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CROP INSURANCE UPDATE
LAST DAY TO GET IN SEEDED CROP REPORTS IN!!
Seeded Crop reports need to be submitted by June 14th. Ensure your coverage is in place!
Hail Spot Loss is an affordable option to protect your crops from Hail or Wildfire. Premium rates per $100 of coverage are $1.68 Cereals & $2.58 Canola/Peas/Fine Read More »
PRLL Summer Field Work
Summer students Liam Walsh and Ella Bennett have been completing this years Peace Region Living Lab field testing for various sites. These tests determine soil compaction, moisture, temperature, infiltration, and general soil characteristics. Soil compaction, moisture, and temperature are all measured by a variety of probes. Infiltration is measured in Read More »
SAVE THE DATE for BCGPA Annual General Meeting and Farm Tour
Add our Annual General Meeting and Farm tour to your summer plans! We will be touring farms in the Cecil Lake area. Agenda to follow in the next couple of weeks.
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AGRICULTURAL CLEAN TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM – 2023 Intake
NEW PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE THROUGH AAFC!
ACT Adoption Program: Agricultural Clean Technology Program
Green energy and energy efficiency improvements enable better management of energy-intensive agricultural processes, including but not limited to the purchase and installation of: energy-efficient, low-emissions equipment (for example, commercial grain dryers) where an efficiency gain can be Read More »
Members of Parliament Visit
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
Common Pea Root Rot Pathogen “APANOMYCES EUTHEICHES” in BC Peace
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 »
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE BCGPA 2023 FIELD RESEARCH PROGRAM?
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 Read More »
Peace Region Living Lab Baseline Peripheral Survey
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 »
COVER CROPPING AT FARM SCALES
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 Read More »
