Canada: ‘The people who grow our food are just stressed out’: Debt, disasters raise pressure on B.C. farmers
Down on the farm: B.C. agriculture is facing threats on all sides, including inflation, high interest rates and climate disasters
By Glenda Luymes
Vancouver Sun
May 20, 2024
Excerpt:
Peter Simonsen sees the threats to B.C. agriculture all around him.
“I look out and it’s dead grapes and empty trees,” said the Naramata fruit grower, who is president of the B.C. Fruit Tree Growers’ Association.
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“There’s a great deal of despair in the industry right now — and I don’t think despair is too strong of a word.”
Across the province, the pressures facing farmers can be seen in the for-sale signs posted on dairy farms and on the gates barring access to chicken barns to prevent the spread of avian flu and to the smaller herds of beef cows grazing on new spring grass.
“Right now, between the financial environment and the actual environment, farmers are being squeezed,” said Gord Houweling, a realtor with B.C. Farm and Ranch Realty. “There’s not one sector that’s not impacted by this. All our farmers are struggling right now.”
For many, there’s fear that high interest rates and climate change will lead to fewer farms and more foreclosures in the coming months. In April, farmers reported the lowest confidence in their business performance of any Canadian sector, according to research by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-the-people-who-grow-our-food-are-just-stressed-out-debt-disasters-raise-pressure-on-b-c-farmers/
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