Just two months after leaving his job as Saskatchewan Wheat Pool vice-president, Barry Senft has been appointed chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission.
And Chicken Farmers of Canada is losing a second senior official to a Liberal appointment as general manager Cynthia Currie prepares to become chair of the National Farm Products Council.
Last week, the chicken farmers chair, Lloyd Sandercock, stepped down after receiving a Liberal nomination to run in Saskatchewan in the next election.
The Senft and Currie appointments were part of a flurry of pre-election appointments announced March 24 by agriculture minister Ralph Goodale.
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Senft replaces Milt Wakefield, who has headed the Winnipeg-based commission since 1989.
Goodale also announced that Douglas Stow of Carman, Man., former president of Stow Seed Processors, moves into Senft’s old job as assistant chief commissioner.
Stony Plain, Alta. livestock and feed producer Albert Schatzke has been appointed a commissioner.
Currie replaces McIssac
At the National Farm Products Council, which oversees national orderly marketing agencies as well as agricultural checkoff legislation, Currie will replace former Liberal MP and long-time council chair Cliff McIsaac. Her appointment takes effect May 19.
She was part of the recently completed agriculture trade mission to Asia, has served on a government-appointed trade advisory committee and the Canadian Agri-Food Marketing Council. Currie appeared as the keynote speaker at Agriculture Canada’s excellence conference in Winnipeg last summer.
Goodale also appointed Saskatchewan egg producer and farm product council member Linda Boxall of Regina as vice-chair of the council.
Boxall is a longtime Saskatchewan Liberal who has made unsuccessful attempts to become an MLA, an MP and Saskatchewan Liberal party president.
