The group that brings collectively and represents Canada’s cereal grain worth chain has a brand new board chair.
Brett Halstead, who farms at Nokomis, Sask., and represents the Saskatchewan Wheat Improvement Fee, was elected chair at Cereals Canada’s board assembly in Winnipeg on Thursday.
Rounding out Cereals’ government committee for 2024 are Adam Dyck (Warburtons), who strikes to the vice chair place, Jean-Marc Ruest (Richardson Worldwide Ltd.) as secretary, and Gregg Fotheringham (Manitoba Crop Alliance) as treasurer.
The next 4 new administrators have been elected to the Cereals Canada board:
- Dean Hubbard, Alberta Grains
- Rob Stone, Saskatchewan Wheat Improvement Fee
- Cami Ryan, Bayer CropScience Canada (two-year time period)
- Jared Veness, BASF (two-year time period)
Halstead replaces Jennifer Marchand of Cargill, who served as chair for the previous two years and can stay on the Cereals Canada board as a director. Cargill is one in every of a number of grain firm members which have just lately given discover that they intend to withdraw from the group in two years, however the firm has dedicated to remaining an lively participant within the group within the meantime.
Cereals Canada additionally launched its annual report, and introduced its imaginative and prescient for development of a $100 million “World Agriculture Know-how Trade” in Winnipeg, along side its annual common assembly on Thursday.
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