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By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup

Agriculture Roundup for Friday January 13, 2023

Jan 13, 2023 | 9:38 AM

MELFORT, Sask. – There are leadership changes at the Canadian Pork Council.

René Roy, a pork producer from Quebec, was elected as the new chair, and Scott Peters of Manitoba has been elected as the new first vice chair.

The organization’s longest-serving chair in its history, Rick Bergmann, retired from the board after 5 years of service to the national organization.

Bergmann navigated the pork industry through several challenging issues since joining the board in 2008, such as the global pandemic, WTO challenges, CPTPP and NAFTA trade negotiations.

Brent Moen, from Alberta, and Jack Dewit, from British Columbia, will continue to serve the industry as Second Vice-Chair and treasurer respectively.

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The Brandt Group of Companies continue its support of local and national charities.

For the third consecutive year, Brandt hosted an online holiday celebration with their more than 6,000 employees around the world. The event concluded with the announcement of a $500,000 fund that saw employees voting for charitable organizations that matter to them.

Brandt Senior Vice President of Marketing Matt Semple said the results of this vote then drove the distribution of funds to 14 non-profit organizations across Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand.

“We are very grateful for the faithful support of our customers, our employees, and the communities in which they live and work,” Semple said. “Brandt’s Thanks A Billion Holiday Fund is our way of saying ‘Thank You’ and no time of the year could be better-suited for that than the holiday season.”

Some of the recipients include the Canadian Cancer Society, Ronald McDonald House, Red Cross: Ukraine Humanitarian Support in Canada Appeal, MS Society of Canada, and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

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Case IH and New Holland are the recipients of prestigious awards.

The Case IH Patriot 50 series sprayer, New Holland’s Straddle Tractor Concept and TK4 Tractor Concept received recognition.

The Good Design Awards are organized by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press.

They are presented to innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs and are based on the highest aesthetic in terms of new technologies, form, materials, construction, concept, function, utility, energy efficiency, and sensitivity to the environment.

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