The
Ontario Farm Producrts Marketing Commission has approved plans for a
marketing board with powers to control production and marketing of
strawberries, raspberrries and blueberries.
The new
Berry Growers of Ontario Marketing Board will be run by
commission-appointed directors to start this year.
The
appointees are Kevin Howe of Aylmer, Matt Tigchelaar of Jordan and
Graham Shaw of Windemere for strawberries; Kerry Copestake of Wooler,
Steve Kustermans of Mt. Brydges and Dusty Zamecnik of Langton for
blueberries; and Alex McKay of Port Perry, Tom Heeman of Thomas
Centre and Brian Rijke of Iroquois for raspberries.
They
will serve as directors until elections are held next year.
The board will not have power to control marketing into Ontario from the U.S. or other provinces. Those powers would require a national agency.
