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The Casteels greenhouse tomatoes were growing quickly after the January planting.
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Greenhouse venture focuses on local

Tom Casteels is adding value to the family business with a new Caesar drink mix

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Tom Casteels of Centreton, Ont. virtually grew up in a greenhouse, helping his father Alfons in the hydroponic-tomatoes business. Now that he’s buying it, he’s setting out to follow his own vision of creating a value-added product. Casteels considered making a salsa or tomato sauce, but decided so many of those already exist, so he […] Read more
Zenabis’ CEO Rick Brar and chief growing officer Leo Benne in a Bevo facility at Langley, B.C. (CNW Group/Bevo Agro)
Crops

Vegetable seedling grower, cannabis grower to merge

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A B.C. company that raises seedlings for greenhouse vegetable growers is set to devote its existing square footage to weed, following a takeover by a B.C. cannabis grower and processor. Langley-based, publicly-traded Bevo Agro on Thursday announced a reverse takeover deal with Surrey-based, privately-held cannabis firm Sun Pharm Investments, which will see Sun Pharm shareholders […] Read more
Greenhouse strawberries are grown at about waist height.
Crops

Strawberry expansion proves to be good business decision

Mucci Farms identified many potential pitfalls to growing indoor strawberries, but two years later, it is looking at adding more

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The owners of Mucci Farms saw many good reasons to stay away from expanding their Leamington-area greenhouse operation to grow strawberries. But as the company looks back on its 2015 decision to proceed anyway, following two years of acreage expansion and expected construction of a third 12-acre strawberry facility in 2018, those perceived obstacles have […] Read more
Valerio Primono is the tomato plant breeder at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre.
Crops, News

A new tomato for Ontario

A large project aims to create on-the-vine greenhouse tomatoes optimized for Ontario growing conditions and consumers

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What do Ontarians like in a tomato? Some like a tough skin and viscous inside. Others like sweetness and softness. The Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers gave the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre the challenge of figuring out what Ontarians prefer in a tomato-eating experience and then developing a tomato that fits that demand. Oh, and […] Read more
Jeff Leal, Ontario’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs (fourth from left), announced the new Greenhouse Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative at a greenhouse in Bowmanville, Ont. (Photo courtesy OMAFRA)
Crops, Machinery

Ontario greenhouse growers get competitiveness fund

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The Ontario government is putting $19 million into a new initiative to support the competitiveness of the greenhouse sector in the province. Provincial Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal announced the funding on Thursday at Link Greenhouse near Bowmanville, just east of Oshawa. The Greenhouse Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative aims to provide funding for the creation of […] Read more
An algae bloom at the west end of Lake Erie, off of Ohio, Michigan and southwestern Ontario, seen from space on Aug. 3, 2014. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center photo)
Crops

Lake Erie plan’s farming recommendations released

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A federal/provincial action plan to reduce phosphorus loading in Lake Erie has been released for public comment — and many of its recommendations will have implications for farmers in the Lake Erie basin. None of the numerous recommendations are particularly new or surprising and mostly call for using existing funding programs to encourage certain production […] Read more
(Bobcat.com)
Crops, Machinery

B.C. pulls PST for farm telehandlers, skid steers

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Qualifying farmers in British Columbia are now able to buy telehandlers, skid steers and polycarbonate greenhouse panels for farm use without paying the province’s seven per cent sales tax. The province on Thursday announced the additions, effective Feb. 17, to its list of goods, equipment and services for which eligible farmers are PST-exempt. Farmers wanting […] Read more
(SunsetGrown.com)
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Tomato producer Mastronardi said seeking buyer

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Reuters — Mastronardi Produce, an Ontario grower and distributor of hothouse tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, is exploring a sale it hopes could value it at as much as $900 million, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Privately-held Mastronardi has hired Bank of Montreal (BMO) to run an auction process, the people said […] Read more
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Ont. to allow land application of greenhouse feedwater

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Spent nutrient solutions from Ontario’s commercial greenhouses will be made more easily available to crop growers for land application starting in 2015 under a new provincial regulatory framework. Greenhouse growers in the province are already required by law to safely dispose of the greenhouse nutrient feedwater (GNF) after it’s been used, circulated and reused to […] Read more

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