WINNIPEG – Dale Adolphe’s first job when he graduated from university 23 years ago was to help rapeseed growers move from using high-erucic acid varieties to ones with low levels.
Ever since, he’s been working with the Cinderella crop in one way or another. And now, he’s the new president of the Canola Council of Canada.
“I want to be part of the future success stories too,” Adolphe said, recounting the progress the crop has made in the past 23 years.
Adolphe moves to the job from XCAN Grain Pool, where he had been the manager of planning and development since 1989. A big part of his job at XCAN was strategic planning.
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He said this experience will be applicable to his new position, where he wants to help “revitalize the vision of this industry and the vision of the Canola Council’s role within the industry.”
Adolphe said an important short-term goal will be to gain wider acceptance of canola varieties produced through gene splicing.
This is not the first time Adolphe has worked for the canola council. He worked in market development for the council starting in the late 1970s, when it was still the Rapeseed Association of Canada and stayed with the organization until he moved to XCAN.
Adolphe replaces Dwight More, who recently became the Western Canada director of Cyanamid Crop Protection, an agricultural chemical company.
