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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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Provincial extension service coming

February 1, 2023 byPeter Mitham

A new provincial extension service is in the works, an initiative applauded at an Agri-Extension and Research event organized by the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District and held at the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food in Abbotsford on January 27.

The regional extension program will be launched this spring.

It will be a progression of the regional model used by the Climate Change Adaptation Program but be more producer-engaged with applied research, according to a presentation delivered by ACRD agricultural support coordinator Heather Shobe, who led the event.

Dovetailing with provincial priorities, the new program will focus on climate mitigation, adaptation and overall sustainability. Since human and financial resources are considerations, it aims to effectively use its own staff while engaging with allied organizations.

The program remains in development, but Shobe said it promises to fit with the vision of a more integrated approach to regional agricultural support.

ā€œA network approach could be an avenue to ensure that producers and regional actors are co-leaders inĀ development of programs that meet their particular regional needs,ā€ she says.

Other opportunities discussed at the event included reinvigorating the province’s network of farmers institutes.

A meeting of institute representatives took place in 2018 and 2019, but ended with the pandemic. Without a dedicated staff person overseeing the secretariat set up to coordinate linkages between the institutes, the initiative has fallen by the wayside despite a desire to forge closer ties.

However, several speakers at the January 27 event expressed a desire for the institutes to support agriculture in the province’s several regions.

Closer collaboration with the academic community is another opportunity. However, breakout groups said a coordinator is needed to direct the work, similar to farmers institutes.

A third breakout group at the event discussed a whole food system approach that would include both marine and Indigenous foods, not just conventional agriculture.

A total of 22 people attended the event, which was the culmination of a three–year project funded in part by the Vancouver Foundation. A final report is due in the near future.

Shobe said a further three-year program may be considered that builds on the existing work.

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