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Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada appoint policy lead

Aug. 11, 2025 at 10:45 am CDT

FVGC announces Erik Nielsen will step into the newly-created role of Director of Policy, Research, and Public Affairs

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

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

Aurora buys control of major B.C. hothouse veg firm

Sep. 11, 2022 at 6:18 am CDT

A major player in B.C.’s greenhouse vegetable sector is about to expand its operations into an Alberta cannabis grow facility — backed by a major investment from the plant’s owner. Aurora Cannabis on Aug. 25 announced a subsidiary is buying a 50.1 per cent stake in Bevo Agtech, the parent […]