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Do you have a farm worth showing off? Growing produce almost too beautiful to eat? Enter our 2025 Photo Contest for the chance to have your photo featured on the cover of our November issue! Enter at fruitandveggie.com.
- Jill Filmer, editor
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Following a cool, wet spell of weather, the growing degree days of most counties across Ontario are at or below the 10-year average. Check out the latest for vegetable and fruit crops.
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The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (OFVGA) has announced that the government of Ontario has released $175,000 in funding towards the Fresh from the Farm school fundraising program to better support the program's marketing initiatives.
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The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA) has entered a three-year funding agreement of $597,000 with Farm & Food Care Ontario (FFCO), a registered Canadian charity, to support FFCO's outreach initiatives, which aim to grow consumer confidence in Ontario's agri-food system.
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Launched in 2022, the Homegrown Innovation Challenge has entered the final phase of the challenge, the Scaling Phase. In this three phase challenge, selected researchers are to develop a system that can produce berries out-of-season and at a marketable scale for Canada. This challenge is supported by the Weston Family Foundation.
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This volume addresses the challenges of the short shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Innovative packaging technologies are the most promising strategies for overcoming these limitations. This book provides a host of sustainable packaging solutions that deliver protection, branding, consumer attractiveness, and speed to market in a competitive retail environment.
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Influential Women in Agriculture honouree Athyna Cambouris has played a pivotal role in paving the way for precision agriculture in Canada. Tune into this conversation as she discusses her journey into the research field, how she prioritizes getting important knowledge into the hands of farmers and policy makers, and her invaluable advice for women interested in pursuing a career in agriculture.
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After leaving school, thinking he could fall back on the family farm, Samuel Bourgeois rediscovered his passion for farming after a bit of tough love from his father. Now that he oversees a workforce of local and offshore labourers who pick, store and pack fruit – along with welcoming thousands of tourists to the farm each weekend of harvest season – Bourgeois appreciates the lesson his father was trying to teach him.
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