Insights and Stories on British Columbia

Bird flu pressure bears down on B.C. farms

Nov. 23, 2022 at 12:02 pm CST

Commercial poultry farmers in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have come out the worst so far this month in Canada’s year-long fight with highly pathogenic avian influenza. Since Wednesday last week, that region alone has seen outbreaks on 13 commercial poultry farms: nine at Abbotsford, three at Chillwack and one in […]

Drought-stricken B.C. bracing for floods when rains return

Oct. 13, 2022 at 4:05 pm CDT

By Nia Williams

B.C. to back Indigenous food system projects

Sep. 26, 2022 at 3:22 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Avian flu circles back in Western Canada

Sep. 15, 2022 at 2:05 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

B.C. cherries cleared for export to Korea

Aug. 22, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

B.C. orders poultry indoors as avian flu arrives

Apr. 14, 2022 at 8:37 pm CDT

British Columbia officials are ordering all commercial poultry operations to move their birds indoors after the arrival of avian flu in a flock in that province. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Thursday it confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza on Wednesday in a commercial poultry flock in the Regional […]

By Dave Bedard

B.C. doubling seat count at Saskatchewan vet college

Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:42 am CDT

The interprovincial cost-sharing agreement supporting the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) will now allow for twice as many students from British Columbia. The B.C. government and the U of S on Monday announced the province will now put up almost $10.7 million to double the number […]

By Dave Bedard

Rate of rise in farmland value ‘surprised’ in 2021

Mar. 14, 2022 at 7:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Despite a year of economic uncertainty due to extreme weather, reduced crop yields and the COVID-19 pandemic, the value of Canadian farmland rose by its highest rate in four years, according to a report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC). FCC’s report, released Monday, revealed that the national average […]

By Adam Peleshaty

AgriRecovery underway for flood-battered B.C. farms

Feb. 7, 2022 at 8:07 pm CST

The federal and British Columbia governments’ response to last fall’s destructive flooding now includes what’s said to be the biggest farm disaster recovery package in the province’s history. Provincial Agriculture Minister Lana Popham and her federal counterpart Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced cost-shared funding of $228 million for the Canada-B.C. […]

By Dave Bedard

Year-end profits up for CN, CP despite lower grain handles

Jan. 29, 2022 at 2:38 pm CST

Both of Canada’s big two railways were able to improve their overall gross and net in 2021 over 2020 despite a yield-robbing drought and disastrous track and bridge washouts in southern British Columbia. Canadian National Railway (CN) on Tuesday reported 2021 net income of $4.892 billion on $14.477 billion in […]

By Dave Bedard

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