2023 Annual Registration Fee Renewal Process - the late payment fee ($150.00; $50.00 for on leave) and late PD filing fee ($75.00) have both been applied now. March 31st is the absolute final date to renew your registration. If past March 31st, removal from the Register will occur and you will be unable to practice agrology.
As of April 1, 2023, IAF will no longer be delivering the CAP: Climate Change Adaptation Program. The program is funded under the federal-provincial-territorial Canadian Agricultural Partnership framework which ends on March 31, 2023.
To stay informed of Ministry of Agriculture and Food programming going forward, please sign up to the AgriServiceBC Newsletter: https://agriservicebc.campayn.com/contact_list_form/signup/88410
APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2022
Due to the termination of auditing services by KPMG just before the previous AGM of BCIA, we were unable to have a recommendation for a new auditing firm prior to that meeting. At its meeting on March 24th,2023 the Board of BCIA passed the following motion:
“ Be it Resolved that the Board of BCIA recommend to the Registrants of BCIA that the firm of Padgett Business Services be appointed as the auditors of BCIA for the 2022 fiscal year.”
BCIA Booth at the Vancouver Island Agriculture Show
By: Jenn Wilson, PAg
The Victoria and Islands Branch participated for a second time in the Island Agriculture Show (the Show).
Our registrants asked us to support this community event at our Annual General Meeting last October. The Show was held on February 3 and 4, 2023 at Duncan's Cowichan Exhibition Centre. Our neighbours this year were 4H Canada, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Evergro and the Young Agrarians.
Canadian Organic Growers envisions a regenerative and resilient organic food and farming system across Canada. Are your clients interested in cover crops? Would you like more training in cover crops to meet your clients' needs? Canadian Organic Growers is hoping to develop a training program for agrologists to help them serve this market (for organic and nonorganic producers alike). Our first step is to document the need for this service, and how it is best delivered.
BCIA is pleased to report that Warren Mills PAg has returned by acclamation as a Registrant Board Member from Electoral District 3, comprised of the Vancouver and the Victoria and the Islands Branches. Warren has made significant contributions to the Board in his first term which will end, and his new term begin at the 2023 BCIA AGM set for April 22 in Kamloops as part of the annual Conference.
A Call for Resolutions to be considered at the BCIA AGM on April 22, 2023 is officially announced. For more information on Resolutions, review Bylaws 32 – 36. The submission deadline is 45 days prior to the AGM. UPDATE: no resolutions were received by the deadline.
Closed - The Nomination Committee is seeking nominations from BCIA Registrants in good standing for one (1) Registrant Board Member from Regional Electoral District 3.
Nominations will be accepted from Tuesday, January 3, 2023, to Friday, February 3, 2023, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time at nominations@email.bcia.com.
For full details and the nomination process, please click on the link below:
HELPING FARMERS TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE BY ADOPTING BENEFICIAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
As many of you know reserved practice (“Practice Rights”) will come into force for our profession on September 1st of this year, close to one week from today. A primary foundation of those rights are definitions of agrology practice areas which are clear, accountable, and enforceable. This has been done in a document entitled “Practice Areas - A Summary for BCIA Registrants and Applicants.”
