• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Country Life In BC Logo

The agricultural news source in British Columbia since 1915

  • Headlines
  • Calendar
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Headlines
  • Calendar
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact

NEWS

Co-op meets with growers

September 7, 2022 byPeter Mitham

A series of public engagement sessions are giving BC Tree Fruits Co-op members an opportunity to comment on plans to consolidate packing operations in Oliver and sell off assets in Kelowna and Lake Country. An in-person meeting takes place in Oliver today, with a second session set to take place in Kelowna in the days …

Wildfire threat remains high

September 7, 2022 byPeter Mitham

September has amped up the wildfire risk in many parts of BC as hot, dry weather gives summer an extended finish. While the conditions are good news for forage corn producers, property owners in Hudson’s Hope are on evacuation alert as a result of the Battleship Mountain fire which ranks as the largest fire in …

Rate hike demands planning

September 7, 2022 byPeter Mitham

The latest rate hike by the Bank of Canada is putting the onus on farmers to plan further ahead to stay on top of the financial impacts. The central bank’s policy rate increased a further 75 basis points on September 7 to 3.25%, or 13 times the rate on March 1. It’s the fifth consecutive …

Cool weather improves wildfire response

August 31, 2022 byKate Ayers And Peter Mitham

PENTICTON – Wildfires in the area between the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys have shaped up as the biggest direct threat to BC ranchers this summer, with many still on edge after last year’s intense, wind-driven fires with lengthy perimeters. The Keremeos Creek wildfire 21 kilometres southwest of Penticton, the largest blaze in the province outside …

Cattleliner loss mourned

August 31, 2022 byPeter Mitham

Country Life in BC joins Western Canada’s dairy community as it mourns the loss of three young men and nearly two dozen animals in a head-on collision Sunday. Brandon Johnson and Tanner Liefting were hauling Team BC heifers back from the Western Canadian Classic junior dairy competition in Brandon, Manitoba when their rig collided near …

Disaster relief deadline passes

August 31, 2022 byPeter Mitham

Fresh landslides in the Nicola Valley last week underscored the ongoing impacts of last year’s extreme weather as the deadline for applications to the federal-provincial AgriRecovery program unveiled in response to last November’s catastrophic mudslides and flooding approached. But just a fraction of the $228 million allocated to the 2021 Flood Recovery Program for Food …

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 76
  • Go to page 77
  • Go to page 78
  • Go to page 79
  • Go to page 80
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 223
  • Go to Next Page »

Copyright © 2025 Country Life in BC · All Rights Reserved