherer

U.S. trade body rules blueberry imports do not harm industry

Feb. 11, 2021 at 8:04 pm CST

By Reuters

Ontario extends lost-labour production insurance

Jan. 5, 2021 at 5:08 am CST

A temporary expansion of Ontario’s AgriInsurance program, to cover losses caused by COVID-19-related short-handedness on the farm, will be held over. The province and federal government on Dec. 22 announced the expansion of coverage will be extended to cover the 2021 program year — and that it will insure production […]

By Dave Bedard

Peru farm protests grip country, turn deadly

Dec. 3, 2020 at 4:19 pm CST

Lima | Reuters — Protests by farm workers demanding better wages in Peru raged on for a fourth day Thursday, spreading north into key agricultural areas of the Andean nation, derailing harvests of some crops, snarling transport of produce and leaving at least one dead. Peruvian interim President Francisco Sagasti […]

By Maria Cervantes

Feds line up projects for surplus food program

Aug. 14, 2020 at 1:22 am CDT

The federal government has lined up eight projects to source and distribute perishable produce, meat, eggs and seafood piling up across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the federal pandemic response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in early May that Ottawa would budget $50 million for a […]

By Dave Bedard

Newfoundland farmers may shoot problem moose at night

Jul. 9, 2020 at 6:21 pm CDT

Moose causing crop damage on farms in Newfoundland and Labrador may now be shot by farmers at night under a new special permit system. Farmers dealing with “problem moose” can now apply for permits for night shooting, via provincial agriculture development officers in their areas, the provincial fisheries and land […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario extends fruit, forage insurance premium deadlines

May. 7, 2020 at 1:16 am CDT

Ontario fruit and forage growers who have production insurance premiums due this month will now have until June 30 to pay, the province said Monday. The extended premium payment deadline applies only to production insurance plans for fruit, strawberries and asparagus — and to the forage rainfall insurance plan, which […]

By Dave Bedard

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