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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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FV flood protection funded

June 21, 2023 byPeter Mitham

Fraser Valley farmers are eligible for $5 million in funding under a flood mitigation program announced by the province in March as part of a $200 million food security package.

“Individual farms will become more resilient through projects that improve feed and fuel storage, increase erosion control, develop natural buffers and, very importantly, raise farm equipment, feeding stations and electrical drainage or water systems,” said BC agriculture minister Pam Alexis, announcing the funding at Windberry Farms in Abbotsford on June 20.

Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC is administering the program, which also includes $15 million for community organizations, local and First Nations governments to undertake projects related to ecosystem health such as culvert improvements, embankment stabilization, and crop diversification to enhance soil resiliency.

“These projects will reduce the risk of flooding to the broader community and support shared values in protecting and restoring fish habitat,” Alexis says.

Alexis said the funding would protect the livelihoods of farm families and food security while supporting partnerships between farm organizations, local governments and First Nations to prepare for future flooding on the scale of the November 2021 event.

“The experiences during that time were terrible,” she said. “[But] we’ve been building back together ever since.”

Successful projects are eligible for up to $200,000 in funding, covering 90% of project costs. This means at least 25 farms will benefit, though Alexis said if demand for the program is strong the province will consider additional funding.

“We can look at that and see how popular it becomes. We can review the numbers after we get some sense of how popular it becomes,” Alexis said. “We’ve had a number of different programs launch in the past couple of months and the uptake has been swift, there’s no question … so we will review this just as we will review the other programs with respect to the caps.”

The program is one of a number of initiatives announced in recent months targeting flood mitigation and infrastructure. Alexis hosted cabinet colleagues for an announcement at her ministry’s officers in Abbotsford on April 28 where $3.2 million was pledged for improvements to the Barrowtown pump station with an additional $5.3 million for nine other projects as part of the Sumas River Flood Mitigation Collaborative Framework, which itself received $4 million.

In addition, the first phase of Abbotsford’s long-term flood mitigation strategy is holding open houses this week while funding is sought for the first $800 million phase of the project.

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