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“It was extremely good picking. It didn’t take you long to fill a basket…” – Ken Lucko, Monominto Berry Farm.
Crops, News

Manitoba sees bursting berry season

Unlike the rough start of many crops, fruit growers — and strawberry growers in particular — won the production lottery this year

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Ken Lucko lucked out this year with his acres of strawberries, and he’s not alone. One of the proprietors of Monominto Berry Farm near Anola in eastern Manitoba, Lucko knew earlier this spring that the season had promise. He now labels it as excellent, and his u-pick and pre-pick operation has closed for the season.
This 36-foot-long tomato growing in the United States Botanic Garden greenhouse in Washington, D.C. celebrated its first birthday in March.
Farmit Manitoba

Titanic tomato is science fact, not science fiction

Hydroponically fed, it just keeps growing more than 14 months after being planted

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Science fiction often portrays giant plants as monsters — think Audrey II from “Little Shop of Horrors,” and the marauding Triffids in “Day of the Triffids.” But the titanic tomato growing soilless here in the United States Botanic Garden greenhouse for more than a year seems benign enough, but its size and age make it
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Crops

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

Cases reported in two provinces, three states

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Washington | Reuters –– Food safety regulators in both Canada and the U.S. are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the
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

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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
File photo of elderberries. (DedMityay/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Smoothie cubes pulled for raw elderberry use

Quebec company's 'Immunity' smoothies under recall; illnesses reported

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Federal food safety officials say a Quebec company’s new line of frozen smoothie cubes, sold online, is being recalled over its use of raw elderberries and a resulting potential risk of cyanide poisoning. Montreal-based Evive Nutrition, known in part for its pitch on CBC TV’s Dragons’ Den in 2019, is recalling its Evive brand Immunity
beehive frame without honey
News, Other livestock

U.S. honey crop stung by climate change

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Drought-weakened bee colonies shrink North American honey crop, threaten almonds and fruit Gackle, N.D. | Reuters — There was barely a buzz in the air as John Miller pried the lid off of a crate, one of several “bee boxes” stacked in eight neat piles beside a cattle-grazing pasture outside Gackle, North Dakota, about 150
The strawberry field at Grunthal Berries at the beginning of June 2021.
News

Fruit farmers call for better insurance safety net

Exiting berry farmer says her experience illustrates a lack of support, forethought from provincial government

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First there was winterkill, then frost damage and finally lab tests confirmed what Colleen Edmunds of Grunthal Berries feared — the majority of her strawberry field was dead. Edmunds was ready to retire, and this was the final straw. “Why keep doing it?” she said. They finished out the raspberry picking season and pulled the
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops

U.S. trade body rules blueberry imports do not harm industry

Canada among top five nations selling blueberries into U.S.

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Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled on Thursday that blueberry imports are not causing serious injury to domestic producers and will not recommend further action to reduce foreign supplies, in a win for berry exporters. In recent years, U.S. producers have claimed damages from what they argue are unfair

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