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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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Northwest floods mobilize farmers

Dena Leier of Graham Acres Homestead and Creamery in Terrace. FACEBOOK

May 18, 2023 byKate Ayers

While the northeast of the province deals with fire, the BC River Forecast Centre upgraded its flood warning for the Skeena and Bulkey Rivers, which include the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan territories, Telkwa, Smithers, Hazelton, Kispiox and Terrace.

For farmers living in the Skeena Region, especially along riversides, the past week’s unseasonably hot weather presents a significant flood risk. Daytime highs have been 10oC to 15oC above seasonal values, accelerating snowmelt and runoff.

Dena Leier of Graham Acres Homestead and Creamery in Terrace received a flood alert late on May 16, triggering a mobilization plan if the flood waters rise much further on her nine-acre property.

“We’re working with other farms that have higher properties to get our goats into a safe zone,” Leier says. “We’ve got everyone on red alert at the moment.”

Leier and her husband Brad have 12 milking goats, bees, layers, pigs and cows on their property that may need to be relocated in the next day or so.

The farm also producers garlic, and Leier hopes the waters don’t flood out the crop.

“Not only do we have to worry about the river rising, but we have an aquifer under our property,” she adds. “When the rivers that we see rise, so do the aquifers. … We’re just waiting to see gushers coming out of the ground as the water levels become high.”

Leier says this year’s river levels are reaching those of 2021, the worst she’s seen, and they continue to rise.

“It’s still hot, unprecedented heat. And so, we’re kind of just checking every three to four hours and then reassessing,” she says. “Not only that, but we can also still see the snow in the mountains and it’s still melting. And you know, we’re supposed to see a cool off if you will, as of today, but the next two days are really hot.”

Fortunately, the couple have great support in their small farming community with local producers ready and waiting for a call to move animals.

“It makes these scary times a little less scary because you’ve got people coming in bringing food, offering support in any way possible,” Leier says. “It feels good that we’re not just on an island by ourselves.”

 

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