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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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Weather-driven fruit shortfalls

February 22, 2023 byPeter Mitham

New tools are helping growers anticipate and assess the impact of weather on their plants, but the truth of how resilient they’ve been in the face of extreme weather events is often not known until harvest.

Data for 2022 released February 16 by Statistics Canada indicates that several fruit crops saw lower production last year, in part due to spring frosts and a cold, damp start to the season.

Yields in wine grape vineyards fell for the third straight year, Statscan reports, with the total crop down 7% last year to 26,540 tons. This is nearly 10,000 tons below the 2019 harvest of 35,537 tons. This is despite relatively stable acreage during the period.

A report last year by Cascadia Partners for the BC Vineyard Resiliency Task Group convened by Wine Growers BC pinned the persistence of short crops on a more variable weather associated with a changing climate.

“An increase in the incidence of extreme heat and cold events, as well as variable precipitation patterns, have all had large negative impacts on crop yields since 2018,” it stated.

Blueberries, the top fruit crop in BC with an annual value of $156.6 million, has also been impacted by adverse weather events. The flooding on Sumas Prairie in November 2021 followed the next month by extreme cold and a spring where conditions were less than optimal for pollination, reduce volumes by 4% last year – double the decline in bearing acreage. This translated to 3,100 fewer tons brought to market and marked the third straight year of declines, according to Statscan data.

The crop was 22,000 tons below its 2019 peak of 94,718 tons, and 9% below its five-year average production.

Despite the challenges, some established crops saw improved yields last year.

These included raspberries, where new plantings boosted per-acre yields by 32% after years of weather-related declines and pears, which saw yields rise 16% despite slightly lower acreage.

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