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MARCH 2023
Vol. 109 Issue 3

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The province remained short on details Thursday as it repeated an announcement it plans to invest $5 million in a new animal disease preparedness and response program. “This investment will provide BC farmers and ranchers with the support to plan and respond quicker and better to disease outbreaks,” said BC agriculture minister Pam Alexis, who was joined by MLAs from Langley East, Chilliwack and Chilliwack-Kent at Canadian Organic Feeds in Chilliwack.

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The province remained short on details Thursday as it repeated an announcement it plans to invest $5 million in a new animal disease preparedness and response program. “This investment will provide BC farmers and ranchers with the support to plan and respond quicker and better to disease outbreaks,” said BC agriculture minister Pam Alexis, who was joined by MLAs from Langley East, Chilliwack and Chilliwack-Kent at Canadian Organic Feeds in Chilliwack.

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With the stroke of a pen, BC has officially entered into a new agreement with the federal government that will see more than $140 million invested over the next five years in “strategic” agricultural initiatives. The money represents a 25% increase of about $29 million over the previous funding agreement, which ends on March 31. “This partnership will support our government’s focus on food security for all British Columbians while investing significantly in BC farmers, producers and processors,” says BC agriculture minister Pam Alexis. The agreement was signed earlier today, during federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s visit to the province. ... See MoreSee Less

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Bilateral agreement signed

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BC will see an additional $29 million over five years from the federal government when the new agricultural policy framework debuts April 1. A new bilateral agreement between the provincial and…
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BC farmers and producers have until June 30 to register for AgriStability, pay their fees and secure coverage under the program. AgriStability provides support to growers with large financial declines caused by production losses as a result of extreme weather, disease outbreak (such as avian influenza) and increased costs or declining market conditions. About 2,100 BC farmers enroll in the program annually. For more information or to enrol, visit www.gov.bc.ca/AgriStability

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BC farmers and producers have until June 30 to register for AgriStability, pay their fees and secure coverage under the program. AgriStability provides support to growers with large financial declines caused by production losses as a result of extreme weather, disease outbreak (such as avian influenza) and increased costs or declining market conditions. About 2,100 BC farmers enroll in the program annually. For more information or to enrol, visit www.gov.bc.ca/AgriStability

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A new provincial agricultural extension program is in the works, and hopes are high it heralds a fresh start for regional agricultural support in BC. Set to launch this spring, the program intends to increase engagement with producers, with a focus on climate mitigation, adaption and overall sustainability.

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Provincial extension service coming

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A new provincial extension service is in the works, an initiative applauded at an Agri-Extension and Research event organized by the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District and held at the BC Ministry of...
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A planned food hub in the Kootenay Boundary region could be a reality this fall after three years of planning, supporting local meat processing capacity in the southern Interior. “We have settled on a butcher hub with two components, a dedicated space for cut-and-wrap with Magnum Meats as the tenant and a value-added meat processing area with a smokehouse and sausage-making equipment available for daily rental," says Vicki Gee, who sits on the food hub committee. The story appears in our March edition and we've uploaded it to our website.

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Butcher hub moves ahead after three years

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ROCK CREEK – A planned food hub in the Kootenay Boundary region could be a reality this fall after three years of planning, supporting local meat processing capacity in the southern Interior.
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National celebration of agriculture

No electricity? No problem for Harold Tichenor of Sunpower Farm in Skookumchuk, north of Cranbrook. With his wife, Jessica, he has embraced living and farming off the grid. SUBMITTED

February 15, 2023 byPeter Mitham

A national initiative designed to celebrate Canada’s food producers marks its seventh year today.

Canada’s Agriculture Day, February 15, was initiated in 2017 by the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity, which also leads the online forum Agriculture More Than Ever.

Designed to celebrate Canadian agriculture, food and everyone who works in the industry, the national initiative has secured recognition from the federal government, which regularly issues a statement honouring the service of producers.

“Despite huge challenges, our producers continue to feed the world by caring for their land and their animals,” federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says. “They show vision and ambition. They are adapting their practices to meet the demands of consumers around the world while addressing climate change to ensure they can leave behind sustainable, productive and competitive businesses for future generations.”

Bibeau notes that Canada is the world’s fifth largest exporter of agriculture, agri-food, and seafood products, collectively reporting annual revenues of close to $135 billion and accounting for 6.8% of Canada’s GDP.

On the home front, domestic production ensures that Canadians continue to pay relatively little for their food despite the sticker-shock many shoppers have faced over the past year.

Last week, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture marked Food Freedom Day on February 9. The day indicates when the average household has earned enough to pay for a year’s worth of groceries. Despite rising food prices, this year’s data was just one day after last year’s.

“For many, the ‘average Canadian’ that the Food Freedom Day metric describes does not portray their experiences and struggles with rising food prices,” CFA said in a statement. “Lower-income Canadian households are facing a heavier burden when it comes to rising food costs.”

It added that farmers are also struggling, because retail prices don’t reflect farmgate receipts even as their “costs of production [have] increased tremendously over the past two years, with many of their largest expenses, such as fertilizer and diesel, rising nearly 100%.”

“With food prices rising consistently and more quickly than overall inflation, we cannot ignore the challenges that many Canadians are facing,” CFA president Mary Robinson said.

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