Three new virtual reality tours, filmed throughout 2022 on bean and potato farms and processors, as well as at a broiler breeder farm, have been added to FarmFood360. These new tours join 22 other farm and food processing tours already filmed and available for viewing.
Navy beans from farm to store
The dry bean tour shows a visit to Dave and Amy Arand’s farm near Atwood, Ontario where they grow white pea beans (also known as navy beans). The tour also takes the viewer through the processing of the beans before they get to tables across Canada.
Potatoes from field to potato chips
Viewers can also visit the Vander Zaag family’s potato farm near Alliston, Ontario and then continue on to an Ontario processor to see how potatoes are made into potato chips.
How broiler chickens are hatched and raised
A third virtual tour takes Canadians through a broiler breeder chicken farm and a broiler hatchery. This tour of a chicken barn near Woodstock, Ontario, shows the process of raising hens and roosters, collecting fertilized eggs and hatching chicks that are raised for meat.
The new tours were developed by Farm & Food Care Ontario in partnership with the Ontario Bean Growers, the Ontario Potato Board and the Ontario Broiler Chicken Hatching Egg Producers Association. The project was also funded in part through the AgriCompetitiveness program of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a federal, provincial, territorial initiative.
Check out all 25 virtual reality farm tours on FarmFood360.ca.