Publications
Publications by The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC) are listed below.
- Annual Reports
- The Farm Game Comic
- Presentations to House of Commons and Senate Standing Committees
- Biosecurity Standards and Guides
- Climate Change
- Late Blight
- Potato promotion
- Statistics
- Research
Annual Reports
The Farm Game Comic
Canadian farmers are under an ever-increasing amount of pressure due to changing government regulations and competition from U.S. and Mexican growers. Ironically, the federal government wants to grow Canada’s agricultural exports to $75 billion by 2025. It’s about time the government recognizes the mounting challenges currently facing growers and how difficult this target is going to be to meet. In order to help drive the point home, CHC has created a playful comic with a sombre warning to government: it’s time to start offering more help than hurdles!
Presentations to House of Commons and Senate Standing Committees
- Non‐tariff trade barriers to the sale of agricultural products in relation to fair trade agreements (2017)
- On the implementation of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (2017)
- The potential impact of the effects of climate change on the agriculture, agrifood (2017)
- Bee Health Monitoring in Canada (2016)
- Study: Canada’s Preferential Status under the United States Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) (2016)
- Study: Innovation and Competitiveness, Standing Committee on Agriculture (2014)
- Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Effects of it on the Canadian Agriculture Sector (2013)
- Food Safety in Canada’s Horticultural Sector (2009)
Biosecurity Standards and Guides
In collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA):
- National Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for Potato Growers (2016)
- National Voluntary Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for the Greenhouse, Nursery and Floriculture Sectors (2017)
Climate change
Late blight
- Characterization and Tracking of Potato Blight Pathogen in Canada – Final Progress Report March 2018
- Potato Storage Management fact sheet (2012)
- Late Blight Factsheet (2011)
- Understanding and Managing Late Blight Presentation (2011)
Potato promotion
- National Promotion and Marketing Strategy (2013)
- Feasibility Study Regarding the Creation of a National Promotion and Research Agency for Potatoes (2014)
Research
- National Potato Research and Innovation Strategy (2016)
- Inventory of Research Capacity in Canada (2012)
- Fresh Thinking for a Competitive Canada: Growing the Five Billion Dollar Canadian Horticultural Production Sector (2007)