[Growwine] support Ontario Peach Growers

Wed Mar 26 11:36:06 EDT 2008

Marketing of agricultural products in Ontario is often back asswords. We
save the land, we plant the crop in the hope that somehow when we go to
harvest, there will be a long term market. Supply management has a market
but they have developed other problems, particularly for new agriculture
graduates. Only if one has a long term return on the farm investment does
farming make any kind of logic. A real market needs to be developed first,
not last as is the present system. It needs to be sustainable in the long
term like supply management when it was first introduced.

Regards

Bert 

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From: growwine-bounces at littlefatwino.com
[mailto:growwine-bounces at littlefatwino.com] On Behalf Of melissa lounsbury
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:52 AM
To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
Subject: Re: [Growwine] support Ontario Peach Growers

We use the free stone or cling free for canning. My wife cans every year an
you can not compare these to the imports. People we have gave some to say
the very same thing as they have never tasted anything like it. Its like
everything else if thats all you get on the shelves then eventually thats
all you know.I todally agree with you Laura.         Maurice. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Laura <laura-sabourin at sympatico.ca>
To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:00:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Growwine] support Ontario Peach Growers

I believe that many of the canning peach growers in Niagara pulled out their

clings last year when the St Davids plant closed.
Most will be replanting to freestone (fresh market) peaches this spring. 
Expect to see a glut in the fresh peach market in about 5 years

Laura Sabourin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Ryan" <vnefv at brant.net>
To: <growwine at littlefatwino.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:41 AM
Subject: [Growwine] support Ontario Peach Growers

> Growwine colleagues;
> Last year I bought some excellent peaches from a Norfolk grower, and we 
> have
> the wine for sale in our winery. This grower has invested in a peach 
> orchard
> and they appear to have lost their buyer. I may not have all the names 
> right
> in here, but the Del Monte fruit cup people in St. Davids Ontario, were
> bought out, and now the peach and other components of this product will 
> come
> from offshore.
>
> Maybe, maybe someone local may buy the plant, but it doesn't look good. I
> would like to suggest that we make this year the "Peach WIne Challenge" 
> and
> encourage everyone to order peaches from their local suppliers.
>
> Five years ago, I was considering the peach and pear growing business, and
> being solicited by Kraft Canada, which seemes to have been the precursor 
> to
> DelMonte.
>
> I can guide people to local peach/pear(?) suppliers.
>
> Phil Ryan
> Simcoe Ont
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ludwick Papaurelis" <ludwick at papaurelis.ca>
> To: <growwine at littlefatwino.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Growwine] best to wait for summer for peaches I guess
>
>
>> You are a little late in finding out the bad fruit we get in
>> supermarkets for the last several years. I don't know what is used, I
>> suspected they were irradiated. The outside is always well preserved and
>> the inside is rotting. Other times the fruit never ripens - liked it has
>> been infused with a preservative. Fruit from certain countries are
>> consistently bad, mostly from Chile and Brazil. The best fruit seems to
>> come from New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and occasionally from
>> Argentina.
>> These are my kindest remarks regarding the fruit we get.
>> Ludwick
>>
>> Larry Paterson wrote:
>>> http://littlefatwino.com/freshobsessed.html
>>>
>>> guess I should know better than to buy out of season fruit...
>>>
>>> big pictures, a bit rude...
>>>
>>> Lardy
>>>
>>> Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc
>>> (Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)
>>>
>>> http://www.littlefatwino.com/
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