CAN-USA 2025 Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

[AmmoTech90]

A good chunk of Medicine Hat is already glassed over and the concept is spreading. It has also spread to the Lower Mainland market gardens.

Those are actually green houses in Redcliff, just outside Medicine Hat. There are more in Medicine Hat and just outside along Highway 3 (Big Marble Farms if you ever see that on packaging). In Redcliff there is also a coop business, Redhat, that packages local veggies for around the country. The greenhouses close down from Dec to Feb/March to change out growing medium and reduce cost as you still have to heat the place. A few of the green houses have links to Mexico and import cukes and tomatoes to package in Redhat.
The nice thing is that some of the green houses have sell rooms where you can pick up a large bag of veggies for cheap. Especially peppers.

 

[JLB50]

I’m finding all of this to be quite exciting news. Even if the greenhouses can’t provide year-round produce, it would be a huge benefit for Canada, both economically and in quality of life. I even read somewhere that greenhouses are being considered for the Far North for at least part of the year.

 

[Kirkhill]

Those are actually green houses in Redcliff, just outside Medicine Hat. There are more in Medicine Hat and just outside along Highway 3 (Big Marble Farms if you ever see that on packaging). In Redcliff there is also a coop business, Redhat, that packages local veggies for around the country. The greenhouses close down from Dec to Feb/March to change out growing medium and reduce cost as you still have to heat the place. A few of the green houses have links to Mexico and import cukes and tomatoes to package in Redhat.
The nice thing is that some of the green houses have sell rooms where you can pick up a large bag of veggies for cheap. Especially peppers.

You are right. It was actually the ones on Hwy 3 I was looking for. Google Earth skills not what they might be.

 

[Kirkhill]

Those are actually green houses in Redcliff, just outside Medicine Hat. There are more in Medicine Hat and just outside along Highway 3 (Big Marble Farms if you ever see that on packaging). In Redcliff there is also a coop business, Redhat, that packages local veggies for around the country. The greenhouses close down from Dec to Feb/March to change out growing medium and reduce cost as you still have to heat the place. A few of the green houses have links to Mexico and import cukes and tomatoes to package in Redhat.
The nice thing is that some of the green houses have sell rooms where you can pick up a large bag of veggies for cheap. Especially peppers.

Correction time for me - Redcliff, the one I showed previously at 11 O'Clock on the Trans Canada and Big Marble at 6 O'Clock under the SW approach to the airport. And if you look around the area you will find a few other smaller ones. Each circle represents a quarter section of 160 acres, for scale.

Thanks @AmmoTech90

 

[dapaterson]

I’m finding all of this to be quite exciting news. Even if the greenhouses can’t provide year-round produce, it would be a huge benefit for Canada, both economically and in quality of life. I even read somewhere that greenhouses are being considered for the Far North for at least part of the year.

Cheap reliable power is needed. If only Canada had uranium deposits to fuel small reactors.

 

[ModlrMike]

Cheap reliable power is needed. If only Canada had uranium deposits to fuel small reactors.

Yes, and if they use CANDU technology, we don't even need to enrich the uranium, plus we can do in-place refuelling.

 

[PrairieFella]

Cheap reliable power is needed. If only Canada had uranium deposits to fuel small reactors.

If only there was a consortium of Canadian provinces working on exactly that.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

We've been big in the crops under cover game for 100 years here. The biggest greenhouse operation in North America. We do three crops a year. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, etc. We can strip out a greenhouse and be replanted in a week. We have an insect industry that grows bees, ladybugs and other predatory insects, specifically for green houses. We use produced CO2 by the ton. And electricity, lots and lots of electricity. One thing you get with a concentration of greenhouses is light pollution. Our greenhouses light up the sky and it can be seen 60km away.

We've made progress on the energy front. Some of the operations are turning their organic waste into methane that heats the greenhouses Some operations use no natural gas at all. Completely self sufficient, including their homes on the property.

Why Canada Has the Largest Greenhouse Hub in North America—And Why the US Doesn’t

Discover why Leamington, Ontario, dominates North America's greenhouse industry, exploring currency arbitrage, labor costs, energy, and logistics.

www.agritecture.com

 

[Czech_pivo]

We've been big in the crops under cover game for 100 years here. The biggest greenhouse operation in North America. We do three crops a year. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, etc. We can strip out a greenhouse and be replanted in a week. We have an insect industry that grows bees, ladybugs and other predatory insects, specifically for green houses. We use produced CO2 by the ton. And electricity, lots and lots of electricity. One thing you get with a concentration of greenhouses is light pollution. Our greenhouses light up the sky and it can be seen 60km away.

We've made progress on the energy front. Some of the operations are turning their organic waste into methane that heats the greenhouses Some operations use no natural gas at all. Completely self sufficient, including their homes on the property.

Why Canada Has the Largest Greenhouse Hub in North America—And Why the US Doesn’t

Discover why Leamington, Ontario, dominates North America's greenhouse industry, exploring currency arbitrage, labor costs, energy, and logistics.

www.agritecture.com

I noticed those lights on my way to Windsor Thursday evening on the 401 just as I was passing Hwy 77 off to my left.

 

[PrairieFella]

Going into Princess Auto is, for me, almost like being a kid in a candy shop.

You should see the plans for the new Super Princess Auto across the street from their headquarters in Winnipeg. Like triple the size of a normal PA haha.

 

[lenaitch]

I’m finding all of this to be quite exciting news. Even if the greenhouses can’t provide year-round produce, it would be a huge benefit for Canada, both economically and in quality of life. I even read somewhere that greenhouses are being considered for the Far North for at least part of the year.

I saw something about that, I can remember which northern community. Energy costs and available daylight (or even more energy to mimic it) are hurdles.