Most farmers support Daylight Savings Time
DELTA—Spring ahead? Fall back? Or just skip the whole thing? According to a provincial survey…
Ministry working on land use inventory
WILLIAMS LAKE—Producers used to keeping an eye out for suspicious activity were on alert in…
City Beet harvests profits from urban gardens
VANCOUVER—It’s a sunny afternoon in the Lower Mainland as Maddy Clerk and Elana Evans of…
BC considers making premises ID mandatory
VICTORIA—Since 2011, the BC Ministry of Agriculture has run a voluntary premises identification program for…
New round of changes coming to land reserve
MERVILLE—The next round of changes coming to the Agricultural Land Reserve was announced September 19…
Food-X connects shoppers, farmers
A maxing out of farmers markets and the rise of online grocery shopping has fuelled…
Country Life in BC wins big
Country Life in BC contributors won the lion’s share of photography awards during this year’s…
Seed-saving at risk
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is urging farmers to complete a survey regarding potential changes…
ALC needs local governments
The linchpin of farmland protection in BC is local government, according to the head of…
Raising a stink
Cannabis farms are facing mounting pressure to comply with federal regulations requiring them to have…
Record high pork stocks
Chinese consumers eat 88 pounds of pork a year, more than anyone else in the…
Rains wash away burn bans
The return of wet weather across much of BC has washed away extremely dry conditions…
Grape diversification in play
With the province’s grape harvest set to begin in earnest, a glance at a summary…
ALC steps up compliance efforts
New hires at the Agricultural Land Commission are leading to stronger protections for farmland in…
Kelowna endorses intergenerational farmhouse
A development application in Kelowna will challenge provincial regulations governing residential development within the Agricultural…
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