Mushrooms add value to cut blocks
Slash offers growing opportunities in the Kootenays
KASLO – They may not be ready to harvest until 2022 but mushrooms may soon catch the eye of hikers along Kaslo’s Wardner Trail. A project to combine forestry and food production championed by Robin Mercy, owner of Mr. Mercy’s Mushrooms, saw the Village of Kaslo grant permission for Mercy to inoculate stumps and logs …
Pushback on plastics recycling
A provincial consultation on expanded producer responsibility for recycling has found scant support for including…
Beef impact bumps up
Western Canada’s beef industry could ride an upward trend over the next decade, according to…
Canada at “negligible risk” for BSE
Canada now holds negligible risk status for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), delegates to the World…
Sector events start growing
This summer could see a revival of agricultural fairs and trade shows, following last week’s…
Core knowledge lands Kelowna grower top award
KELOWNA – Learning from some of the best can help you be one of the…
BC abattoir volume up 30% in 2020
FALKLAND – The impact of COVID-19 on the BC meat sector was a key theme…
Wind machines in Surrey face blowback
SURREY – The BC Farm Industry Review Board received a formal noise complaint on April…
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