On-farm projects that provide immediate and direct benefits to individual farms in Langley and the wider agricultural community are the focus of a new series of grants offered through the Langley Sustainable Agricultural Foundation. Research, educational programs and on-farm improvements that support agriculture undertaken by farmers, students and post-secondary institutions are eligible for funding. Grants …
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Site C fund awards grants
Ten projects are receiving more than $175,000 from the compensation fund set up to offset the agricultural impacts of the Site C dam project. Summit Acre Farm in Fort St. John won the largest portion of the latest disbursement, receiving $50,000 to relocate a harvester silo. Hanna Acres, also in Fort St. John, will receive …
Projects receive Site C funds
Nine projects received awards in December from the BC Hydro Peace Agricultural Compensation Fund. UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems received the largest award, $65,470, in support of research on crop disease and pathogens affecting cereal crops in the Peace region. “The project will fill gaps in existing disease surveys of cereal and forage …