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File photo of a field of soybeans under turbines at southern Manitoba’s St. Joseph wind farm. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)
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Russia to ban some imports of seeds from Canada, Europe

Canada's Prograin soybean seed on list

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Moscow | Reuters — Russia will ban imports of some seeds from several locations in Europe and Canada from Aug. 15, its agriculture safety watchdog said on Thursday, citing non-compliance by suppliers with phytosanitary requirements as the reason. Imports of tomato and carrot seeds will be banned from a nursery of Satimex Quedlinburg, in Germany, […] Read more
French’s ketchup on a McCormick Canada processing line at London, Ont. (Mccormickcorporation.com)
Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

McCormick brings French’s ketchup processing in-house

Club House spice maker expands London, Ont. plant

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The firm behind the French’s ketchup brand is bringing its bottling of the product to its own plant in southwestern Ontario. McCormick Canada, the Canadian arm of Baltimore-area condiment and spice maker McCormick and Co., on Monday announced it had completed a “multi-million dollar expansion” at its London, Ont. plant to blend, bottle and package […] Read more
A Heinz ketchup packing line. (Kraft Heinz video screengrab)
Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Kraft Heinz backed for ketchup production in Montreal

Company to add ketchup line at Mont Royal site

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A $23.3 million expansion of Kraft Heinz’s food manufacturing complex in Montreal will see the company resume making Heinz ketchup for Canada, in Canada. The U.S.-based food processing giant and the Quebec government on Nov. 17 announced the expansion plan for the company’s Mont Royal plant, which today makes products such as KD Mac + […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

U.S. to levy tariff on imported Mexican tomatoes in trade spat

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Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it will begin imposing a 17.5 per cent tariff on imported Mexican tomatoes, but said it is optimistic that a deal can be reached to extend a 2013 agreement that suspended a U.S. anti-dumping investigation. “The Department of Commerce remains committed to ensuring that […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Ontario names trustee to break tomato impasse

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The Ontario government has appointed a trustee to assume the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers’ power to negotiate 2017 contracts with processors for the growing of processing tomatoes in the province. The board of directors of the marketing board has been dismissed until new elections are held, as expected by the end of 2017. “I have […] Read more
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Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Feds fund tomato and apple research

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An Ontario research station is getting nearly a million dollars from the Federal government to develop new disease-resistant apple and greenhouse tomato varieties. The Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, located in Lincoln, Ont., will build on work done earlier by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists, who will continue to be heavily involved in the research. […] Read more
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Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Tomato producer Mastronardi said seeking buyer

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Reuters — Mastronardi Produce, an Ontario grower and distributor of hothouse tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, is exploring a sale it hopes could value it at as much as $900 million, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Privately-held Mastronardi has hired Bank of Montreal (BMO) to run an auction process, the people said […] Read more

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