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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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Irreparable harm, but no relief

April 13, 2022 byPeter Mitham

The province’s ban on keeping mink has caused irreparable harm to producers, but BC Supreme Court has stopped short of awarding relief.

In a decision rendered March 4 but only published April 8, Justice Carol Ross denied a request by the Canada Mink Breeders Association, British Columbia Mink Producers Association and six farms for an order “suspending the prohibition on breeding or acquiring mink and the requirement to slaughter kits born on mink farms,” pending the outcome of a challenge on the province’s ban on mink farming.

The ban was announced in November, and producers are challenging it in court. Producers hoped to breed their herd and maintain a small quantity of mink – less than 50,000 animals – in the event their challenge of the ban was successful.

“The petitioners submit that any effort to retain breeding herds without the benefits of breeding would result in massive expense with slim or no chance of recovery,” according to court documents.

The province argued that the petitioners had “failed to advance a serious question to be tried.” It also claimed that mink producers had failed to demonstrate any irreparable harm from the ban.

Ross dismissed the province’s claims, noting an affidavit from Joseph Williams of the BC Mink Producers Association that detailed how replacing top-quality breeding stock takes many years and is not simply a case of going to the market and picking up new animals.

However, she denied the request for an order allowing breeding to proceed this spring given the public health risk mink pose as “the leading domesticated animal reservoir of the virus.”

“The pandemic requires proactive and speedy action by the government and that sometimes this will entail significant economic consequences,” Ross wrote in her decision.

Despite those economic consequences, the province says it will not compensate farmers for losses suffered as a result of the ban on their operations.

However, in December it told producers it was willing to work with the federal government to provide AgriRecovery funding to assist with the decommissioning of farms.

No funding program has been announced.

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