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September 2023
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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. ā€œWe are seeing that environmental concerns are not in the top 10,ā€ says Amy Peck, manager of the Canadian Cattle Association’s public and stakeholder engagement program. ā€œIf you are concerned about being able to afford to feed your family, the environment becomes less important.ā€ ... 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 Cattleā...
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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. ā€œThe 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,ā€ 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. ā€œThe 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,ā€ 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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No extension for groundwater

A hawk takes a refreshing break from hunting and the heat, perched on an irrigation system in a farmer's field in Coldstream. PHOTO / FILE

February 3, 2021 byPeter Mitham

Owners of existing non-domestic wells shouldn’t count on any further extensions of the province’s deadline for registering their wells and applying for a groundwater licence free of charge.

ā€œIt is unlikely to change at this point,ā€ said Maria Nguyen, a senior authorizations technician with FrontCounter BC, in a presentation at the Pacific Agriculture Show on January 28.

The province originally set a deadline of March 1, 2019, three years after the new registration and licensing provisions of the Water Sustainability Act took effect. Shortly before the deadline, however, the province extended the waiver on the application fee to March 1, 2022.

Well owners now have until February 28, 2022 to register their wells and obtain a licence without paying fees. However, rents are nevertheless owing on all water used since February 29, 2016, when registration was first required.

Nguyen encouraged producers to apply by deadline, noting that filing an application is critical to determining a user’s priority even if a licence isn’t granted until several months later. The application will give the province a better understanding of the number of existing users, and the demand on the province’s water resources as applications for new wells continue to arrive.

Nguyen pointed applicants seeking more information about their specific wells to [https://apps.nrs.gov.bc.ca/gwells/].

The site allows visitors to search for wells by tag number, property address or even spatially, by zooming in on a map.

 

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