Salt Spring Island farm organizations are protesting the August 22 conviction of a local resident for keeping crowing roosters. Neighbours’ complaints that roosters kept by CJ McNichol and Alia Elaraj on Salt Spring Island were a nuisance resulted in bylaw enforcement officers from the Capital Regional District launch an investigation of the couple in 2022. …
Moderate potato crop expected
Lower Mainland potato crops are expected to come in below average this year thanks to a late spring and an early start to fall. Rod Burr of Burr Farms in Ladner put 200 acres of potatoes in this year, but he’s not expecting the same high yields that were seen last year. “The yield will …
Peach report bullish on future opportunities
KELOWNA – Fred Steele remembers the sound of peach trees cracking in the cold. “They were going off like a rifle shot,” the former BC Fruit Growers Association president recalls. “The temperature had dropped quickly in the fall of 2007 and there was still sap in the trunks that froze and the trees just spilt …
BC Tree gets credit protection
BC Tree Fruits Cooperative has sought protection from creditors under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), with a court-appointed monitor overseeing next steps for the troubled fruit marketer. The application to BC Supreme Court on August 12 came as the co-op struggles with cash flow issues and low estimates from growers of apple deliveries this …
BC Veg denies greenhouse application
Ontario-based greenhouse grower Mucci Farms has had its application to market produce in BC denied by the BC Vegetable Marketing Commission. Mucci currently supplies produce to the BC market as a wholesaler through Country Fresh Produce Inc. of Delta. Mucci’s application to be a marketer, originally submitted May 29 and subsequently amended prior to final …
Dairy quota increases
Strong demand for milk is leading to a quota increase for producers across Western Canada. Producers in BC and the other three provinces within the Western Milk Pool will receive a 2% increase to their daily quota effective September 1. “This increase in daily quota is being issued to meet the continued strong demand in …