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September 2023
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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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Provincial quarantine program working

January 20, 2021 byPeter Mitham

Seasonal workers and farm businesses continue to benefit from the province’s publicly funded quarantine program, which covers the cost of meals and accommodations for incoming foreign workers during their mandatory self-isolation period.

The program remains in place despite a federal requirement since January 7 for all international arrivals to test negative for COVID-19 prior to boarding a flight.

Recognizing the burden this could place on in-bound seasonal workers, arrivals from Mexico, the Caribbean and several other countries in the Americas were allowed to use the results of tests conducted within 96 hours (four days) of departure.

However, the standard rule of 72 hours (three days) now applies to all travellers save those from Barbadoes, the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. The final exceptions expire January 21.

The implementation of the new requirement with just 24 hours notice prevented several workers from coming to Canada. However, the majority have been landing with little delay.

Nevertheless, the province announced this week that 14 seasonal workers have tested positive for COVID-19 since the beginning of January. Of these, five have been cleared to work on farms while nine remain in isolation pending negative test results.

“Had we not had the self-isolation program in place, these workers would have gone to separate farms and posed a transmission risk to other farm workers, possibly causing multiple different community outbreaks,” the BC Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries said in a statement to Country Life in BC.

While no community outbreaks were associated with farms last year, surging case counts in BC over the holidays as well as in provinces across Canada have put authorities and communities on edge. Several jurisdictions have enacted strict lockdowns, including curfews, to curb the pandemic’s second wave. The measures have disrupted supply chains and businesses as people’s patience with restrictions wears thin.

BC has seen few of the restrictions seen elsewhere, even as daily case counts surged above levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic. The number of new cases reported daily is now nearly half what it was on November 27, when 911 cases were reported.

“We have been able to help preserve our province’s food supply by ensuring local food continues to be grown and harvested throughout the pandemic,” the ministry said of its quarantine program, which has cost in excess of $10 million. “The program is regarded as best practice by other jurisdictions and the province is continuing with the self-isolation program for 2021 without significant changes.”

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