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JUNE 2023
Vol. 109 Issue 6

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It’s been four years since the last tulip festival was held in Abbotsford, but this year’s event promises to be an even bigger spectacle than ever. Spanning 27 acres along Marion Road, Lakeland Flowers will display more than 70 varieties of the spring blossom, including fringe tulips and double tulips, the first of six months of flower festivals hosted by the farm. Writer Sandra Tretick spoke with Lakeland Flowers owner Nick Warmerdam this spring to find out how the floods on Sumas Prairie in 2021 have had an impact on his business plan as he transitions from wholesale cut flower grower to agri-tourism. We've posted the story to our website this month. It's a good read.

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Tulip grower makes the shift to agritourism

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ABBOTSFORD – On a bright sunny day in early April, Nick Warmerdam points out his office window at No. 4 and Marion roads to a spot about half a kilometre away across the Trans-Canada Highway.
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The province is allocating $15 million to be administered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC. for a perennial crop replant program benefitting tree fruit, hazelnut, berry and grape growers. The program aims to cover 100% of plant removal costs and 75% of replanting costs. Funds are also available for sector development. The new program replaces a suite of sector-specific replant programs and recognizes the importance of sector adaptation in the face of market, disease and weather challenges. ... See MoreSee Less

The province is allocating $15 million to be administered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC. for a perennial crop replant program benefitting tree fruit, hazelnut, berry and grape growers. The program aims to cover 100% of plant removal costs and 75% of replanting costs. Funds are also available for sector development. The new program replaces a suite of sector-specific replant programs and recognizes the importance of sector adaptation in the face of market, disease and weather challenges.
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Just a week after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials revoked the last primary control zones established in the Fraser Valley to control last fall’s outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, a new detection on April 29 at a commercial premises in Chilliwack underscored the risk of a spring wave. This is the first new detection since January 22, also in Chilliwack, and brings to 104 the number of premises affected since the current outbreak began April 13, 2022. The disease has impacted 3.7 million birds in BC over the past year. ... See MoreSee Less

Just a week after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials revoked the last primary control zones established in the Fraser Valley to control last fall’s outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, a new detection on April 29 at a commercial premises in Chilliwack underscored the risk of a spring wave. This is the first new detection since January 22, also in Chilliwack, and brings to 104 the number of premises affected since the current outbreak began April 13, 2022. The disease has impacted 3.7 million birds in BC over the past year.
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The province is contributing $3.2 million for upgrades to the Barrowtown pump station in Abbotsford that was overwhelmed during the November 2021 flooding on Sumas Prairie, part of a collaborative approach to flood mitigation in the region. During a press conference at the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food offices in Abbotsford today, the province said a collaborative approach that includes First Nations is needed as Abbotsford pursues a comprehensive flood mitigation strategy due to the potential impacts on Indigenous lands. Agriculture's interests will be represented by technical teams within the agriculture ministry. ... See MoreSee Less

The province is contributing $3.2 million for upgrades to the Barrowtown pump station in Abbotsford that was overwhelmed during the November 2021 flooding on Sumas Prairie, part of a collaborative approach to flood mitigation in the region. During a press conference at the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food offices in Abbotsford today, the province said a collaborative approach that includes First Nations is needed as Abbotsford pursues a comprehensive flood mitigation strategy due to the potential impacts on Indigenous lands. Agricultures interests will be represented by technical teams within the agriculture ministry.
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I sure hope part of that money is to educate the people in charge of the pumps and drainage system! They just relayed on computers and weren’t even physically monitoring the water levels. I’ve lived in the Fraser Valley my whole life and the old guys managing that system know how to do it. The new generation just sit behind computer screens and don’t physically watch the water levels. That system works very well when you do it right. The Fraser river levels are very important. The system is designed to drain the Sumas Canal (the part that runs thru the valley) into the Fraser. When they let it get backed up it put pressure on the dyke and the weak part burst. Simple science. And yes, the dykes need to be worked on too. Abbotsford has not been maintaining properly for years.

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Province pledges emergency funding

4:23 PM In addition to emergency funding announced by the province, Delta South MLA and agriculture critic Ian Paton organized a work party of 12 Delta farmers to help load 265 bales of hay destined for Sageview Ranch in Kamloops for evacuated horses and livestock on the weekend. The hay was donated by Danny Sherrell Farms and trucking was provided by Mike Wolzen Trucking.

August 11, 2021 byKate Ayers And Peter Mitham

BC has announced emergency funding to support farmers and ranchers impacted by wildfires, heat and drought this year.

While the exact amount is undetermined and several details have yet to be worked out, the province has taken the immediate action of invoking the late participation provision of the AgriStability program.

The original deadline was June 30, but that’s been extended until December 31, 2022. Late participants will receive a 20% lower payment than those who enrolled prior to the June 30 enrolment deadline. This lower payment will be partially offset by an increase in interim payments from 50% to 75% of estimated final payments.

Provincial staff tipped the move in discussions with several producer groups at the end of July. While higher interim payments are good news, growers will have to wait “several weeks” from the date of application to receive cash relief.

“We appreciate that government, both provincially and federally, have listened to farmers in BC and across the country and have stepped up to help farmers during a difficult year,” said Danielle Synotte, executive director of the BC Agriculture Council.

However, she said industry encourages BC to increase AgriStability compensation rates from 70% to 80% for the 2021/22 program years. Previous measures authorizing this lapsed at the end of the March.

“We appreciate that BC has been pushing for this change nationally,” says Synotte. “BC needs to continue showing leadership as they have done in the past couple of years and make this change.”

A wildfire emergency feed program will also provide up to two weeks of support for commercial livestock businesses that cannot access their normal feed supply due to ongoing fires. Businesses can also access support if forage has been burned, is unsafe for consumption, or was used earlier in the production cycle than anticipated.

But the program is not intended to supply feed in response to the drought conditions.

A federal-provincial AgriRecovery initiative is also being hammered out to assist farmers and ranchers with recovery costs incurred as a result of this year’s wildfires and drought conditions.

The initiative is funded with $100 million that Ottawa allocated under the AgriRecovery framework announced August 6 to address “the immediate extraordinary costs faced by producers due to the drought and wildfires.” Costs are shared 60-40 with between BC and Ottawa.

A similar program in response to the 2017 wildfires in BC provided $20 million in support to farmers and ranchers, but the province could not pin a value of this year’s program.

The province directs farmers and ranchers to contact their First Nation or local authorities for more information and emergency guidance as these groups are responsible for emergency management decisions in their respective jurisdictions.

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