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More ciders from B.C. fruit One year after B.C. Tree Fruits launched its first cider, two more varieties are being added to the mix. >> Read full article
Late blight project underway The Ontario Potato Board and Dr. Eugenia Banks are collaborating on a two-year project to evaluate late blight management technologies new to Ontario. >> Read full article
Webinar discusses new wireworm control Christine Noronha, an entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Charlottetown Research and Development Centre, has designed an environmentally green trap that could be a major breakthrough in the control of wireworms, an increasingly destructive agricultural pest across Canada. >> Read full article
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Handling blueberries with extra care Since a blueberry is mostly water, any touch has the potential to bruise it. While most human pickers are gentle enough to pick the berries without bruising them, the same cannot be said for mechanical pickers. Bruising is almost guaranteed when berries drop more than 30 cm onto a hard surface, generally the case on today’s picking machines. As more growers turn to machine picking to offset the increasing cost and decreasing availability of labour, bruising has become more of an issue. >> Learn More…
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Webinar: A new method for wireworm control Presenter: Christine Noronha Entomologist, Charlottetown Research and Development Centre Christine Noronha, an entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Charlottetown Crop and Research Centre, has designed an environmentally green trap that could be a major breakthrough in the control of wireworms, an increasingly destructive agricultural pest on Prince Edward Island and across Canada. Christine will share details about the Noronha Elaterid Light Trap (NELT) in this exclusive webinar. When: May 12, 2016 Time: 2 p.m. ADT (1 p.m. EDT) Cost: $20 >> Register Today







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