Reading Time: 2 minutes Quebec-based Nortera Foods is closing its Lethbridge frozen vegetable facility in June as part of a strategic restructuring, ending 75-year processing run in region.
Nortera’s Lethbridge plant closure ends 75 years of frozen vegetable processing in southern Alberta
Closure of Nortera's Lethbridge facility ends 75 years of frozen vegetable processing, leaving roughly 6,000 contracted acres and 70 jobs in limbo as the company consolidates operations in Quebec
Canadian trade tribunal to examine imports of frozen, canned vegetables
Canadian officials will look into whether global imports of frozen and canned vegetables are threatening Canadian growers and processors.
Path cleared to Mexico for fresh Canadian potatoes, supplanting U.S. spuds
A new agreement between national food safety agencies would allow Canada to export fresh potatoes to Mexico, whose imports of fresh potatoes for years have been solely from the U.S.
Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026
Food prices are 27 per cent higher now than they were in 2020, the new Canada’s Food Price Report shows. Meat prices are particularly to blame for the rise.
Big Marble Farms to boost production, lower costs with government grant
Emissions Reduction Alberta showcases new energy program at Big Marble Farms, a greenhouse vegetable producer near Medicine Hat
Reading Time: 4 minutes Big Marble Farms near Medicine Hat is receiving a $2.2 million grant from Emissions Reduction Alberta to install cutting-edge horticultural grow lights.
Alberta farm lives up to corn capital reputation
Adding sweet corn to his crop rotation 20 years ago turned out to be a tasty decision for this vegetable grower
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Farm to Table Tour featured Molnar Farms, which grows a large variety of market fruits and vegetables including corn, with Taber being known as the Corn Capital of Canada.
Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada appoint policy lead
FVGC announces Erik Nielsen will step into the newly-created role of Director of Policy, Research, and Public Affairs
Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed – and a tomato was involved
Study, which analyzed genomes from cultivated and wild potatoes, may improve future breeding
A new analysis of 450 genomes from cultivated potatoes and 56 genomes of wild potato species has revealed that the potato lineage originated through natural interbreeding between a wild tomato plant and a potato-like species in South America about 9 million years ago.
In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog
In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.
Expanding greenhouse sector means more home-grown veggies
Plenty of room to expand in controlled environment agriculture, but investment needed says FCC
Canada continues to rely heavily in imported fruits and vegetables, especially during its long winters but different types of controlled environment agriculture like greenhouses are expanding and changing the balance says Farm Credit Canada.