by Ashley Peyrard | Nov 23, 2021 | Actualités
November 23, 2021 – Potato Wart (PW), a regulated quarantine pest, has been detected since 2000 in fields in Prince Edward Island (PEI). New detections in two commercial potato fields that were already under regulation due to association with earlier...
by Ashley Peyrard | Nov 4, 2021 | Actualités
November 4, 2021 – On behalf of North America’s fresh produce industry, national and regional associations have released a joint statement calling for urgent government action to address significant ongoing supply chain disruptionsimpacting our food...
by Ashley Peyrard | Juil 20, 2021 | Actualités
July 20, 2021 – Following last week’s Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) meeting of Canada’s Ministers of Agriculture, the Canadian Horticultural Council (CHC) expresses its support for the establishment of a Grocer Code of Conduct in Canada,...
by Ashley Peyrard | Juil 6, 2021 | Actualités
CHC applauds the step Ontario has made towards increasing the compensation rate for AgriStability, following the proposal from the federal government to remove the Reference Margin Limit (RML) and increase the compensation rate from 70% to 80%. While the agreement...
by Ashley Peyrard | Juin 10, 2021 | Actualités
Ottawa: June 9, 2021: Momentum is building to establish Canada’s first agri-food sustainability index. A private-public coalition of thirty-four diverse partners has released the Business Case for Establishing the National Index on Agri-Food Performance to...
by Ashley Peyrard | Avr 22, 2021 | Actualités
Dear CHC Members, Over the past several years, we have been working with industry partners to establish a “deemed trust,” which means financial protection for fresh produce growers and sellers at a federal level. Some of you may know of this as PACA...
