Ottawa is looking for BC farmers to tell them which way the wind is blowing – literally. Agriculture and Agri-food Canada is seeking agroclimate impact reporters to complete a monthly survey regarding weather conditions in their area. The survey takes less than five minutes to complete and helps federal staff identify climate and weather-related risks …
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Cold weather raises concerns for crops
February has gone down in the record books as the coldest on record, particularly in southern BC where the locals typically bask in blossoms and blue skies. Water on fields in Delta were glazed over last week and frost has Longview Farms on the Saanich Peninsula – the country’s largest daffodil farm – anxious to …
Vineyards escape cold damage
Orchards and vineyards appear to have weathered February’s cold snap, according to research scientists at the Summerland Research and Development Centre. Samples submitted by viticulture managers for Arterra Wines Canada Inc. (formerly Vincor) and Sebastian Farms, a division of Von Mandl Family Estates in West Kelowna, undergo testing at Summerland every two weeks by plant …
Mother Nature packs a wallop
CHILLIWACK – Collapsed barns and greenhouses, missed milk shipments and broken trees: the early February storm which blanketed the Lower Mainland with snow and freezing rain left a trail of destruction in its wake. The eastern Fraser Valley was hardest hit. BC Ministry of Agriculture provincial dairy technologist Roger Pannett has also been Environment Canada’s …