Holstein marketer
Holstein Canada has named Harley Nicholson as its new marketing manager.
Nicholson, from Langley, B.C., has spent many years in Canada’s cattle breeding and genetics industry.
Most recently, he served as general manager of Westgen in Milner, B.C., one of Canada’s longest-operating, producer-owned, artificial insemination organizations.
Nicholson was raised on a registered Holstein farm near Ottawa and was active in 4-H throughout his youth. He graduated from the University of Guelph with a master of science degree in dairy cattle breeding and later joined the genetics division at Centre d’insemination artificielle du Québec Inc., in St-Hyacinthe, Que. This was followed by a management role at Eastern Breeders Inc., in Kemptville, Ont.
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Nicholson and his wife, Heather, will be relocating to the Brantford, Ont., area in the coming months.
Farm plan continued
The federal government has reached a one-year agreement to provide interim funding to the Environmental Farm Plan program in Saskatchewan.
To date, more than 2,000 workshops have been held throughout the province and more than 10,000 Saskatchewan producers have completed environmental farm plans. More than $40 million has been granted to producers who complete the program and follow approved agri-environmental practices.
The federal funding announcement will provide transitional funding between the old and the new agricultural policies.
Alberta grain chair
The Alberta government has named Vegreville farmer Greg Porozni as the new chair of the Alberta Grain Commission.
Porozni grows cereals, peas and canola on 4,000 acres and runs a cow-calf operation. He replaces Eugene Dextrase, a farmer from High Level, Alta. Dextrase will continue to sit on the commission board.
Porozni has served as a director and chair of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission and as a director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.
He has also served as a member of the Alberta Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Council and was a federally appointed member of the Canadian Wheat Board electoral advisory committee that drafted recommendations on CWB electoral policy in 2005.
Porozni also ran in 2002 for a seat on the CWB’s farmer-elected board of directors in District 5, which covers northern Saskatchewan and northeastern Alberta.
New wheat form
The Canadian Grain Commission has posted a sample form on its website to help farmers prepare for a new declaration system for western Canadian wheat.
The form is part of the new declaration system, which is being introduced Aug. 1. Producers will be required to complete the form once a year at every elevator where they deliver wheat, and to verbally declare the class of wheat for each load they deliver.
By signing the form, producers are confirming the wheat they will deliver is eligible for a specific western Canadian wheat class.
The new class declaration form was developed by an industry group comprised of producers and members of the Western Grain Elevator Association, the Inland Terminal Association of Canada, the Canadian Wheat Board, Agriculture Canada and the grain commission.
To advise producers of the Aug. 1 changes, the commission is running radio and newspaper ads across Western Canada.
For a copy of the declaration form, go to grainscanada.gc.ca/wheat-ble/ds-sd/declaration-eng.pdf.
