Series of BMPs

A series of beneficial management practices (BMPs) to help fix existing problems and enhance stewardship are available to all landowners who have EFPs. BMPs are specific on-farm practices producers can use to avoid environmental problems and/or enhance habitat such as fencing stock out of streams or planting a buffer strip. Best of all, the federal and provincial governments and conservation groups like DUC will not only provide the technical expertise, they will pay a portion of the cost to evaluate BMPs uptake by producers.

“We’re very encouraged by our producer enthusiasm for BMPs,” says Steve Thomson, executive director of the British Columbia Agriculture Council. The Council represents the collective interests of all agricultural producers in B.C. and delivers environmental funding support to producers. For its previous success in delivering some 80 environmental projects, the Council received the Canadian AgriFood Award of Excellence for Environmental Stewardship in 2005.

“DUC involvement has been of great benefit and sometimes makes the difference in whether a program goes forward,” says Thomson.

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