Grow Vegetables with Virtual Training and Canada's Focus on Trade
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**A new video series by the University of California aims to provide free virtual training in how to grow vegetables, designed to reach younger farmers and those entering the field for the first time.
UC Cooperative Extension specialist Jeff Mitchell says the average age of agricultural producers in California is currently about 59.2 years.
Mitchell says therefore there is an urgent need to encourage and recruit young people into agriculture.
**Canada's new agriculture minister Heath MacDonald says tackling trade issues with China and the U.S. are his most pressing priorities.
The two-front trade war with the world's largest economies has stressed out farmers in Canada, a major canola, wheat and pork exporter, and impacted spring planting plans.
Canada faces tariffs from China on Canadian canola meal and oil, as well as peas, pork and seafood products.
About half of Canada's canola exports go to China.
**A JBS meat-processing plant in Arizona has been fined for worker-safety violations after an employee died there last year.
The JBS Tolleson worker, 55-year-old Eduardo Reyes Hernandez, was caught between his forklift and a tractor that was backing up on November 20th.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner said Hernandez died of blunt-force injuries.
JBS Tolleson was fined $43,786. The tractor drivers company, Trumbull Trucking, was also fined $16,131.
