British Columbia celebrates 4-H Month this November, and the contributions the youth development program makes to agriculture and the province's workforce.

B.C. producers exported a record-setting $80 million worth of seafood to China in 2010, and sales for this year are on pace to break it, with representatives from about 30 B.C. seafood companies and organizations embarking on the largest-ever B.C. seafood trade mission to China, said Agriculture Minister Don McRae.

Let the bounty of British Columbia's vast agricultural industry be the centrepiece of your Thanksgiving weekend is the advice being provided by local food advocate and B.C. Minister of Agriculture Don McRae.

Fancy tasting a winner of London's Decanter World Wine Awards? Interested in meeting the people who produced a winning wine at the San Francisco International Wine Competition? Like to see where grapes that won at France's International Challenge du Vin were grown?

You likely know them as the happy, hardworking kids in the barns at every summer fair across British Columbia. The Province knows them as the future of agriculture, and that's why it's investing $85,000 in the B.C. 4-H program's young members through a provincial grant.