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Andrea Borodenko and Antoine Casimir have acquired Quebec’s Production Lareault.(CNW Group/Production Lareault)

Major strawberry plant producer changes hands

New owners get funding to buy Lareault business

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 4, 2023

The Quebec company billed as Canada’s largest producer of strawberry plants has picked up new ownership after nearly 70 years. Production Lareault, based on just over 450 acres at Lavaltrie, Que. — about 40 km northeast of Montreal, in the province’s Lanaudiere region — has been acquired by investors Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko for

Ripe haskap berries ready for the picking at Haskap Prairie Orchards.

Crops, News

Local haskap growers launch national event

Haskap Berry Days aims to educate the public about the crop and will run July 3-9

By Don Norman June 26, 2023

Haskap berries will have their national moment in the spotlight this July, and a couple of local growers are spearheading the effort. Trena and Wayne Zacharias of West St. Paul have taken the lead on establishing Canada’s first national Haskap Berry Days. The event is designed to educate the public on the berry, which is

Granite rock outcrop areas in the Whiteshell have many nooks and crannies that grow excellent blueberries.

Farmit Manitoba

Musings from the berry patch

The mind wanders as the berry pail slowly fills

By Tim Sopuck September 7, 2022

Compared to last year’s drought-driven berry bust, this summer has been a great turnaround for berry pickers. Across the province, people are filling pails with these tasty, versatile wild delights. I’ve been a berry picker ever since childhood. These days, picking berries not only fills the larder, but helps to connect me to my family

File photo of Canadian farm-grown blueberries. (LittleCityLifestylePhotography/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Weather

Prizes put up to develop year-round berry production in Canada

Weston Foundation's new challenge backed with $33 million

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 8, 2022

A philanthropic foundation focused on improving public health now wants to improve diets by finding ways to juice up Canada’s home-grown fruit supplies. The Weston Family Foundation on Tuesday pledged $33 million over six years for what it calls the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a prize challenge pitting ideas against ideas with the goal of extending

News

U-pick operations to open with safety precautions

Online stores set up to assist sales of pre-picked berries

By Geralyn Wichers June 5, 2020

U-picks for strawberries, saskatoon berries and other fruits will open this June with safety measures in place, the Prairie Fruit Growers Association announced on May 20. PFGA, which represents 70 U-pick farms in Manitoba, has been working with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development fruit crops specialist, Anthony Mintenko, to develop COVID-19 guidelines. “Some of the

Yellow raspberries add unique colour and  flavour to any recipe.

Country Crossroads

Raspberries don’t have to be red

Why not try a yellow/gold or purple/black variety?

By Albert Parsons August 12, 2016

Many rural gardens have raspberry patches and the first fruits are eagerly anticipated as midsummer approaches. There is nothing quite like the taste of fresh raspberries picked off your very own patch. Most grown in Prairie gardens are red varieties, with “Boyne” being one of the most popular. The berries are large, sweet, and produced

Spotted wing drosophila (SWD) is a vinegar (fruit) fly of East Asian origin that can damage many crops by piercing healthy fruit and laying its eggs.

Crops, News

Spotted Wing Drosophila an unwelcome visitor to fruit farms this summer

MAFRD began monitoring for SWD in 2013 and this is the worst year yet, say provincial fruit crops specialist

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2015

Altona-area fruit grower Waldo Thiessen knew what was wrong immediately when his U-pick customers started calling back a few hours after their first day in his raspberry patch in mid-July. “They said they’d started to make jam, and, well, there was a lot of protein (in the raspberries),” he said. It was larvae of spotted

Chris Siow, a research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine is studying the health benefits of lingonberries.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Wild or farmed? Lingonberries seek place in Manitoba agriculture

Tiny, tart and full of goodness, Manitoba’s wild lingonberries are even healthier than those grown in other areas

By Shannon VanRaes July 22, 2015

Today they belong to the category often labelled as “superfoods,” but Dave Buck has always known that lingonberries were good tasting and nutritious. “I grew up in the bush,” he said. “And I can remember when I was young, my parents would pick the berries, they’d juice them. We’d have juice at Christmas and then

Mila Maximets is the creator of Solberry, a sea buckthorn purée made in Manitoba. Photo: Shannon VanRaes

Crops, Local news

Prairie fruit business needs more sea buckthorn growers

Manitoba maker of sea buckthorn products says a lack of berries has limited the growth of her business

By Shannon VanRaes September 6, 2013

Sea buckthorn is moving out of the hedgerows and into the mainstream, as new varieties and evolving technologies promise to make harvesting the nutrient-rich berry less labour intensive. “It’s been a very difficult industry to kind of get going, a lot of the cultivars that were first planted aren’t ideal for harvesting, in fact they’re

Crops

Manitoba Entrepreneur Says Sea Buckthorn Packs A Punch

By Shannon VanRaes October 27, 2011

Genghis Khan used it, and so did the cosmonauts, ancient Greeks, and modern Chinese Olympians. Now Mila Maximets wants Manitobans to get on board and start consuming sea buckthorn. The tart orange berry is more commonly associated with shelterbelts than health foods in this province, but it s the sole ingredient in Solberry, a new

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

U.S. grains: Soy futures post biggest monthly gain in nearly five years on China trade optimism

Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026

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