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NOVEMBER 2022
Vol. 108 Issue 11

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Final inspection

Dry Season

Country Life in BC wins awards

Duncan feed mill sounds supply chain alarm

The great pumpkin

Editorial: The price of peace

Back 40: Pumpkins make great conversation starters

Viewpoint: The roots of the ALR point a way to its future

Producers look beyond 2021’s flood

No quick fix

Ag Briefs: Plant centre breaks ground

Ag Briefs: 4-H LEADer recognized

Ag Briefs: New child worker rules

Movement of poultry banned to curb AI threat

Sentencing of animal activists disappoints industry

Weather makes for easier harvest in Peace

Western dairy groups target processors

Funding supports First Nations’ food security

Replant report targets industry over orchards

New national soil study underway

Honey producers target growth with new study

Sweet reward

Hazelnut industry continues to thrive

Producers push for social welfare in organic standards

Sidebar: Compliance rate high

Garlic grower cuts the mustard – and pests

Extended fall improves outcome at corn trial

Forest planning pilot includes range values

Diversification keeps families on the farm

Farm Story: Rethinking the sales strategy could improve profits

Automation boosts market garden’s efficiency

Fallow deer rattle Mayne Island farmers

Best of the best

Winery stakes its hopes on sur echalas planting

Woodshed: “One sweet deal” too hard for Kenneth to resist

Rising input costs create challenges for direct sales

Sidebar: Provincial farmer-chef event returns

Jude’s Kitchen: Comfort comes from the oven

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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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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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The price of peace

November 1, 2022 byEditorial

Remembrance Day was born in the aftermath of the First World War, a day to remember the armistice that ended four years of conflict in 1918. The conflict cost Canada dearly in terms of lives lost and shattered: 67,000 men, women and children died, and nearly 150,000 combatants were wounded. No conflict before or since has extracted such a toll on this country. There’s good reason many hoped and expected the Great War, as it was once called, would be the war to end wars.

A little more than a century later, emboldened by the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin brought war back to Europe with the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Canada has sent personnel to Europe in supporting roles but the West has so far avoided direct participation. Yet the war’s impact has been felt here, in rising costs for fuel, fertilizers and food. Canada has welcomed those displaced by the conflict. War north of the longest undefended border in the world is something that happens elsewhere, and our governments pride themselves on stepping up and offering assistance.

But assistance is also needed for those struggling here at home. Our farmers are not farming fields littered – and in some cases booby-trapped – with unexploded ordnance, but some of the natural hazards post equal threat to life and limb. The landslides that have sideswiped homes and destroyed fields in recent years make the job of farming and food production equally challenging. Support for those abroad should be an extension of the care we take of our own, that all may enjoy the benefits of the peace we enjoy.

But of more than $5 billion in disaster relief and recovery funds the federal and provincial governments pledged in the wake of last November’s catastrophic flooding through disaster financial assistance arrangements and AgriRecovery, just a fraction has been disbursed. While government talks about building back better, many farmers are stuck waiting for the means to build, period. Meanwhile, some producers, like those in the Nicola Valley, have been pummelled by repeated disasters. It’s fair to say some have been shell-shocked, and the government’s recognition of the importance of mental health supports is a welcome shift from how things were handled even a decade ago.

But real change is also needed.

“Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?” was the old peacenik slogan. Disasters, alas, keep showing up whether we want them to or not. And for those whose livelihoods are rooted in the land, there are few places to run (especially with the cost of land what it is).

Governments at all levels need to recognize food security on a par with international security. The conflict in Ukraine has shown how the two are intimately connected, as the cost of staples in many countries has risen and even our own has seen relatively dramatic escalations in the cost of flour, vegetable oil and other products. A greater number of items are out of stock than in the days before COVID, when supply chain disruptions began making themselves felt for the first time many of us could remember.

Peace is never just the absence of war but all that allows for human flourishing, including farming. What price are we who live in the absence of war willing to pay for it to be so?

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