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Following a summer with intense rain and continuous heat, local apple and pumpkin farmers are weighing in on how their growing seasons turned out. Tyler Downey is the owner of Downey’s Big Apple Farm in Maryhill, just outside of Breslau. The farm has been operating locally since 2019, but his father opened the first Downey’s…
Forestry giant Canfor sold its licence to log B.C.’s fourth-largest timber supply area to two First Nations on Monday. It sold its tenure for the approximately 64,000-square-kilometre Mackenzie Timber Supply Area in northern B.C. in equal parts to the McLeod Lake Indian Band and the Tsay Keh Dene Nation. “Our Nation’s purchase of additional forest tenure in the region is…
It’s been a rough stretch for many Canadian ranchers, with drought, pandemic-rattled supply chains and soaring feed and fuel prices taking a toll on those who raise their herds on the Prairies. Now, recent numbers from Statistics Canada provide some insight into the depth of those impacts, as operators opted to cull their herds in the face of shrinking profit margins….
