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The Great Spallumcheen Farm & Food Festival and North Okanagan Plowing Match is happening this Sunday, September 24 from 10-3 at Fieldstone Organics, 4851 Schubert Rd, Armstrong. The outdoor festival features tastings and a market brimming with local food and beverage vendors, a horse and tractor plowing competition and vintage farm equipment displays. ... See MoreSee Less

The Great Spallumcheen Farm & Food Festival and North Okanagan Plowing Match is happening this Sunday, September 24 from 10-3 at Fieldstone Organics, 4851 Schubert Rd, Armstrong. The outdoor festival features tastings and a market brimming with local food and beverage vendors, a horse and tractor plowing competition and vintage farm equipment displays.
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The top five issues the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity identified in a recent survey were the cost of food, inflation, the cost of energy, keeping healthy food affordable and the Canadian economy. “We are seeing that environmental concerns are not in the top 10,” says Amy Peck, manager of the Canadian Cattle Association’s public and stakeholder engagement program. “If you are concerned about being able to afford to feed your family, the environment becomes less important.” ... See MoreSee Less

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VERNON – Ranchers might be concerned about how the public sees their industry, but a producer-funded team at the Canadian Cattle Association has their back. Amy Peck, manager of the Canadian Cattle...
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BC Tree Fruit Co-op has sold its Lake Country packing house as part of its long-term plan to consolidate operations. The sale, to an undisclosed buyer, closed on August 31, 2023 for $15.8 million. ... See MoreSee Less

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BC Tree Fruit Co-op has sold its Lake Country packing house as part of its long-term plan to consolidate operations. The sale, to an undisclosed buyer, closed on August 31, 2023 for $15.8 million.
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Who bought it ffs ?

Ted Nedjelski Karen Turner

One of my first jobs was apple grading in a packing plant in Vernon

Vivian, is this where you worked?

I’d hear the company that owns the big Cannabis company that owns the green houses all around this packing plant was buying up everything around to expand. Wonder if it’s them that got it.

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The federal government has committed $1.81 million over the next three years to support the BC Poultry Association's preparation for direct participation in responses to future outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the province. “The persistence of the virus in wildlife and recurrence of outbreaks globally, presents additional risks during the migratory bird season in North America later in 2023,” the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Vancouver advised in July. For more, visit www.countrylifeinbc.com/ai-risk-rises-with-fall/ ... See MoreSee Less

The federal government has committed $1.81 million over the next three years to support the BC Poultry Associations preparation  for direct participation in responses to future outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the province. “The persistence of the virus in wildlife and recurrence of outbreaks globally, presents additional risks during the migratory bird season in North America later in 2023,” the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Vancouver advised in July. For more, visit https://www.countrylifeinbc.com/ai-risk-rises-with-fall/
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Dry fall, wet winter ahead

October 12, 2022 byPeter Mitham

A long, dry fall may be just what many growers caught out by the late spring wanted, but the warm, sunny weather prompted provincial authorities to raise the drought rating in many parts of the province to the highest level last week.

The Lower Mainland, Sunshine Coast and Western Vancouver Island are all now at Level 5 drought, which means adverse impacts are “almost certain.”

A further seven regions are at Level 4, when adverse impacts are likely. These regions include eastern Vancouver Island, the Kettle and three basins in the Peace as well as Fort Nelson.

It’s a marked shift from a year ago, when October was well on its way to logging what proved to be twice the usual amount of rain for the month.

While last year’s rainfall replenished groundwater in many regions, the absence of rain this fall has raised fears that plants will be less prepared for the onset of colder temperatures.

Alexis Arthur of Pacific Forage Bag Supply in Delta says dry weather is what many forage corn growers dreamed of. Some planted as late as July 14, which in a normal season would mean an incredibly short window for maturing the crop.

This year, growers who went with the flow and allowed their crops to mature in the hopes of a dry autumn have been repaid handsomely.

“Corn that wouldn’t be as tall as it was, was,” she says.

But the long season comes with a cost.

“There’s always some form of payment,” Arthur says. “Many who are putting in cover crops, because they realize they have the opportunity to, because they may need more tonnage based on what’s been happening over the last couple of seasons … it’s very dry.”

But the weather has its own cycles, even if those cycles are becoming more extreme and variable, and Arthur says the rains will come. It’s just a question of when, and with what intensity.

“The wet’s coming; it’s just how much will come and in how short a time,” she says.

She expects everything will be filled up by next spring, but depending on how the rain arrives, some farmers could find half their fields flooded.

Current forecasts call for relatively dry weather through next week, with the 90-day outlook calling for the firs half of winter to be wetter than average.

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