28


COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • JULY 2018 Tour gives public insight to dairy farming


Cliffview Dairy hosted this year’s Breakfast on the Farm by TOM WALKER


ENDERBY – The Bremer family of Cliffview Dairy Ltd., north of Enderby, hosted Breakfast on the Farm Okanagan on June 9, which culminated a three-day event. “It was quite a success,” says


Henry Bremer, who milks about 160 cows with his wife Henrietta and sons Brian and Kyle. “We had about 700 visitors on Saturday, but when you include the 400 school kids and their teachers and parents who did the tours on Thursday and Friday, that’s about 1,200 people we reached.”


The tours were a chance to


show people what happens on a real dairy farm, says Bremer.


Cliffview Dairy (from left to right, Brian, Henriettta, Henry and Kyle Bremer) was presented with their COR certificate by AgSafeBC’s Chad Stewart during Breakfast on the Farm in June. TOM WALKER PHOTO


“I think it makes a long- term impact on the kids. Many of them have never been on a farm before and it pays off in the long run,” he says. “We planned to have just one day of school tours, but we had a waiting list so we expanded it to two


days and we still had more who wanted to come.” The kids got an organized tour of the farm, a chance to milk Delilah the cow and had ice cream and chocolate milk. The tours were given free of charge, Bremer adds, while the


schools paid for the bus service. “We get a mix of people out to the


breakfast,” says Bremer. “Some are local farmers and some have never been on a farm before. We would have had more of those but for the rain on Saturday morning. ”


Cliffview is an average size


dairy for the North Okanagan, says Bremer. Its total herd numbers 320


head. It crops 240 acres of irrigated bottom land, with 130 acres in corn and 110 in alfalfa. It also has 50 acres of dry land pasture. The Bremers received an


AgSafeBC Certificate of Recognition (COR) during Saturday’s tour, the first such award in the Okanagan. COR is an incentive program that recognizes employers in the farm sector for implementing an effective Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) program. “This is something I wanted


to take a leadership role in,” says Bremer, who is president of the Kamloops Okanagan Dairy Association. “We had some deaths in this valley a few years back. I wanted to promote safety and show others how the program works and make a public statement that we are working on safety. It saves us some money, too.” Chad Stewart, AgSafeBC’s


North Okanagan safety consultant, says Cliffview is the first COR-certified dairy outside of the Lower Mainland. “Henry is great for promoting


AgSafe throughout the community and the industry,” he says.


MORE UPTIME. MORE PERFORMANCE. MORE COMFORT. LESS MAINTENANCE.


ABBOTSFORD 521 Sumas Way


1-888-283-3276 VERNON


7155 Meadowlark Road 1-800-551-6411


www.avenuemachinery.ca GIVE YOURSELF THE AVENUE


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40