Agribition appoints new board
Bruce Holmquist of Saskatoon is the new president of Canadian Western Agribition.
Holmquist, who has been involved with Agribition for 40 years, joined the board in 2007 and became an executive member in 2012.
He has worked on various committees, including rodeo, RBC Beef Supreme, beef cattle, animal health, high school rodeo and prospect steer and heifer.
Holmquist, who is general manager of the Canadian Simmental Association, has been a Simmental breeder and a member of the CSA since 1977. He operates a farm with his family at Kinistino, Sask.
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Also elected to the executive are vice-president Chris Lees of Arcola, Sask.,and members at large Kim Hextall of Grenfell, Sask., Ross Macdonald of Lake Alma, Sask., and Bryce Thompson of Regina.
Past-president Stewart Stone of Regina is also a member of the executive.
Agribition members elected representatives to the board for two-year terms: Jodi Banks, Regina, Curtis Kuchinka, Regina, Michael Latimer, Calgary, Courtney MacDougall, Regina, Blake MacMillan, Nokomis, Sask., and Barry Young, Carievale, Sask.
Directors already on the board, serving the second of their two-year terms, are Carla Borsa, Saskatoon, Doug Fee, De Winton, Alta., Kim Hextall, Grenfell, Levi Jackson, Sedley, Sask., Marty Kratochvil, Milden, Sask., Chris Lees, Arcola, Sask., Ross Macdonald, Lake Alma, Sask., and Bryce Thompson, Regina.
Appointed directors include Jerry Flegel, City of Regina, Deborah Niekamp, Agriculture Canada, Kim Onrait, City of Regina and Grant Zalinko, Saskatchewan Agriculture.
Chicken Farmers get new executive committee
Chicken Farmers of Canada’s 15-member board of directors has elected its executive committee for 2017: Benoît Fontaine, Stanbridge Station, Que., chair; Derek Janzen, Aldergrove, B.C., first vice-chair; Nick de Graaf, Port Williams, second vice-chair; Tim Klompmaker, Norwood, Ont., executive member.
For more information, contact senior corporate communications officer Marty Brett at 613-566-5926 or mbrett@chicken.ca.
Alta. streamlines century farm award process
The application process for Alberta Agriculture’s Century Farm and Ranch Award is being streamlined.
The program recognizes farm families that have continuously owned and actively operated the same land for 100 years or more.
Successful applicants receive a custom-made 10 x 14 inch cast bronze plaque to mark the milestone..
Changes to the application process make it easier and more inexpensive to apply.
In most cases, the program can find the supporting documentation on people’s behalf so they don’t need to find their own homestead record or current land title.
It takes about six to eight weeks to produce the plaque, so interested families should get their application in well before any celebrations or family gatherings that they might be planning for receiving the award.
For more information, contact Susan Lacombe at 780-968-6557, or visit www.agriculture.alberta.ca/centuryfarm.
