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A Heinz ketchup packing line. (Kraft Heinz video screengrab)
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Kraft Heinz backed for ketchup production in Montreal

Company to add ketchup line at Mont Royal site

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A $23.3 million expansion of Kraft Heinz’s food manufacturing complex in Montreal will see the company resume making Heinz ketchup for Canada, in Canada. The U.S.-based food processing giant and the Quebec government on Nov. 17 announced the expansion plan for the company’s Mont Royal plant, which today makes products such as KD Mac + […] Read more
Jim Clark, chair of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission. (John Greig photo)
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Ontario’s processing vegetable growers in new regulatory reality

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The only way is forward. That’s what Ontario’s processing vegetable growers heard at their annual meeting from the chair of the group that regulates farm marketing in the province. That doesn’t mean some farmers didn’t still question the province’s move to fire the board of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers (OPVG) and its staff in […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
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Ontario tomato farmers to get less on higher yields

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The agreement between Ontario growers and tomato processors for the 2017 growing season is expected to drop the price tomato farmers are paid as their yields increase. The agreement, announced last week, maintains the contracted tonnage of 2016 and follows the five-year pricing agreement set by growers and processors last year. Final prices, however, aren’t […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
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Ontario tomato processors cancel orders for spring

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Retaliating in a dispute with what they call a “growers’ cartel,” two of Ontario’s major commercial tomato processors say they won’t contract with tomato seedling producers for this spring’s crop. Sun-Brite Foods and Highbury Canco, which describe themselves as two of the three biggest tomato processors in the province, said Wednesday their cutback in orders […] Read more

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