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Opportunities and challenges for Canadian greenhouse growers in 2024

The Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs found it crucial to recognise and reward the exceptional efforts of those who have worked extra hard in 2023 in an award ...

B.C.’s United Flower Growers Co-operative Association marks six decades of community, commerce and cultivation

The United Flower Growers has helped to elevate floriculture into B.C.’s second largest agricultural economic driver.

With Mother’s Day on the way, the blooms are booming at Burnaby’s ‘Silicon Valley of flowers.’

Although turkey barns are packed, frozen turkey inventories are at their lowest in more than two decades, according to the B.C. Turkey Marketing Board — and some supermarkets are selling out of the holiday staple.

Experts warn that supply-chain issues across the country could threaten the availability of a Christmas dinner staple: turkey.

If turkey is on the menu for Christmas Day this year, you may have heard the news that Canadas turkey stocks are at a 30-year low. That has many rushing out to secure that perfect bird now, but on Vancouver Island, youre not going to have to worry.

CALGARY — Jerry Kamphuis wants his longtime, loyal customers to get first priority this year when it comes to a Christmas turkey. The owner of Country Lane Farms, near Strathmore, Alta.

Industry experts say the countrys turkey stocks are at 30-year-lows, a fact that is being complicated by the supply chain headaches across the country.