New ag heads named
The University of Manitoba has appointed Digvir Jayas, Murray Ballance and Daryl Kraft to department head positions in the faculty of agricultural and food sciences.
Jayas, an award-winning researcher in the field of grain storage, is taking over the department of biosystems engineering.
Ballance, of the plant science department, and Kraft, of the agricultural economics and farm management department, were both acting department heads and have now received official appointments.
Ballance has done internationally recognized research on tan spot disease in wheat and played a key role in developing a plant science research facility in Carman, Man.
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Kraft has made contributions to local and international agriculture policy and chaired the Manitoba Milk Prices Review Commission for several years.
Pulse Canada president
Gordon Bacon has been hired as president of Pulse Canada. The former director of market development for the Canadian Wheat Board will be responsible for co-ordinating international awareness of the Canadian pulse industry and will provide information to the industry on market requirements.
Bacon is a former the senior policy adviser to the minister of state, grains and oilseeds in Ottawa; information officer for the Agriculture Canada research centre in Swift Current, Sask. and district agriculturalist for Alberta Agriculture.
FCL elects region chair
The former president of Jay Oil Management Limited has been elected as Calgary region chair of Federated Co-operatives Limited.
Geologist Jim Williams, of Calgary, succeeds Gerry Kemp of Innisfail, Alta. as region chair.
Williams serves on the board’s executive, audit and member relations committees. He also represents the FCL board at meetings of the Calgary region training committee, the Alberta region of the Canadian Co-operative Association, the Co-operative Superannuation Society, Co-op Atlantic and the Goldeye Foundation. He was first elected to the board of directors of Calgary Co-op in 1973.
