Beyond the Market Gives a Hand Up to New Northern Farmers
Since 2010, Community Futures along the BC Highway 16 corridor has been working to support agricultural growth by building community and providing professional development for [...]
Helping Processors Meet Retailers Needs
In the world of supply and demand, it makes good business sense to know what your customers want. That’s why BC’s food processors recently completed [...]
The Wonders of Poultry Offal
“Our customers wanted better options for dealing with poultry offal,” says Alex Berland of Passmore Pluckers, a small provincially-licensed poultry abattoir in the West Kootenays. With [...]
A Fresh & Growing Plan for Agriculture on the Sunshine Coast
The completion of an agricultural area plan by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) could be the beginning of an agricultural revival in the region. [...]
DEEBEE’S Teapops Take US by Store
It wasn’t easy setting a date to catch up with Dionne Laslo-Baker – since the launch of her company’s export initiative, the owner of DeeBee’s SpecialTea [...]
Assisting with New Product Commercialization
Three years and three projects after first connecting with IAF, Abbotsford-based Vitalus Nutrition has successfully developed and commercialized two new product lines under the Canada-BC Agri-Innovation Program! Vitalus [...]
Good News for Dairy Cows & Farmers
Lameness is one of the costliest health problems affecting dairy cattle today. Not only will a dairy cow with lame, sore, infected feet produce less [...]
Know the Culture, Get Results
Taking some time to understand your audience can go a long way when you’re doing market research. BC Association of Cattle Feeders recently gleaned valuable [...]
BC Agriculture Goes Global
From the US to the UK, throughout Asia and the Middle East, BC agrifoods have been circling the globe in pursuit of new markets, thanks [...]
BC Leading the Way for Greener Pest Management
In BC, our agriculture and research communities are national leaders when it comes to pest management, addressing societal pressures to reduce chemical pesticides while proactively [...]
A Fresh Course for BC Fairs
To most people, an agricultural fair is exhibits of baking & canning, livestock competitions and midway rides. But for over a century, they have served [...]
In Pursuit of a Better Cranberry
In 2011, BC cranberry growers celebrated the groundbreaking of a new cranberry research farm that promised to help return a competitive edge to an industry. [...]
