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It's our annual review of the top stories of the year as we bid goodbye to 2024. As for 2025, I wish each of you a happy, healthy New Year!
- Alex Barnard, editor
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Stone fruit growers in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley are preparing for an exceptionally lean year due to warmer-than-normal conditions in early winter, followed by a harsh cold snap in January.
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Michigan State University's Julianna Wilson is developing a yeast-based biopesticide that targets spotted wing drosophila, an invasive pest of berries and tree fruits.
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According to FCC, with the availability of farmland for sale remaining tight, average farmland values increased 11.5 per cent in 2023, down from the 12.8 per cent in 2022.
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Every year, employees in the agriculture sector produce much of the fresh food consumed by Canadians. So, what do we know about the employees who work in the country’s agricultural operations?
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A recent report from Farm Credit Canada found Canada is relying slightly less on imported fruits and vegetables, although there is still a somewhat prevalent reliance on imports.
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Plant Empowerment: The Basic Principles details how an integrated approach based on physics and plant physiology leads to a balanced growing method for protected crops resulting in healthy resilient plants, high yield and quality, low energy costs and economic greenhouse concepts.
Plant Empowerment is a new approach to growing crops in greenhouses, also known as “Next Generation Growing”.
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The impending arrival of the spotted lanternfly in Canada has caused a good deal of concern. But is it all doom and gloom? Penn State University Extension's Brian Walsh says that’s not quite the case. Walsh has been part of the boots-on-the-ground management effort for several years, so his advice is tempered by plenty of experience.
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Known as the “Garden of Quebec,” Île d’Orléans farmers produce most of the strawberries found on the province’s tables. In fact, 80 per cent of Ferme Onésime Pouliot’s production can be found in the province’s supermarkets. The Pouliot family’s farm is in transition from strawberries grown in fields to strawberry plants grown in substrate on tables.
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Every year, more than 3,000 tons of tender fruit grown in Niagara are thrown away for being overripe or not pretty enough. Arnie Lepp thinks that’s a sin. In search of a way to reduce food waste in the region, the fourth-generation tender fruit and grape farmer hit upon the idea of turning those bruised and discoloured apricots, pears and cherries into alcohol.
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