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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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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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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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Raspberry growers hold AGM

November 18, 2020 byPeter Mitham

BC’s Raspberry Industry Development Council members convened online this week for its first annual general meeting in 18 months.

The gathering of more than two dozen growers and industry stakeholders was a chance to look back at the past two growing seasons and towards the second half of the current fiscal year, which ends March 31.

Despite the damage a hard frost in February 2019 inflicted on canes, researchers and growers alike came out on an even keel.

Michael Dossett, who oversees breeding activities through BC Berry Cultivar Development Inc., told growers that 4,300 seedlings were evaluated in the field and 88 new selections were made. Four varieties were marked for grower trial on account of various qualities including their ability to be machine harvested, productivity and general superiority to Meeker.

One particular stand-out variety was BC 10-71-27, which emerged largely unscathed by the winter weather that damaged other varieties and went on to deliver the highest yield of the season at 6.3 tonnes per acre. While final performance assessments from the 2020 growing season aren’t complete, it also showed promise this year.

Another promising selection this year and last was BC 1653.7, which attracted the comment, “This tastes like the raspberries I remember when I was a kid.”

“For me, it’s probably the nicest thing somebody could say, because we really do pay attention to flavour,” says Dossett.

The quest for new varieties is important both to renew aging fields and to maintain the competitiveness and profitability of the raspberry sector, which has lost acreage to blueberries and other crops in recent years.

“The future of profitability in our industry is not picking fruit into a drum,” says Dossett. “The stuff that we’re trying to select to move forward in the program is the stuff that’s going to have the quality that it doesn’t just end up in a drum.”

To support new plantings, the industry asked BC Agriculture Minister Lana Popham at Ag Day in Victoria last year for a replant program similar to what exists for tree fruits and hazelnuts.

Despite the challenges facing growers, lower production in 2019 led to a modest 9% drop in levies. This did not have a significant impact on council revenues, which were buoyed by research funding.

The council’s 2020 budget anticipated collecting levies on a harvest of 12.3 million pounds, down from 12.6 million pounds in 2019.

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