Key Issues
Sustainability
Learn more about the new tools and technologies that will help make fruit and vegetable production cleaner, greener and more cost effective.
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News
News releases
The latest news from the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers' Association.
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Food production
Here in Ontario, we’re able to produce many of our own fruits and vegetables. Learn more about what that means and why that matters to all of us.
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Statement from the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association: Protecting crops, protecting food: OFVGA welcomes Bill C-30
The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association (OFVGA) welcomes the passing of Bill C-30 as an important step toward strengthening Canada's food security and helping growers protect the crops Canadians rely on. Bill C-30 broadens the mandate of Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to consider the impact of their decisions on Canada's food supply and agricultural competitiveness.
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Consumers paying more while fruit and vegetable growers get less
A newly released pricing study from Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers mirrors what growers across Ontario's fruit and vegetable sector are experiencing: consumers are paying more, while farmers are often getting less.
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Fruit and vegetable growers elect new leadership
Ontario’s fruit and vegetable growers have elected a new leadership team, with Mike Chromczak stepping into the role of chair of the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers’ Association (OFVGA) and Matthias Oppenlaender elected as vice chair. Chromczak steps into the chair’s role after serving for three years as vice chair under now-past president Shawn Brenn.
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The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association has been advocating for Ontario’s fruit and vegetable growers for over 160 years.
The sector includes more than 3,500 family farms, which support over 30,000 farm-based, non-family jobs in Ontario. Over 125 different fruit and vegetable crops are grown in Ontario.
