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Oat starch for less food waste

One researcher hopes a protective coating made of oat starch can be used to extend fruit and veggie shelf life

By Robert Arnason February 13, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Fruit and vegetables make up a lot of the food that Canadians throw away. Of all household food items that end up in the trash, vegetables represent 30 per cent of total food waste by weight, while fruits come in at 15 per cent, according to anti-food waste website LoveFoodHateWaste.ca. The site,

File photo of immature peaches on a tree in California’s San Joaquin Valley. (GomezDavid/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Major U.S. peach producer files for bankruptcy to pursue sale

Setbacks have included salmonella, fires, heavy debts

By GFM Network News October 14, 2023

New York | Reuters — Prima, a private-equity backed farmer that is the largest producer of peaches and other stone fruit in North America, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on Friday. The company, owned by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners, has about $679 million in debt, and plans to sell its

ICE November 2023 FCOJ with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

Orange juice prices near all-time high as storm hits Florida

Crop was already expected to be small

By GFM Network News, Marcelo Teixeira August 31, 2023

New York | Reuters — Orange juice prices at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) rose more than three per cent on Wednesday, heading back toward an all-time high hit earlier this month, as storm Idalia slammed parts of main U.S. orange producer Florida. Contracts for frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) at ICE hit a high of

The exterior and interior of the new Vermillion Growers greenhouse near Dauphin.

News

Enormous Dauphin greenhouse opens for tomato production

In its initial phase, Vermillion Growers will supply 10 million pounds of tomatoes to the Prairie market

By Geralyn Wichers August 9, 2023

Within weeks, 10 acres of tomatoes will be growing in a Dauphin greenhouse, destined for distribution all over the Prairies. “It’s a little bit surreal, because we’ve been at it for such a long time, but at the same time, we’re all so ready,” said Maria Deschauer, managing director of Vermillion Growers. Why it matters:

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

Crops, Weather

Hurricane Ian to worsen bleak outlook for U.S. orange juice industry

By GFM Network News, Marcelo Teixeira September 29, 2022

New York | Reuters — Hurricane Ian is likely to have worsened what was already expected to be the smallest U.S. orange crop in 55 years after it blasted through a large fruit producing area when it passed through Florida this week, flooding farms and causing oranges to drop from trees. Precise information on losses

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

People cook food beside their damaged house following rains and floods during Pakistan’s monsoon season at Jafarabad, about 400 km north of Hyderabad, on Aug. 28, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Amer Hussain)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Flooding wrecks crops, hampers logistics

By GFM Network News August 31, 2022

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant inflation, with consumer prices up

File photo of fresh cherries purchased from an orchard’s roadside stand at Penticton, B.C. (Amy Mitchell/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

B.C. cherries cleared for export to Korea

Canada-Korea free trade pact a step ahead on lower tariffs

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 22, 2022

Canada’s seven-year-old free trade pact with South Korea already provides for reduced tariffs on cherries from British Columbia — a commodity that’s just been approved for export to Korea for the first time starting this month. Canadian agriculture and food safety officials announced Aug. 10 that talks with Seoul on import rules and certifications had

A West St. Paul couple are working to carve out their share of the emerging haskap berry market.

Farmit Manitoba

A dream brought to fruition – hedging on haskaps

After pulling the pin on grain farming, Wayne and Trena Zacharias are placing their fortunes on what will be Manitoba’s largest haskap berry orchard

By Don Norman August 10, 2022

Wayne and Trena Zacharias have bet the farm on haskap berries. The couple has already sunk nearly a quarter-million dollars (excluding land value) into their switch from grain farmers to proprietors of a 20-acre berry orchard near West St. Paul. It’s cost them almost two years, buckets of sweat and the anxiety of getting young

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean prices rise as China-U.S. truce assessed

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures post limit-down losses

ICE canola weekly outlook: Market rangebound

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