Insights and Stories on Vegetables

Sep. 9, 2016 at 10:51 am CDT

Allison Fenske pulls a reluctant grey cat off her dining room table to make room for her jars of homemade pea-shoot pesto, pickled beets and spicy slices of jicama turnip.  She points to the turnips. “Jonathan says he always tells people you can eat them the way you’d eat an […]

By Shannon VanRaes

Sep. 9, 2016 at 10:01 am CDT

By OrganicBiz staff Canada’s biggest producer of mushrooms has expanded its reach into Western Canada with the purchase of one of the region’s biggest producers. Highline Produce announced Thursday it has bought Langley, B.C.-based organic mushroom producer All Seasons Mushrooms. According to Irish tropical fruit marketing giant Fyffes, which has […]

By OrganicBiz

Feb. 26, 2016 at 5:30 pm CST

Reuters — Canadian farmers are cashing in on the highest vegetable prices in years, helped by the country’s weak currency and soaring costs of U.S. imports that have made them unexpected winners in a bearish commodity world. Soft wheat and canola prices may diminish Canadian farm incomes by nine per […]

By Nia Williams, Rod Nickel

Dec. 22, 2014 at 3:00 pm CST

Reuters — More than half of food tested by the U.S. government for pesticide residues last year showed detectable levels of pesticides, though most were within levels the government considers to be safe, according to a report issued Dec. 19 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA looked at […]

By Carey Gillam

Oct. 23, 2014 at 7:04 pm CDT

Kiev | Reuters –– Ukraine has complained to the World Trade Organization (WTO) about a decision by Russia to ban imports of fruit and vegetables from the country, the agriculture ministry said Thursday. The ban, which came into force Wednesday, was the latest trade barrier erected by Russia in a […]