Livestock partner
Al Hingston, former head of Saskatchewan Agriculture’s livestock production section, has joined Canada Livestock Services Ltd. of Marsden, Sask.
Hingston is a full partner, and will manage international training and technology transfer programs to support livestock genetics sales. The training division will be managed out of Regina.
Council receives grant
The Canadian Agricultural New Uses Council, formed to foster development of agricultural products as non-food or new food products, has received a $200,000 grant from the Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development Fund.
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The grant will promote new technology research, development and practical applications. It is hoped the money will attract more members to the council and elicit funding from other sources.
The council has met and approved bylaws. Requirements include principles consistent with domestic and international trade and criteria giving priority to projects involving partnerships and alliances across the agricultural sector.
All projects and expenditures will be approved by the board of directors, which consists of eight voting members drawn from a range of backgrounds including the scientific community, agricultural producers and biotechnology businesses.
Agriculture Canada will be represented by a non-voting board member.
U of M appoints chair
Brian Oleson, former executive director of planning and communications with the Canadian Wheat Board, has been appointed the University of Manitoba’s first agribusiness chair in co-operatives and marketing. The position was recently established by the department of agricultural economics and farm management at the university.
The chair program was started to study agricultural co-operatives and marketing groups to gain an understanding of these organizations.
Oleson worked with the wheat board for 16 years and also worked with the marketing and economics branch at Agriculture Canada. He was a former adjunct professor with the University of Alberta and the University of Saskatchewan, and lectured in agricultural and agri-business courses at the University of Manitoba.
