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(Bicks.ca)
Crops

Smucker to shed Bick’s brand

Pickle brand, other Canadian condiments to go to TreeHouse

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. food firm J.M. Smucker has a deal in place to sell off the Canadian pickle brand Bick’s and a portfolio of condiment brands it makes for the Canadian market. Ohio-based Smucker announced Oct. 17 it will sell the Bick’s brand plus the Habitant pickled beets, Woodman’s horseradish and McLarens pickled onions brands to Illinois […] Read more
The Agriculture Enlightened conference, held Oct. 26 in Winnipeg and hosted by EMILI, is trying to help Canada become a leader in digital and precision agriculture. (John Deere photo)
Crops, Machinery

Robots may help grain farmers diversify

Tech could support labour-intensive higher-value crops

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Chuck Baresich, who owns an agricultural robotics business in Ontario, says controlling weeds with robots is probably best suited for high-value, horticultural crops in Canada. However, large-scale grain farmers could also use the technology if they think about it differently. “Let’s say my brother and me are growing 1,500 acres of corn,” said Baresich, who […] Read more
(Limagrain.com)
Crops, Reuters

Limagrain offers to buy out seed maker Vilmorin

Pride Seeds co-owner has majority stake in veg seed firm

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris | Reuters — French agricultural co-operative Limagrain has offered to buy the 28.78 per cent of Vilmorin it does not already own in a deal that values one of the world’s biggest seed suppliers at 1.43 billion euros (C$2.13 billion). Limagrain said on Friday it was offering 62.60 euros per Vilmorin share, a premium […] Read more
Tam and daughter Laurel in the farm’s storied pumpkin crop.
Guide Business, Marketing

An invitation for more guests

“Real farmers” may dismiss agri-tourism and U-pick farms, but with its helicopter packages, fine dining and revenue of $1,500 per customer in some of its ventures, this may be one farm you want to check out

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Reading Time: 6 minutes At Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm a half hour north of Edmonton, 80 per cent of the family’s farm revenue used to come from commodity sales and 20 per cent from agri-tourism. Now, those numbers have flipped with agri-tourism bringing in the bulk of the revenue for their northern Alberta farm. Owner Tam Andersen says […] Read more
VanDeVelde says she isn’t too worried about the numbers. “Agriculture has some of the best and brightest” she says.
Guide Business

Does Canada have enough young farmers?

It probably depends on what you mean by “enough”

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jennifer VanDeVelde never planned to farm. She graduated university with a biology degree, attended teachers college and went straight into the classroom. Five years later, in 2006, VanDeVelde left that classroom and joined her husband, David, a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, on the family farm in Delhi, Ont. The VanDeVeldes, both 40, transitioned out of tobacco […] Read more
Researchers are working towards a closed-loop system and Graham predicts the growing systems will also get more efficient as artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning and feedback from the data sensors are utilized more effectively.
Fruit/Vegetables, Guide Life

Grow food anywhere

New Canadian startup Growcer already has 50 “vertical farms” in place in Canada. Get ready for a whole lot more

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In Canada’s northern regions, where the growing season is so short it can seem non-existent in any agricultural sort of way, fresh food from California and Mexico is not only expensive due to the transportation costs; all too often, it is no longer fresh. After experiencing first-hand how the high cost of fresh, healthy food […] Read more
“I have immense passion for what I do,” says Cindy Mueller. It’s a passion that makes a business difference. “The food we grow ... is healing people.”
Crops, Guide Business

The ginger difference

What’s the best strategy to market a product no one thinks you can grow? The Mueller farm perks things up

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Reading Time: 7 minutes For Cindy and Ron Mueller, who run Fisherville Greenhouses near Lake Erie an hour south of Hamilton, the farm business was ticking along. It felt like they had it pretty much figured out. The couple had started their farm careers by growing tomatoes for sale through a wholesaler. Then, when the market changed, they adapted […] Read more
The Cebulak family working together, from left, Nathan, Shawn, Blaine, Andrew, Leonard and Derek.
Fruit/Vegetables, Guide Business

Bold strides through diversification

The Cebulak family searches for new revenue streams that will grow the farm for the next generation

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Reading Time: 4 minutes This five-part series features farm families leading change through bold decisions on family planning, new ventures, revenue diversification, innovation and business operations. Read parts one and two here. Cebulak Family Farms is a fruit, vegetable and cash crop farm owned and operated by brothers Blaine and Leonard Cebulak alongside their next generation: Nathan, Andrew, Derek and […] Read more
The way Paul Shumlich (left) and Reid Henuset see it, farming is entering an era of huge, disruptive change. And they plan to be there for the ride.
Guide Business, Marketing

Changing places

There’s a new kind of farm in Calgary — yes, it’s right in Calgary — and it’s surging ahead with its business plan to make money, be environmentally conscious, and destroy the import market

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Reading Time: 11 minutes We’re a long way from hippies in ponchos and bare feet. Urban agriculture has graduated. Today, it’s all about serious professionals who know that growing food is a business before anything else. A way of life? Only if it turns a profit. And there’s something else that’s curious too, especially for operations designed as vertical […] Read more
Interior view of the Aurora Sky cannabis production facility near Edmonton. (Aurora Cannabis video screengrab)
Crops

Aurora buys control of major B.C. hothouse veg firm

Bevo Farms to take over Aurora Sky cannabis production site

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A major player in B.C.’s greenhouse vegetable sector is about to expand its operations into an Alberta cannabis grow facility — backed by a major investment from the plant’s owner. Aurora Cannabis on Aug. 25 announced a subsidiary is buying a 50.1 per cent stake in Bevo Agtech, the parent of vegetable and ornamental plant […] Read more

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