FEBRUARY 2017 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC
Million-dollar winners Specialty egg production has 11 new producers
by DAVID SCHMIDT
ABBOTSFORD – The BC Egg Marketing Board will be adding 11 new producers to its roster over the next few years as a result of its latest new entrant program draw. In 2015, the BC Farm
Industry Review Board ordered BCEMB to hold another new entrant draw as a condition of its approval to distribute new quota from Egg Farmers of Canada.
Although the draw was originally to have taken place in September 2016, it was delayed until January 10. That day, BC Minister of Agriculture Norm Letnick came to Abbotsford to personally draw the winning names.
To qualify for the draw, each applicant had to be a Canadian citizen and BC resident, at least 18 years of age, have never held any direct or indirect interest in any supply-managed quota, and submit an approved business plan.
Applicants were divided into three categories: “any,” “outside the Lower Mainland” and “small lot permit holders.” The small lot permit holders draw was limited to producers who already hold 300-bird small lot permits and wish to expand their production. There were 86 approved applicants in the “any” draw for four new entrants, 17
applicants for three new entrants in the “outside the Lower Mainland” category and 13 applicants for four new entrants from the small lot permit program.
Successful applicants in the “any” draw were Krista Harris of Abbotsford and Bonnie Bredenhof, Amy Hoock and Brayden Joiner of Chilliwack. Winners of the “outside Lower Mainland” draw were Jared DeDood of Grindrod, Sarah Schroeder of Salmon Arm and Ross Springford of Nanoose Bay. Small lot permit holders who will now be able to expand their production include Gabriel Charriere of Chilliwack, Marinus and Pauline Neels of Rosedale and Hugo Garcia and Willem Poortvliet of Agassiz. Each successful applicant will receive a non-transferable 3,000 bird quota and must use it for free run, free range or organic egg production. Successful applicants have until 2020 to come into full production.
Exact start dates will be worked out individually for each producer in consultation with the BCEMB and their grading station.
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balancing game to supply the grading station with the production type they need without forcing a producer to start earlier than they would like,” explains BCEMB communications and
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marketing manager Amanda Brittain. “If there is a tie (two producers with the same production type ready to go at the same time), they will start in the order they were drawn. Almost all successful applicants were in the room for the draw – not surprising since the draw is equivalent to a million-dollar lottery. Since egg quota units currently sell for over $350 per unit, it would cost a producer over $1 million to obtain 3,000 quota units through the exchange. “If you’re a winner of the draw, you have to expand your network,” BCEMB chair Brad Bond told applicants. “Talk to other producers to learn how the system works and to help your own egg production.” Prior to the 2017 draw, the board had issued 122,000 quota units to 30 producers
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BC Egg Marketing Board chair Brad Bond welcomes Krista Harris and Amy Hoock into the BCEMB new entrant program. DAVID SCHMIDT
since holding its first new entrant program draw in 2001. BCEMB executive director Katie Lowe noted 24 of those 30 new entrants are still in production.
“Before this draw, new
entrants represented 18% of our producers and 3% of our production. After this draw, new entrants will comprise 26% of our producers and generate 5% of our total egg production.”
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