Coldstream Ranch sells land to Quebec-based salad maker VERNON – Coldstream Ranch, east of Vernon, has sold 700 acres to Canada’s largest vegetable grower. Quebec-based VegPro International Inc. bought the south-facing site to grow baby greens for its Fresh Attitude brand of salad packs. The deal also gives it land to build a 72,000-square-foot processing …
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New year, new start
Six months after wildfire tore through their Princeton ranch, the Schneiders are ready to rebuild PRINCETON – Quentin Schneider had headed into Princeton on July 7 to fetch a part for his mower, which had broken down as equipment tends to do on the first day of haying. The skies were clear and his wife …
Body cams are out
CHILLIWACK – BC’s privacy watchdog has rejected a bid to outfit farm workers with body cameras intended to reduce livestock abuse, saying companies need to follow specific protocols before they do so. An undercover video by Mercy for Animals – the same activist group that used hidden cameras to secure footage of animal abuse at …
Producers take concerns to Victoria
VICTORIA – Keeping farm operations environmentally and financially sustainable were key to the case farm leaders made for the industry when they met with government officials in Victoria at the beginning of November. Big enough now to span two days, BC Agriculture Day is a biennial networking event that attracted close to 80 participants from …
Cattlemen speak out about groundwater licensing debacle
KAMLOOPS – Kevin Boon, general manager of the BC Cattlemen’s Association (BCCA), is calling the Ministry of Environment (MOE) to task for its inept handling of groundwater licensing. “It’s been a fiasco from the start. It has been utter chaos and it has been, I would say, the biggest example of bureaucratic mishandling that I …
Property assessments set for major shift after fires
VICTORIA – BC Assessment Authority staff continue to comb through data and identify properties damaged by this summer’s wildfires in advance of issuing assessment notices at the end of December. “We’re continuing to identify new properties as we speak,” Duane Bates, acting vice- president of assessment with the authority told Country Life in BC last …