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applications and sawdust storage while provincial minor use pesticide coordinator Caroline Bedard will go over changes in pesticide registrations
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affecting berry growers. On Saturday, the focus
shifts to blueberries. Growers will learn about weevil impacts on production, rainfastness of insecticides and fungicides, alternative crop inputs, cherry fruitworm, the use of drones and precision irrigation and the difference between fertigation and granular fertilization applications. There will also be updates
on BC’s blueberry breeding program and the global blueberry market as well as information on assessing blueberry harvest and post- harvest quality and how to satisfy packers and processors.
Ag water management
Since the new Water Act was enacted in 2016, farmers and ranchers have had to register their groundwater wells and start paying for the water they use for their crops and livestock. Getting those wells registered remains a challenge so the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development has extended the deadline to
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2022. FLNRORD staff will be in the Evergro Room Friday morning to talk about the extension and provide information on how to register online.
Whether or not farmers have registered their wells, climate change is forcing all farmers to adjust their water management strategies and increase efficiencies in water use. Water experts will describe a pilot project in Keremeos using variable-rate irrigation technology designed to do just that. As well, BC Cattlemens’
Association farmland riparian interface stewardship program manager Lee Hesketh will discuss drainage maintenance and Ted van der Gulik of the Partnership for Water Sustainability in BC will provide the latest results of salinity monitoring and the impact of salinity on fresh water in Delta and Richmond.
Direct farm marketing
In recent years, many farmers are trying to bypass the middleman and market their products direct to consumers. It can add value but has challenges. Outstanding Young Farmer finalists Sacha Bentall and Tyler McNaughton of Cutter Ranch in Fort Steele will describe their journey during a direct farm marketing session in the Evergro Room Friday afternoon, January 31. They will be joined by
Chuck Currie, the founding
executive chef of Earls Restaurants, who will discuss how to market to restaurants and Abbotsford marketing specialist Summer Dhillon- Giesbrecht, who will provide tips on how to brand and market a farm so it becomes recognizable to consumers.
Organic production Since organic farmers
cannot feed their vegetables chemical fertilizers, managing nutrients can be a challenge. Organic growers should therefore be most interested in attending the two-part seminar on nutrient management during the organic production sessions at the PAS on Saturday. In part one, the University of British Columbia’s Kira Borden
will provide an overview of four years of UBC-led organic amendment experiments. In part two, her UBC associate, Amy Norgaard, will report results of recent on- farm nutrient management trials on organic farms in Pemberton, Vancouver Island and the Fraser Valley. There will also be several sessions on weed
management, understanding growing degree days and growing with bioplastics. Michelle Franklin of
Kwantlen Polytechnic University will describe biocontrol products the KPU Institute for Sustainable Horticulture is developing to control pests and diseases. Finally, Delta growers
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will talk about their integrated approach to organic production and marketing.
Potatoes and field vegetables Field vegetable growers
will enjoy a full day of informative sessions in the Belchim Gallery, Thursday, January 30. There will be specific sessions on production issues affecting beet, cole crop, garlic and sweet potato growers. General sessions interspersed throughout will cover such topics as sclerotinia management, the value of grassland setasides, using drones to apply pesticides and the use of bacteriophages to fight pathogens which contribute
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