Saturday, February 15, 2020

Veggie regulations amended



The Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission is amending regulations so contracted tonnage, not purchased tonnage, is used to determine minimum tonnage processors will purchase.

The change applies to tomatoes and carrots.

There have been a number of changes favoured by processors, but resisted by some producers, that the commission has imposed on the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers marketing board in the last two years.

The changes came after Ontario lost a number of processing companies, including Heinz in Leamington.