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Food security funding welcomed

March 8, 2023

While the provincial budget has yet to be receive approval in the legislature, the province…

Animal activists target abattoir

March 1, 2023

Video footage from surveillance cameras installed at Meadow Valley Meats in Pitt Meadows is underscoring…

Carbon tax rebate announced

March 1, 2023

This week’s provincial budget delivered on a long-time wish of the agriculture sector by nixing…

Federal tax targets homes

March 1, 2023

Concerns are growing that a new federal tax designed to curb foreign speculation on residential…

Filling a market for fresh corn in Chase

March 1, 2023

CHASE – Who hasn’t tucked into a cob of sweet, juicy corn during a warm…

Kale acreage on fast track

March 1, 2023

DELTA – Kale was the fastest-growing vegetable in BC by acreage in 2022, according to…

Farmers question regenerative ag agenda

March 1, 2023

ABBOTSFORD – A new strategic framework for regenerative agriculture and agritech marked Pam Alexis’s first…

Butcher hub moves ahead after three years

March 1, 2023

ROCK CREEK – A planned food hub in the Kootenay Boundary region could be a…

Province looks beyond timber

February 22, 2023

The province announced $25 million on February 15 to support the creation of eight additional…

Organic growth in sight

February 22, 2023

Seventeen candidates have stepped forward to produce organic milk in BC as part of the…

Weather-driven fruit shortfalls

February 22, 2023

New tools are helping growers anticipate and assess the impact of weather on their plants,…

Avian influenza threat looms

February 15, 2023

The latest date for a case of avian influenza during a winter outbreak in BC…

BC snowpack declines

February 15, 2023

Despite the grey and rainy days of BC in the wintertime, the snowpack on mountain…

National celebration of agriculture

February 15, 2023

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

TJ Schur to lead IAF

February 8, 2023

A new CEO has been hired to lead the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC. TJ…

FARM NEWS UPDATE

September 2, 2026

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Forty-six regions in BC are eligible to participate in the federal livestock tax deferral program, announced yesterday, more than anywhere else in the country. The program allows producers who downsize their breeding herds by 15% to defer reporting the proceeds until the following year, when they buy replacement stock. But after multiple years of drought, the BC beef herd is cruising 25-year lows and some producers are calling for more support to maintain and rebuild their herds. For more, see: [www.countrylifeinbc.com/bc-leads-livestock-tax-deferrals/]

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After weeks and weeks of no moisture, there's rain in Kelowna today. While much more moisture is needed over the coming weeks and months to reduce drought conditions and the air smells of wet campfire, the slow, steady rain is very welcome for fruit grower#BCAg#BCAg ... See MoreSee Less

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The first Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust Grassland Set-aside Variety Trial Field Day was held at Delta's family-owned Tecarte Farms, August 27. Co-owner Bill Bates and DFWT executive director Christine Schmalz welcomed more than 35 people to view seven acres planted to different grassland blends specifically chosen to rejuvenate the soil and support the farm's blueberries. For the Bates family, it was time to try something different following the decline of the field's blueberry bushes over the past several years. "We tried everything, and nothing worked," says Bates. The blueberries were removed in May and the grassland crops planted about a week later.

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Bessette Creek is the latest watershed hit with a temporary fish protection order this year as the province moves to protect returning Chinook salmon. A total of 131 surface and groundwater users must cease drawing water immediately, with forage producers, greenhouses and nurseries impacted. "Declining flows in Bessette Creek reached record lows in early July 2026 and have remained below the minimum level required to support fish population survival," says the province. Bessette producers have embraced voluntary cutbacks, scheduled irrigation and other measures to reduce water use, and are also waiting on funding to boost water storage infrastructure. They're the second group of producers hit with a provincial order this year. Salmon River irrigators were told to top watering earlier this month following a reprieve to address wildfire risk. Growers in both the Salmon River and Bessette watersheds are urging the province to support new water storage infrastructure in advance of next year.

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There is a problem... having lived in the salmon river ( silver creek ) area, I remember a fish biologist telling family members that salmon only "survive" in high iron content creeks, they do not "thrive".... salmon river ( silver creek ) is a very high iron content, would stain clothes brown when i would use bleach... So don't expect high salmon numbers off of that creek , even in ideal situations...

I just wish they would take an interest in CHASE CREEK....went bone dry...100% of trout abd other species died...smell was terrible from rotting fish. Understand this has happened many times in the past. Chase Irrigation District totally responsible for this disaster. Now fishermen are complaining about major drop in water levels at Pillar Lake.

They could not mismanage things worse than they have. It's impossible for them to. The fact that farmers that we need for our animals are now suffering the consequences our governments have not protected us from, is absolutely fucking wild.