Victoria & Islands Branch: BCIA Booth at the Island Agricultural Show - Update

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, Agrology Training Program Survey

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.

Acclaimed Registrant Board Member Electoral District 3 - Warren Mills PAg

 

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.

Call for Resolutions - BCIA AGM

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.

PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL REPORT to Registrants on Practice Areas and Reserved Practice

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.”

2022 BCIA Scholarships: Applications Welcome!

Applications for the 2022 BCIA Scholarships are being accepted until Monday, October 31, 2022, at 11:59 PM.

To support future agrologists to achieve their career in agrology, the BC Institute of Agrologists annually awards up to $1500 in scholarships in each of two categories: graduate and undergraduate, respectively.

Do you know a student attending a post-secondary agrology-related program?

2022 Scholarship Eligibility Criteria

Scholarship applicants must meet the following qualifications:

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