Type: Decision
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Decision: Beckhope Farms Ltd. v. British Columbia Milk Marketing Board
Appeal of BCMMB’s decision to deny an off-exchange transfer of dairy farm quota as part of a going concern sale. Beckhope Farms Ltd. sought an exception due to special circumstances involving estate settlement delays.
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Decision: Bevo Farms Ltd. v. B.C. Vegetable Marketing Commission
BCFIRB grants Bevo Farms Ltd.’s appeal against BCVMC’s decision to deny a cucumber production allocation. BCVMC is ordered to issue a production allocation for 19,560 m2 of cucumber production for the period from September 2008 to February 2009.
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Decisions and recommendations: The British Columbia Chicken Industry — Pricing, Production and Related Issues
The B.C. Marketing Board analyzes chicken industry pricing and production issues, with recommendations for amendments to the Chicken and Broiler Hatching Egg Schemes, regulatory authority changes and improved governance.
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Decision: B.C. Marketing Board re: BCCMB Pricing and Production in the British Columbia Chicken Industry
Supervisory order directing the B.C. Chicken Marketing Board to amend its pricing and production order (Order #1/97) to create a new two-part consultation process: a statutory Pricing and Production Advisory Committee (PPAC) for general policy advice, and a separate joint committee (Board Committee and Processor Committee) for negotiating and arbitrating specific periodic pricing and production…
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Preliminary Decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Appeal of VMC’s Order 10/03(a) requiring BC Vegetable to remit $376,642 in levies. This preliminary decision addresses disclosure disputes, requests for forensic examination of Commission computers, scope of the appeal, and scheduling. The Board ordered limited further disclosure, dismissed other requests, and confined the appeal to levy calculation issues.
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Decision: B.C. Chicken Growers’ Association v. B.C. Chicken Marketing Board
The BCFIRB dismisses the appeal by BCCGA against BCCMB’s July 8, 2005 order, which converted transitional quotas to primary quotas to address inequities in quota allocation.
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Costs decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Costs decision arising from appeal of BCVMC Order 10/03(a) regarding levy calculations for greenhouse vegetable producers. The matter involves costs applications by the BCVMC and BC Hot House Foods Inc. following extensive interlocutory steps and disputes over the scope of appeal and document disclosure.
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Preliminary Decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Appeal of BCVMC’s Order 10/03(a) requiring BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. to remit $376,642 in outstanding levies. The BCVMC and BC Hot House sought summary dismissal of the appeal. The Board dismissed most grounds as frivolous or an abuse of process, but allowed the appeal to proceed on jurisdiction and computation issues.
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Decision: British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association v. British Columbia Tree Fruit Marketing Board
Appeal of BCTFMB’s decision to deny a grant for a marketing initiative.
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Decision: Supervisory review of the B.C. greenhouse vegetable industry
The B.C. Marketing Board issues a decision addressing various issues in the regulated vegetable sector, including marketing exemptions, levy impositions, and marketing conditions.
