Committee selected
The Canadian Farm Business Management Council has elected a new executive committee.
B.C. rancher Larry Campbell is the new chair. Campbell runs a 400-head cow/calf and backgrounding operation near Kamloops.
Newfoundland floriculturist Carl Oates is the new vice-chair. Oates is the owner/operator of Brookside Flowers, an integrated greenhouse flower production and marketing business located at Carbonear.
J. Wilson Loree was re-elected treasurer. Loree is the head of Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development’s farm business management branch.
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Quebec agronomist Jean-Marc Belanger has been elected as an executive member. Belanger is executive director of La Pocatiere Institute of Agri-food Technology.
The council is the co-ordinating body for the National Farm Business Management Program, a federal/provincial program launched in 1992. The program’s objectives are to improve farmers’ profitability, global competitiveness, self-reliance and long-term sustainability by providing farm business management training and information to farmers.
The federal government invests about $10 million a year into the program, which the provinces match with services.
Meat Council president
Wayne Urbonas, general manager of Burns Meats of Winnipeg, has been elected president of the Canadian Meat Council for 1995.
In his acceptance speech, Urbonas said the council should continue urging the federal government to continue paying for meat inspection services.
“Placing further cost burdens on industry will erode the competitive position of the Canadian meat industry, both domestically and internationally,” he said.
Urbonas has spent his career in the meat processing industry and first joined Burns in 1979 as a laboratory supervisor. He became general manager in 1994.
