BC Tree Fruits

• B.C. tree fruit growers can access $5M climate resiliency program

  Tree fruit growers in British Columbia are now able to access a $5-million climate resiliency program to help their crops weather extreme heat and cold.

  Politics

  Jan 30
  
• Farmers hopeful BC Tree Fruits can be saved despite private company setting up at former site

  NOVEM is in the business of storing pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products as well as agri-food.

  Canada

  Sep 26, 2024
  
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• B.C. unveils plan to recoup $4 million owed to members of collapsed tree fruit co-op

  The plan announced Thursday would see farmers paid out this year for past harvests, as the court process plays out for the bankrupted tree fruit cooperative.

  Politics

  Sep 12, 2024
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• Court orders BC Tree Fruits to sell all assets, growers fear imported fruit take-over

  The B.C Tree Fruits co-op owes more than $53 million to secured creditors, including $50 million to CIBC, according to court documents.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2024
• Farmers gather in Kelowna to protest BC Tree Fruits closure

  Protesters braved wet conditions Friday in Kelowna with the message: Save BC Tree Fruit. They are calling on the government to help reverse the co-operative’s closure last month.

  Canada

  Aug 16, 2024
• BC Tree Fruits protest planned for Friday morning in Kelowna

  A protest in Kelowna over the closure of BC Tree Fruits will start at 8 a.m. on Friday morning at the intersection of Bernard Avenue and Abbott Street.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2024
• Financial support for farmers announced as BC Tree Fruits files for creditor protection

  The province will enhance its AgriStability program to raise the AgriStability compensation rate to 90 per cent and double the compensation cap for farmers for the program year.

  Canada

  Aug 13, 2024
• Farmers, province meet to discuss challenges in wake of BC Tree Fruits closure

  Fruit growers in B.C. are scrambling and provincial politicians are hounding the government to provide immediate assistance following the collapse of the BC Tree Fruits co-op.

  Economy

  Aug 9, 2024
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• B.C. fruit growers cite ‘productive meeting’ with province after co-op collapse

  BC Tree Fruits, a member-owned cooperative that helps fruit growers get their product to market, abruptly closed in late July.

  Politics

  Aug 8, 2024
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• Support lining up for B.C. fruit growers in wake of co-op closure

  More needs to be said about the people who called the cooperative their workplace for so many years, union officials said.

  Consumer

  Aug 2, 2024