Insights and Stories on Vegetables

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Canada’s first AI-driven greenhouse doubles down on sustainable farming

Aug. 22, 2025 at 9:40 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Haven Greens, Canada’s first fully automated AI-powered greenhouse, tackles food security, sovereignty, sustainability and Canada’s over-reliance on United States produce. Jay Willmot, founder and CEO of Haven Greens, said the United States’ tariff war boosted local demand that Canada’s domestic supply was unable to meet, helping the […]

Person standing in a field holding a box of vegetables.

Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada appoint policy lead

Aug. 11, 2025 at 10:45 am CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Agricultural potato harvest. Photo: U.J. Alexander/Getty Images Plus

Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed – and a tomato was involved

Aug. 1, 2025 at 12:26 pm CDT

By Reuters Will Dunham

Mario Segovia and Orlando Rojas, members of the Atacama fog catcher group, check a hydroponic lettuce crop produced with water captured by fog catchers, meshes suspended between two poles that intercept small bits of moisture to collect water from the air in the Atacama Desert, in Chanaral, Chile June 10, 2025.

In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog

Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:14 am CDT

By Reuters Rodrigo Gutierrez

Expanding greenhouse sector means more home-grown veggies

May. 29, 2025 at 12:11 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

At Agribition: Northern community integrates tech, education into market garden

Nov. 23, 2023 at 2:45 pm CST

Riverside Market Garden, operated by Flying Dust First Nation, started in 2009 with two people and an old alfalfa field. Today it employs about 20 people, plus summer students; provides food for the community and some wholesalers; and gives youth a chance to learn about agriculture. Over the years the […]

By Lisa Guenther

Smucker to shed Bick’s brand

Nov. 9, 2023 at 7:22 am CST

U.S. food firm J.M. Smucker has a deal in place to sell off the Canadian pickle brand Bick’s and a portfolio of condiment brands it makes for the Canadian market. Ohio-based Smucker announced Oct. 17 it will sell the Bick’s brand plus the Habitant pickled beets, Woodman’s horseradish and McLarens […]

By Dave Bedard

Robots may help grain farmers diversify

Oct. 26, 2023 at 7:02 pm CDT

Chuck Baresich, who owns an agricultural robotics business in Ontario, says controlling weeds with robots is probably best suited for high-value, horticultural crops in Canada. However, large-scale grain farmers could also use the technology if they think about it differently. “Let’s say my brother and me are growing 1,500 acres […]

By Robert Arnason

Plant-based foods firm buying into organic juice market

May. 25, 2023 at 11:40 am CDT

A Vancouver company dialing up its presence in Canada’s plant-based foods market is set to buy its way into the organic juice business. Pangea Natural Foods recently announced plans to buy another Vancouver firm, fruit and vegetable juice processor Glory Juice, in a share exchange deal. Glory Juice operates three […]

By OrganicBiz

Limagrain offers to buy out seed maker Vilmorin

Apr. 30, 2023 at 1:51 am CDT

Paris | Reuters — French agricultural co-operative Limagrain has offered to buy the 28.78 per cent of Vilmorin it does not already own in a deal that values one of the world’s biggest seed suppliers at 1.43 billion euros (C$2.13 billion). Limagrain said on Friday it was offering 62.60 euros […]

By Reuters

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