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BC Cattlemen’s Association members gathered in Cranbrook for their 97th AGM last week. BCCA president Werner Stump welcomed upwards of 300 ranchers as he signalled a change in tone with the association’s approach to government. “We are going to be a lot more blunt in our dealings with government as we fight for our livelihood,” Stump told his audience. The North American herd size remains down, and calf prices are expected to stay strong, says Brenna Grant from Canfax. “We could see $5.50 -$5.70 this fall for a 5(00) weight calves.” Duncan and Jane Barnett and family from Barnett Land and Livestock in 150 Mile House received the Ranch Sustainability Award, which recognized their riparian management and community involvement. From left to right, Clayton Loewen with Jane, Duncan and Lindsay Barnett.

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BC Cattlemen’s Association members gathered in Cranbrook for their 97th AGM last week. BCCA president Werner Stump welcomed upwards of 300 ranchers as he signalled a change in tone with the association’s approach to government. “We are going to be a lot more blunt in our dealings with government as we fight for our livelihood,” Stump told his audience. The North American herd size remains down, and calf prices are expected to stay strong, says Brenna Grant from Canfax. “We could see $5.50 -$5.70 this fall for a 5(00) weight calves.” Duncan and Jane Barnett and family from Barnett Land and Livestock in 150 Mile House received the Ranch Sustainability Award, which recognized their riparian management and community involvement. From left to right, Clayton Loewen with Jane, Duncan and Lindsay Barnett.

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Grapegrower Colleen Ingram, who was recognized earlier this year as the 2024 Grower of the Year by the BC Grapegrowers Association. “Given the devastation we have had over the last three years, I feel like this award should be given to the entire industry,” she says. Her story appears in the June edition of Country Life in BC, and we've also posted to our website.

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Industry champion named BC’s best grape grower

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KELOWNA – Colleen Ingram’s enthusiasm for collaboration within the BC wine industry is so great that when she was named 2024 Grower of the Year by the BC Grapegrowers Association, she wanted to sh...
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From orchard manager to government specialist and now executive director of the BC Fruit Growers Association, Adrian Arts brings a rare blend of hands-on farming experience and organizational leadership to an industry poised for renewal. His appointment comes at a pivotal moment for BC fruit growers, with Arts expressing enthusiasm about continuing the momentum built by his predecessor and working alongside a board that signals a generational shift in agricultural advocacy.

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Arts leads BCFGA forward

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A combination of organizational management and practical farming experience has primed the new executive director of the BC Fruit Growers Association to lead the industry forward.
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A public consultation is now underway on the powers and duties of the BC Milk Marketing Board. Key issues for dairy producers include transportation costs, rules governing shipments and limitations on supporting processing initiatives. Stakeholders have until May 31 to comment.

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A public consultation on the powers and duties of the BC Milk Marketing Board is underway as part of a triennial review required by the British Columbia Milk Marketing Board Regulation.
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Popham back as ag minister

Saanich South MLA Lana Popham has been reinstated to her role as agriculture minister. Photo | BCMAF

November 20, 2024 byPeter Mitham

What’s old is new again with Premier David Eby’s choice of Saanich South MLA Lana Popham as agriculture minister.

Popham returns to a role from which Eby shuffled her in December 2022 in favour of Pam Alexis, who lost her seat in October’s provincial election.

Popham’s efforts to cultivate connections during her first term as agriculture minister won her friends across the Fraser Valley in the wake of the atmospheric river events that flooded Sumas Prairie in 2021, though she came under fire elsewhere in the province for the speed of government’s response to the disaster.

Popham saw her first term as something of a golden age for agriculture thanks to a high level of public interest in the food supply and farming driven by the pandemic and the successive environmental disasters that provided the backdrop for her term, including record-setting wildfires, drought and flooding.

But she also acknowledged that she, like many of her cabinet colleagues, represented urban ridings divorced from rural concerns.

This is why the appointment of Vernon-Monashee MLA Harwinder Sandhu as parliamentary secretary for agriculture was hailed in some quarters as promising a balanced approach to agricultural policy in the new government.

BC Potato and Vegetable Association president Bill Zylmans is optimistic, however.

“I’ve got a minister I’ve worked with in the past,” he said, emphasizing the continuity possible.

This wasn’t the case with Alexis, who admitted she had much to learn about the sector despite representing the Mission-Abbotsford riding, one of the most agriculturally productive ridings in the country.

Popham’s counterpart in the Opposition benches is Delta South MLA Ian Paton, shadow minister of agriculture for the BC Conservatives.

Also of interest to farmers is the appointment of Sunshine Coast MLA Randene Neill to Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, where she’ll be overseeing groundwater licensing. Langford-Juan de Fuca MLA Ravi Parmar will oversee Forests, a role of particular interest to ranchers.

While detailed mandate letters have yet to be issued, the new cabinet has been instructed to focus on reducing costs for families, strengthening health care, making communities safer and building a clean economy.

“They expect us to focus on the challenges they worry about at the kitchen table,” Eby told the newly appointed cabinet, without once mentioning the food served on those tables.

 

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