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Okanagan apple growers consider marketing commission to sell their fruit
While Okanagan apple growers didn't experience the same kind of killing damage that January’s cold…
BC cherry growers launch anti-dumping action against U.S. fruit
BC residents are urged to buy fresh, locally grown cherries rather than older fruit still…
New plan for Okanagan tree fruits takes aim at backyard farmers
A new plan to “stabilize” the tree fruit industry could include a new taxing regime…
Demand for foreign farm workers in Okanagan expected to increase
B.C.'s contingent of temporary foreign workers are starting to return to area farms, and this…
Okanagan apple industry expecting shortage of pickers
With fewer workers arriving through the seasonal agricultural worker program, the apple industry is bracing…
‘Desperate for workers’: Okanagan and Creston cherry and apple farms need help
Okanagan and Creston cherry and apple farms are abandoning crops due to a lack of…
Okanagan farmers defend treatment of migrant workers under COVID-19
The firing of two Mexican workers in West Kelowna for, allegedly, talking to a worker’s…
Okanagan fruit growers need locals to help bring in the harvest
The good news for Okanagan fruit growers struggling to find labour, is the cherry crop…
Federal COVID-19 aid for agriculture ‘profoundly underwhelming’: B.C. fruit growers
The future of a safe, secure food supply is at risk, members B.C. Fruit Growers’…
Farm workers from Mexico, Quebec begin arriving in Okanagan
Some temporary foreign workers from Mexico have finished their quarantine period in Vancouver and are…
Foreign workers for Okanagan farms, orchards still aren’t allowed to travel to Canada
Okanagan farms and orchards were expecting big news last night and thought they got it…
Okanagan farmers brace for losses as workforce banned from Canada amid COVID-19 concerns
The Okanagan's farmers long relied upon workers from other countries to care to bring crops…
How Okanagan fruit trees are weathering dramatic shifts in temperatures
With temperatures swinging from arctic to balmy and then back to chilly again, it’s only…
Okanagan cherry growers could lose millions in European exports
KELOWNA – A pending ban on cherries and other fruit by the European Union could…
B.C. apple farmers losing money
KELOWNA – Okanagan apple farmers were dealt two difficult growing seasons in a row and…
Valley apple growers recognized at Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
KELOWNA – Okanagan apple growers were honoured at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.…
B.C. fruit growers say no to genetically modified apples
KELOWNA – Fruit growers in B.C. are planning to ask the government to de-register the…