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Bragg: Oxford will have more blueberry acreage than New Brunswick has in potatoes
“We're going to have more acres and blueberries than New Brunswick has in potatoes.”
Bragg: Nova Scotia and PEI alone restrict honeybee imports in North America
“So Nova Scotia and PEI are the only jurisdictions in North America that have restrictions.”
Bragg: Oxford processes half of the 300-million-pound wild blueberry industry
“When I started in the industry, the Wild Blue Ray industry was forty million pounds in total, and I hoped to do two of that. And today, the industry is over three hundred million, getting closer to four. And we do half of it.”
Bragg: Eastlink is the largest private telecom company in North America
“I think it's the largest private, yes, by far.”
Bragg: Wild Blueberries Contain Double the Antioxidants of Cultivated Blueberries
“First of all, the health benefits, the antioxidants are double in wild blueberries. The flavor is much better.”
Bragg: European Blueberry Producers Cannot Compete and Are Disappearing
“We have, like, jam manufacturers that one of the biggest in the world is Andros in France, and they'll only use European blueberries, which are a different species again, or our wild blueberries. And Europeans can't compete with us because they're still a cott…”
John Bragg: Environmental rules forced $75k bridge for dry stream
“When you, this particular case, it was a thousand acre woodlot, and we were building roads through it to do silviculture work, great for the future, and I went to see where they put a bridge in, and it wasn't a bridge, but it was half bridge and half rock. It …”
Bragg: First factory ran only 100,000 pounds against two-million-pound capacity
“Having built a factory and all, and geared it up to run two million pounds, and we ran I don't know, a 100,000. There just was no crop.”
Bragg: Honeybee rental is the single largest cost in blueberry farming
“The biggest single cost are the rental of honeybees for pollination.”
Bragg: Honeybee pollination increases blueberry yields to 8,000-9,000 lbs/acre
“I think if you had no honeybees imported and relied on, on local pollinators, you might get a thousand to 1500 pounds. If we use four to five hives, which is considered high, but we can grow 8000 or 9000 pounds.”
Bragg: Oxford Frozen Foods is Canada's largest carrot processor
“We're the largest carrot, certainly carrot processor in Canada, maybe in North America.”
Bragg: Taking Amtelecom Private Removed $3M–$4M in Overhead
“Yeah, and telecom, and southern Ontario, we got some real efficiencies by taking it private, and it, you know, became a branch plant, as compared with a separate head office, separate accounting, separate, I don't know how much, it wasn't that big a company, b…”
Bragg: Eastlink owns fiber connecting Ireland, Bermuda, and across North America
“If you look at our map, we have fiber from Ireland to Bermuda to the east coast, and then we have fiber going west through, through Chicago and Detroit, through Toronto and up north, and all the way to British Columbia, and a lot of this we own.”
Bragg: Eastlink originally bused taped US TV broadcasts across the border
“We built a tower down at Mount Shamcook on the U.S. Border, and we received the Bangor channels there, taped them, put them on the bus, and of course Halifax got them first. By the time we got them in Amherst, they were two weeks old”