New season

A local Quebec grower brought in some beautiful romaine lettuce he grew under polyester row covers.  Although there is relatively small volume of this kind of crop, it is a harbinger of the coming season.  Most of the early crops of lettuce and indeed any local veg go to the Montreal market, since the wholesalers will pay as much as it costs them to get the same crops from California.  US companies already have local produce and will not pay a premium for Canadian.  So until the Canadian wholesalers and Chain Stores are overwhelmed by local growers, only a few export oriented farmers will take the lower returns offered by US buyers.