Author Archives: ADMIN BCGPA

On Friday May 5th members of parliament Bob Zimmer and Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Agri-Food, and Food Security John Barlow met with the Peace Region Living Labs team, North Pine Farmers Institute, and directors of the BC Grain Association. Current projects were discussed as well as what the future holds

April 27, 2023- During the growing season of 2022, Pea growers in the BC Pace Region noticed that pea crops were starting to show signs of stress. Keith Uloth, with the Pest monitoring project, collected soil samples from 9 locations in the BC Pace region. These samples were sent to Read More »

JOIN BC GRAIN THURSDAY, APRIL 27TH @ 8am VIRTUALLY TO LEARN MORE!!

BCGPA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: BC Grain Spring Update
Time: Apr 27, 2023 Read More »

Surveys & Reports – Peace Region Living Lab (peacelivinglab.ca)

The Peace Region Living Lab team would like to kick-off the 5-year PRLL project by getting in touch with Peace Region producers, who are the focus and heart of this Read More »

CHECK OUT THIS PEACE REGION COVER CROPPING FACT SHEET!!

Factsheet 1 Willms Cover Cropping 6pg

Les & Hannah’s main goal for their farmland is to:  Improve the soil Read More »

2022-Field Research Booklet 

Field research poster March 2023

March 14, 2023 – BC Grain Producer Director Hannah Willms of Rose Prairie attended a meeting with the Honorable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Federal Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food, on Tuesday, March 14th. Hannah was invited to participate in this meeting through the BC Agriculture Council (BCAC). The discussion was chaired by Stan Vander Read More »

Peace Region Forage Seed Association (peaceforageseed.ca)

Pests in the Peace Webinar

Come join Keith Uloth for an hour on Tuesday, Mar 21 to learn about potential pest issues in the upcoming growing season, how to determine thresholds and potential tools to help deal with problems. Register for the webinar Read More »

Have you been waiting for the BCGPA 2022 Peace Region Field Research book? The wait is almost over join us on February 14, 2023, Read More »

Reading your Soil Samples and Nutrients in your soils

Mike Dolinski

Mike was born and educated in Manitoba. He moved to Alberta in 1972 and Read More »