Insights and Stories on Vegetables

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 […]

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

By Mubasher Bukhari

Italian court upholds veto against Syngenta purchase of seed producer

Apr. 13, 2022 at 7:36 pm CDT

By Reuters

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

Feb. 8, 2022 at 4:05 pm 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

Federal reprieve for imidacloprid cuts its application rates

May. 19, 2021 at 5:07 pm CDT

A member of the neonicotinoid family of insesticides and seed treatments has been pulled back from the brink of an all-out ban in Health Canada’s final re-evaluation ruling. Most agricultural uses of imidacloprid — sold by Bayer under brands such as Gaucho, Merit and Admire, and by Adama under brands […]

By Dave Bedard

Health Canada steps back from bans on two neonics

Mar. 31, 2021 at 7:51 pm CDT

A federal proposal to protect aquatic insect habitat by cancelling all registered outdoor uses for two popular ag insecticides has been walked back in a major way. Health Canada on Wednesday announced its special review decisions on the risks to aquatic bug life from the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, […]

By Dave Bedard

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

High food prices hurting India’s poor

Nov. 15, 2020 at 5:46 pm CST

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s retail inflation may stay elevated for at least three more months after hitting a six-year high in October, as excess rain has damaged standing crops and seedlings, while edible oils that the country imports have become expensive. The high prices are a particular cause […]

By Aftab Ahmed rajendra-jadhav

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