Thompson / Okanagan
You should have a better eating experience when you choose B.C. tree fruits at the market, now that there’s only one co-operative packing and shipping fruit.
Growers elected the first board of directors for the new Okanagan Tree Fruit Co-operative Thursday in Penticton, after voting earlier this year in favour of amalgamation of the four packinghouses in the valley.
Category: Agriculture, Business
The Venables Valley Producers Co-op and the Seton Lake Indian Band were recipients of federal grants that were announced in Ashcroft last week.
The Producers Co-op received $25,200 to conduct a feasibility study for a facility to compost pine-beetle killed trees, while the Seton Lake Indian Band received $99,000 to develop an economic plan and two feasibility studies to strengthen the local economy, thanks to an investment by the Government of Canada, through Western Economic Diversification Canada.
Category: Agriculture, Business, Government
Damage to apricot, cherry and peach crops in the areas hardest hit by a powerful hail storm that swept through Osoyoos on July 3 has been inspected by crews from the provincial Agriculture Ministry, a gathering of the B.C.
Fruit Growers' Association heard at a special meeting in Osoyoos on July 30.
Category: Agriculture
(Kelowna) Four cooperative packinghouses today executed the final legal agreement for their amalgamation. The Okanagan Tree Fruit Cooperative is the culmination of decades of consolidation and mergers in the tree fruit packinghouse industry.
Category: Agriculture, Business
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