Canada and B.C. targeted funding to support business development, innovation, food safety and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the second quarter of 2012-13.

Canada and B.C. targeted funding to support business development, innovation, food safety, and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the first quarter of 2012-13. Growing Forward is a five-year framework that co-ordinates federal, provincial and territorial agricultural policy.

In honour of the Third Annual BC Farmers Appreciation Week, I would like to recognize the importance that farmers have to British Columbia's economy and to the health of everyone who lives here.

The Ministry of Agriculture is asking for the public's co-operation to help protect the B.C. apple industry from apple pests and minimize the use of pesticides.

Targeted funding from Canada and B.C. supported business development, innovation, food safety and sustainability under the Growing Forward Agreement in the third quarter of 2011-12.

Targeted funding from Canada and B.C. supported business development, innovation, food safety, and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the second quarter of 2011-12.

B.C.'s field vegetable and berry growers can keep informed of the most up-to-date growing techniques and information by accessing a web-based version of the highly respected B.C. Production Guides.

It has been estimated that up to one-third of the food we eat is the result of and dependent on pollination by honey bees.