Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has named southern Ontario dairyman William Smirle to chair the National Farm Products Council.
Smirle, whose term runs to Feb. 14, 2010, is a partner in the family dairy farm at Morewood, southeast of Ottawa, and also worked as a teacher and principal in Ottawa. He also served as deputy mayor of nearby North Dundas and as a councilor in the local county government.
Ritz on Thursday also appointed Marjorie Donnan, a dairy farmer at Stirling, Ont. (northwest of Belleville), for a term on the NFPC until Aug. 23, 2010. She has worked for the provincial agriculture ministry and also previously sat on the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission.
Read Also
U.S. livestock: Cattle prices down, hogs rise again
Live and cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange retreated for a second session, while lean hogs extended their rally….
The minister also re-appointed Juliann Blaser Lindenbach, a dairy farmer at Balgonie, Sask. (east of Regina) for a one-year term with the NFPC. A registered nurse, Lindenbach is also the national promotions representative for the Dairy Farmers of Canada and chair of the governance committee of the Dairy
Farmers of Saskatchewan.
The council supervises the operations of the four national marketing agencies that run the supply management system for production of Canadian chicken, turkey, eggs and broiler hatching eggs. The four agencies in turn run their marketing plans, allocate production quotas and generate revenues through levies.
The NFPC also supervises the Canadian Beef Cattle Research,
Market Development and Promotion Agency.
