What types of fruit do you grow?
What do you grow?
What crop has or will produce the best for you this year?
What crop has or will produce the best for you this year?
Did the weather affect your crops?
Did the weather affect your crops?
Very low yields for apples and cherries. Rain split cherries. Hot fall meant poor colour for apples.
Too much rain in spring then the drought all summer.
2021 heatdome caused tree stress.
Light crop for apples and cherries. No (zero) stone fruit such as peaches and nectarines.
The wet cold spring affected pollination.
Are you concerned about water for irrigation, given changes in climate?
Are you concerned about water for irrigation, given changes in climate?
Will you change your management practices due to the potential for even higher prices of fertilizer and other amendments?
Will you change your management practices due to the potential for even higher prices of fertilizer and other amendments?
Did you have a shortage of agricultural workers this year? What do you think would help?
Did you have a shortage of agricultural workers this year? What do you think would help?
More flexibility on farmers sharing foreign workers.
Foreign worker program works well. Temporary tourist work visa would be good as well.
Zero interest loans to build farm worker accommodation.
Did you experience any kinds of “shortages” such as fertilizer, plants, seeds, machinery parts, chemicals.
All of the above.
Cost of water.
Bylands Nursery had a shortage of replanting trees, including cherry, peach, apricot and apple.
Did you replant, or are you planning to re-plant next year?
Did you replant, or are you planning to re-plant next year?
Will not replant until the marketing problems in the fruit industry are fixed.
Will the rise in interest rates affect your business?
Will the rise in interest rates affect your business?
Was 2022 easier, harder or about the same as 2021 for farmers and growers?
