Michael Latimer is the new executive director of the Canadian Beef Breeds Council.
Latimer is a fifth generation purebred cattle producer having been a partner with Remitall Cattle Company at Olds, Alta. For the last four years he was general manager of the Canadian Angus Association where he was responsible for breed promotion and strategic planning with the beef breeds council.
He is also a past-president of the Olds Agricultural Society and has also served as a judge and a mentor in the cattlemen’s young leaders development program.
The beef breeds council represents and supports the Canadian purebred beef cattle sector. Their members include national breed associations that representing more than 10,000 producers of purebred breeding stock.
