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OCTOBER 2019
Vol. 105 Issue 10

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ALC cracks down

Pat Jasper …

Bill will rein in activists

BC considers making premises ID mandatory

Bin there, done that

Unsung heroes

The Back Forty: It’s time government changed its narrative

Viewpoint: Banning plastic bags ignores reality

New round of changes coming to land reserve

Hullcar farmers file first NMP plans under new code

Classy champion

Most farmers support Daylight Savings Time

South Vancouver food hub to connect farmers

Egg-splaining

Dunn leaps to dairy sector

UBCO study looks at context for climate change

City Beet harvests profits from urban gardens

Forage trial presents options for producers

Growers step up to continue corn silage trials

Density key to efficient, healthy silage storage

Weather affecting corn trials

Bumper crop pushes down blueberry prices

Valley has protential to be an agritech hub

Ministry working on land use inventory

Join initiatives a priority for feeders

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Canadian beef herd sinks to 30-year low

Familiar challenges face fourth-generation rancher

No-till seeding showcased at field day

Market Musings: Grass-fed cattle come to market with big gains

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Replant, pest support for hazelnut growers

Bright berries

New packing line can handle BC’s pear crop

Mission Hilll aims to be fully organic by 2021

Research: Clean cud promotes dental health in ruminants

Remote market supports growth of local growers

Farm groups exploring food hub opportunities

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Chilliwack farms hopping with insects

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PNE agriculture auction keeps on giving

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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

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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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Most farmers support Daylight Savings Time

People and livestock will adapt, but safety could be at risk

Cows adjust quickly to the seasonal time change, says Matt Laity. SUBMITTED PHOTO

October 2, 2019 byRonda Payne

DELTA—Spring ahead? Fall back? Or just skip the whole thing?

According to a provincial survey of public opinion, nearly 92% of farmers favour a proposal to put the province on Daylight Savings Time year-round.

That’s slightly less than the provincial average, which saw more than 93% of the 223,273 respondents speak out in favour of the proposed change. Just 4% of respondents were farmers, fishers, foresters or hunters.

There’s no timeline for the change, and it’s not a burning issue for Jack Bates of Tecarte Farms in Delta and chair of the BC Blueberry Council.

“It doesn’t matter to me one way or another,” he says. “It might make a difference to farming in that there’s only so many daylight hours. In the north, it might change the start of working times because it might not be light until 9:30 or later.”

People will work with the light they’ve got, says Bates, and it certainly won’t matter to the livestock.

“Let’s face it, everybody gets up in the morning and goes to work and if it’s not light until 8:30, I guess we get more light at the end of the day,” he says. “The cows don’t know the difference, but it does screw them up when you change, so as far as dairy farmers go, it may be a good thing.”

George Martins at Delmar Dairy in Chilliwack thinks doing away with seasonal time changes is a great idea.

“I love it,” he says. “It would probably make things better – an extra hour in the evening for finishing the different chores.”

He isn’t concerned about sunrise coming later at certain times of the year and says it won’t make a difference to farmers like him who get up at 4 am, anyway.

Katie Leek, manager of Emma Lea Farms in Delta, doesn’t see much of an impact one way or the other, though she admits it requires a bit of a shift with livestock when the time springs ahead or falls back. Emma Lea Farms has beef cattle as well as a few chickens and domestic farm animals.

“For our animals, shifting an hour for them is not as complicated as it would be for other livestock farmers,” she says. “I don’t really have an opinion on it; I can see both sides.”

Some dairy farmers, like Matt Laity of Brookfield Farm in Maple Ridge, think the current system should remain.

“It is a hassle, yes, but the option we’re looking at is an after-9 am sunrise in the winter,” he says. “We still live far enough north where the [difference of] summer to winter daylight is significant versus California, where the days are almost always the same.”

He explains that while the cows do need to adjust, it only takes two or three days.

“I give them the two or three days that I need to adjust myself,” he explains. “If I start too early or too late, they look at me funny.”

Bates points out that safety is an issue that’s often overlooked in the debate.

“On those dark dreary days in December and into January, it might not be light until 9:30, so it might be dark when kids are going to school. It might be a safety issue,” he says. “There’s a reason why it changed and everyone’s forgotten that.”

Nevertheless, a majority of survey respondents feel greater daylight in the evening will enhance their evening commute (53%) while 39% noted “other safety concerns” as a reason for supporting the permanent adoption of DST.

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