{"id":146,"date":"2014-04-08T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupvegco.com\/WP\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2019-04-02T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:21:58","slug":"production","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/expertise\/production\/","title":{"rendered":"Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With our large production capacity and state-of-the-art warehouses, we are able to supply vegetables to the major North American food chains year-round.<\/p>\n<p>Groupe Vegco is an important grower of onions and carrots in Quebec.\u00a0We have 2,000 acres of rich black cultivated soil in the Monteregie region of Quebec.\u00a0Our vegetable production also includes garlic, garlic flowers, celery-root, turnip cabbage, beet, radish and rhubarb.<\/p>\n<p>Our 12 affiliated growers are family businesses that constantly innovate with the aim of reducing pesticide use.\u00a0All our growers also participate in the\u00a0<b><a title=\"Research and Development\" href=\"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/WP\/en\/expertise\/research-and-development\/\">PRISME Consortium<\/a><\/b>, an early user of the sterile fly.<\/p>\n<p>To improve our production output, we undertake considerable researching and testing on new varieties of seeds. Certain crops are started in greenhouses in order to quickly provide a new harvest.\u00a0To ensure unparalleled freshness, the cold chain begins as soon as the vegetables are out of the fields.\u00a0They are immediately cooled in our\u00a0<a title=\"Storage\" href=\"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/WP\/en\/expertise\/storage\/\"><b>high-<\/b><\/a><b><a title=\"Storage\" href=\"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/WP\/en\/expertise\/storage\/\">performance warehouses<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Groupe Vegco\u2019s production capacity<br \/>\n<\/span>Yellow and red onions: 53 million lb<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Regular and coloured carrots: 23 million lb<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our large production capacity and state-of-the-art warehouses, we are able to supply vegetables to the major North American food chains year-round. Groupe Vegco is an important grower of onions and carrots in Quebec.\u00a0We have 2,000 acres of rich black cultivated soil in the Monteregie region of Quebec.\u00a0Our vegetable production also includes garlic, garlic flowers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-production.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9332,"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/9332"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupevegco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}