Higher beef prices helping ranchers recoup some of the losses from wildfires
KAMLOOPS — Nearly two months after the province dropped the State of Emergency around the B.C. wildfires, ranchers are still recovering.
In total, 1.2 million hectares burned — the most in the province’s history — and much of the burnt out areas was grassland, leaving ranchers scrambling for feed while some had to move cattle their out of danger.
“We didn’t have any feed,” said rancher Clint Ellis, who owns two ranches west of Williams Lake. “We had to truck some feed in. We had to use our hay pasture that would normally make our winter crop for our cows. We had to put our cows on there, because there was nothing left for them to eat.”