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Nursery Practices in Western Canada

Forest seedling production in British Columbia began with bareroot production in the 1930s and has evolved to be 95%+ containerized entering the new millennium. Until the late 1970s most production was limited to government facilities. Currently private industry produces 85% of seedlings planted in British Columbia. Production levels are at approximately 300+ million seedlings annually, with 225 million destined for British Columbia lands and 75+ million seedlings are contract grown for customers in other Canadian provinces and US states. The industry utilizes the styroblock® almost exclusively as the basis for its container system, which lends itself well to mechanization and associated economies of scale. Filling, sowing, and gritting of containers is mechanized at all facilities. Some also employ mechanical seedling extraction, wrapping, and plug-to-plug transplanting. Computerized climate monitoring and control in greenhouses has become the norm.


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Author(s): Eric Van Steenis

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 2000

Event: Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association Conference
2000 - Kona, HI