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New organization elects board

Thursday, April 19, 2012

by SUSAN MANN

A slate of 12 people were elected to the board of Farm & Food Care Ontario at the organization’s inaugural meeting Tuesday in Waterloo.

The at large directors are: Bruce Christie of Nutreco Canada Inc. and Heather Copeland of Grober Inc., both elected to two-year terms, along with Lianne Appleby of Hendrix Genetics and Ed Scharringa of the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, who were both elected to one-year terms.

The livestock representatives are: John Maaskant of Chicken Farmers of Ontario and Beth Clark of Ontario Pork, who were both elected to two-year terms in addition to Gerald Rollins of the Ontario Cattlemen’s Association and Murray Shrek of Dairy Farmers of Ontario, who were both elected to one-year terms.

The crop representatives are: Larry Lynn of Grain Farmers of Ontario and Joe Hickson of the Ontario Seed Growers’ Association, both elected to two-year terms. The other two are: Jim Poel of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers’ Association and Marinus Bakker of the Ontario Bean Producers’ Marketing Board, who were elected to one-year terms.

There were electoral races in all three categories. The executive will be elected at the first board meeting sometime in May. A date for that meeting hasn’t been set yet. BF

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