Farmtario Staff

The Ontario government's Greenbelt Fund has announced funding for two projects to encourage more use of Ontario food. 100 Mile Market, a group of 160 farmers, will receive funding to provide more Ontario food to daycares, schools, universities and colleges, and hospital and long-term care facilities.  "Getting local food from the field to students and[...]

The New Brunswick and federal governments are providing more than $284,000 to help Canadian Syrup Inc., a maple syrup company in Elgin, N.B. build a modern and more efficient plant.The provincial government is providing $40,000 through the NB Growth Program to enable the company to build a 1,080-square-metre (12,000-sq.-ft.) plant with modern processing equipment and[...]

Hot weather and dryness continue to threaten corn and soy production in Argentina, where some corn crops are entering a a key growth stage, according to a Reuters report.Corn plants are starting to die in some areas and the soy crop is developing at a slower rate than normal due to parched conditions, which have[...]

Bayer CropScience's wheat crop fungicide Folicur has been reformulated and rebranded for use on oat and barley crops. The new formulation, dubbed Folicur EW, is registered to suppress fusarium head blight and control assorted foliar diseases such as rust, tan spot and septoria leaf blotch, the company said in a recent release. Growers using the[...]