Visit to Flooded Farm Gives ‘Greater Sense of Loss’: BC Agriculture Minister

Dairy cows are reflected in flood waters as they keep dry in their barn near Agassiz, B.C., on Nov. 17. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

ABBOTSFORD, B.C.—The federal agriculture minister and her provincial counterpart said they were both moved to tears hearing about the devastation farmers endured in British Columbia’s recent floods and how those same people found the strength to help each other.

Marie-Claude Bibeau was joined by her provincial counterpart Lana Popham on Friday for a tour of a poultry farm that had been flooded before speaking to the media.