Interim Participation Agreement keeps Alberta Beef Producers involved with national group

Jun 26, 2026 | 2:20 PM

Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) will remain involved with the Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) for now.

An Interim Participation Agreement announced last week will see ABP provide gap funding for the national organization from July 1 to Aug. 31. ABP will also stay involved in meetings and discussions, but as a non-member under the current governance structure.

ABP chair Doug Roxburgh said the process became more complex than ABP’s initial concerns around funding, Alberta representation and communication.

“When we got together with the nine member provinces and spent some time over the last number of months, both in-person meetings and online, and started to break apart the structure of CCA, the ideas that came out started to be a lot larger than simply the three asks that came out of Alberta,” Roxburgh said.

Roxburgh said governance changes at CCA are moving in a positive direction.

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“This interim agreement essentially allowed CCA some time to work through some of these bylaw changes that needed to happen, some of the governance structure, get us through the semi-annual meeting in August, which will be in Winnipeg this year,” he said. “This will allow some of that stuff to be put into motion, allow some votes to occur at the semi-annual meeting, and then ABP can reassess and then hopefully continue the discussion in the fall.”

CCA president Tyler Fulton said talks with ABP are moving in the right direction, but some issues still need to be addressed before the semi-annual meeting.

Fulton said resolutions passed at CCA’s AGM in March started the process. He said details on the new governance structure are being worked on with provincial cattle groups, including ABP. The existing CCA board will vote on the recommended changes before provincial members vote on them.

“It’s our expectation, I think, that sometime over the following three months or so that ABP will have a special delegate meeting where they will put these changes to their delegate body to vote on,” he said. “And it would be, assuming that that was passed and successful, then implementation of the new structure would start March of 2027.”

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by Alice McFarlane

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