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September 2023
Vol. 109 Issue 9

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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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Wildfire, flood risks rise

The BC Wildfire Service continues to respond to the Boundary Lake wildfire located at the B.C./Alberta border, east of Fort St. John. Photo | Facebook/BC Wildfire Service

May 10, 2023 byKate

Warm and dry conditions in the Peace region have prompted early seeding this year, but the lack of moisture has fuelled wildfire risk in the area.

“It’s been very dry. We went into the winter with the driest soil conditions I’ve ever seen,” says grain producer Dave Wuthrich of PW Farms in Flatrock, a half-hour drive east of Fort St. John. “We’re used to seeding into mud. And it is so dry that I seeded through slough holes that I have never seeded before in my life.”

He’s also seeding through smoke from the Boundary Lake fire east of town on the Alberta border. On May 7, his family was on an evacuation alert. Boundary Lake is one of 56 fires currently burning across BC.

“Where our farm is situated, it’s pretty safe,” Wuthrich says. “We’re surrounded by a big field and lots of cultivated land, but you want to stick around and help the neighbours fight their fires if they do have issues.”

Wuthrich started seeding April 30, which is the earliest he’s ever started the growing season. This year he’s planting wheat, barley, canola, fescue and timothy.

“There was very little runoff this spring so what little snow we did have did soak in,” he says. “There still is some soil moisture there but now we’re going like idiots to try and get it sealed off because it’s been very hot and windy.”

Tom de Waal of Harvest Angus in Prince George usually doesn’t start planting until May 15. This year, conditions mean he anticipates being wrapped up by then.

While the warm weather is driving up wildfire risk in some areas, it’s causing flooding in other parts of the province.

While the flooding situation has stabilized, the Thompson sub-basin remains under a flood warning and the Middle Fraser and South Thompson sub-basins are under flood watches.

Rising temperatures later this week could prompt the rapid melt of high-elevation snow and deliver runoff to the larger rivers, says head of the BC River Forecast Centre Dave Campbell.

Out of an abundance of caution, the province closed Highway 99 between Pemberton and Lillooet on the night of May 9 due to the potential for slides.

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