Marketable Produce Wasting In Fields
February 12, 2015 | 1 min to read
SASKATOON – Canadians appear to be quite choosy when it comes to purchasing produce. Once fruit and vegetables hit the supermarket, most of the less desirable has been graded out.
Producers in the country are held to a certain standard by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency; however it’s the consumers’ standards that keep most of this produce out of the grocery aisle.
“Sometimes I feel that we’ve gotten a little bit spoiled,” says Doug Waterer, a vegetable crops specialist at the University of Saskatchewan.
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