The Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association (AGGA) will be hosting their Meet & Greet event with greenhouse tours of the Edmonton area this Thursday, September 13th. Sign up required.» Read more...
Running from September 8 to 16, Organic Week is Canada’s largest celebration of organic food, farming and products, with well over a thousand events nationwide and over 3500 participating retail locations annually.» Read more...
Niagara College welcomed its first class of future cannabis industry leaders and officially launched its one-of-a-kind Commercial Cannabis Production (Graduate Certificate) program at its Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus last week.» Read more...
Growers and IPM specialists have previously reported that Aphidius ervi does not seem to be effective in controlling the relatively “new” aphid pest - foxglove aphid. However, experiment after experiment in our lab (and subsequent trials at Cornell University) demonstrated that not only did A. ervi control foxglove aphids, it actually out-performed other biocontrol agents tested. How did it manage to get such a bad reputation? » Learn more