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Alberta halts B.C. wine purchases in pipeline feud

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 6, 2018

Reuters — Alberta struck back at neighbouring British Columbia on Tuesday, halting purchases of that province’s wines in retaliation for its potentially holding up expansion of a crude pipeline. B.C. proposed rules last week to temporarily block increased oil shipments through the province, adding another hurdle to Kinder Morgan Canada’s planned $7.4 billion Trans Mountain […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ontario processing vegetable contract compromise reached

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

The Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers marketing board believes it has found a compromise to an imposed regulation that would have gutted grower contract protection. Why it matters: Farmers had contract security of two years previously, but new regulations would have taken that down to none — and processors could have dropped growers whenever they wished. […] Read more

Jim Clark, chair of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission. (John Greig photo)

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ontario’s processing vegetable growers in new regulatory reality

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

The only way is forward. That’s what Ontario’s processing vegetable growers heard at their annual meeting from the chair of the group that regulates farm marketing in the province. That doesn’t mean some farmers didn’t still question the province’s move to fire the board of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers (OPVG) and its staff in […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ocean Spray to buy Quebec cranberry processor

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 5, 2018

Quebec cranberry processor Atoka Cranberries is set to become an arm of the U.S.-based cranberry grower co-op Ocean Spray. Massachussetts-based Ocean Spray on Friday announced it would buy the Atoka processing plant at Manseau, Que., about 70 km east of Trois-Rivieres, along with the Atoka brand from berry producer Canneberges Bieler. Financial terms of the […] Read more

Crops, Potatoes, Reuters

At least two killed in potato farmer protests in Peru

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 1, 2018

Lima | Reuters — At least two people have been killed in clashes at protests by potato farmers across the Peruvian Andes, police said on Thursday, as demonstrators demanded the government make good on promises to buy excess potatoes after a sharp price drop. Thousands of farmers took part in the protests on Wednesday and […] Read more

Campbell Soup Co. plans to close its 87-year-old Toronto soup plant by mid-2019. (Campbell Soup Co. via BusinessWire)

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Campbell to shut Toronto soup, broth plant

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 29, 2018

Campbell Soup Co. will call a halt to all Canadian soup and broth production by mid-2019 when it closes the doors on its Toronto manufacturing plant. The Camden, N.J. company’s Canadian arm announced Wednesday it will close the plant in phases over a period of up to 18 months and move its production to three […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Grapes, Reuters

Australia takes Canada to WTO over wine rules

By GFM Network News January 16, 2018

Geneva | Reuters — Australia has complained at the World Trade Organization about Canada’s rules on wine sales, expanding a similar U.S. complaint against one province. In October, Washington accused British Columbia of providing an unfair advantage to local vineyards by giving their wine an exclusive retail channel in grocery store shelves and cutting out […] Read more

Field Roast’s plant-based FieldBurger is made using assorted vegetables, mushrooms and barley. (FieldRoast.com)

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Pulses

Maple Leaf buys further into ‘meat’ market

By GFM Network News December 7, 2017

One of Canada’s biggest packaged meat companies is further expanding its space on the non-animal protein shelf with a deal for U.S. processor Field Roast Grain Meat. Maple Leaf Foods announced Nov. 30 it will pay US$120 million (C$153.9 million) for the Seattle-based company, which makes and markets premium grain-based “meat” and vegan cheese products. […] Read more

Dusty Zamecnik hopes to lead Canadian greenhouse operators into winter strawberry production.

Features, Fruit/Vegetables

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Dusty Zamecnik puts heart into diversified berries and beer operation

By Lee Hart December 1, 2017

Getting and keeping Canadian greenhouse operators into the winter strawberry production business is a passion for Ontario farmer Dusty Zamecnik. And he’s not just focused on Canadian berry production — that’s already gaining some ground in Ontario, and B.C. with a small start in Alberta. But, some of the 16 million strawberry plants he produces […] Read more

Vegetable producers Francois Handfield and Veronique Bouchard with their children: Philomène, eight, and Éméric, 10.

Crops, Features, Fruit/Vegetables

Canada’s OYF: Quebec nominees

Francois Handfield and Veronique Bouchard embrace organic farming 

By Lee Hart November 27, 2017

They were two non-farmers who started out with $500, a wheelbarrow and a dream. Less than 10 years later, Francois Handfield and Veronique Bouchard have a thriving organic market garden, community shared agriculture business supplying produce to about 4,000 people, they employ up to 20 seasonal workers, and gross about $800,000 annually. A lot of […] Read more

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U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Fruit/Vegetables

Alberta halts B.C. wine purchases in pipeline feud

Ontario processing vegetable contract compromise reached

Ontario’s processing vegetable growers in new regulatory reality

Ocean Spray to buy Quebec cranberry processor

At least two killed in potato farmer protests in Peru

Campbell to shut Toronto soup, broth plant

Australia takes Canada to WTO over wine rules

Maple Leaf buys further into ‘meat’ market

Canada’s OYF: Nominees from Ontario

Canada’s OYF: Quebec nominees

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