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U.S. becomes world’s biggest wine market as French drinkers cut down

By Sybille de La Hamaide May 13, 2014

Paris | Reuters — The United States became the world’s biggest market for wine last year, beating France into second place for the first time as consumption slides in the country long seen as its natural home and Americans develop a greater taste for it. U.S. consumers bought 29.1 million hectolitres of wine in 2013, […] Read more

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CFIA widens plum pox net in Niagara region

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 13, 2014

The quarantine area is now slightly larger in southern Ontario’s Niagara region where tender fruit trees are still considered at risk for the yield-robbing plum pox virus. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Tuesday it has expanded its regulated area for plum pox virus by 800 metres. The expansion is in response to a confirmed […] Read more

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Zimbabwe bans fresh fruit, vegetable imports

April 2, 2014

Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe has banned imports of fresh fruit and vegetables with immediate effect, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday, arguing that increased local production will meet domestic demand. The ban will mostly impact supplies of tomatoes, potatoes, mangoes, grapes and apples from neighbouring South Africa, the ministry said in a statement. South African […] Read more

Heinz has described its Canadian tomato juice products as produced from “high-quality tomatoes grown in Canada from Heinz seed” with “exceptional sweetness and taste.” (HeinzFoodService.ca)

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Juice supply deal to rescue S. Ont. tomato operations

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 27, 2014

Growers in southern Ontario’s tomato capital may soon resume plans for a 2014 crop, as Heinz’s storied processing plant in the region switches from ketchup to juice under a proposal to save the plant from closure. H.J. Heinz Co. announced Thursday it’s signed a letter of intent to sell the U.S. company’s Leamington, Ont. plant […] Read more

New regulations specifically require products sold as icewine in Canada to be made exclusively from grapes naturally frozen on the vine. (WineriesofNiagaraontheLake.com)

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New standard to define icewine in Canada

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 13, 2014

If it’s not made only with grapes naturally frozen on the vine, it can’t be called icewine. As obvious as it may seem, a new move to enshrine that notion in the federal Agricultural Products Act is expected to ease and boost exports of Canada’s most lucrative wines and weed out any pretenders claiming to […] Read more

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U.S. becomes world’s biggest wine market as French drinkers cut down

CFIA widens plum pox net in Niagara region

Zimbabwe bans fresh fruit, vegetable imports

Juice supply deal to rescue S. Ont. tomato operations

New standard to define icewine in Canada

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