Stewart Cressman re-elected

 When I was a lad, growing up on a farm near New Dundee, I loved fishing for trout.

My closest friend's uncle owned a farm through which a neat spring-water creek ran, and he stocked it with trout and welcomed us to fish on Sunday afternoons.

That farmer's son is Stewart Cressman who I have, obviously, had the pleasure of knowing for many years. He is a gift to Canadian agriculture.

And so I was pleased to see that he has been re-elected chairman of Swine Innovation Porc and Normand Martineau vice-chairman during the organization’s annual meeting in Edmonton.

Cressman is also chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute fof Ontario, vice-chairman of the Livestock Genetics Advisory Board and a member of the Ontario Swine Health Advisory Board.

He has been a beef and hog farmer on the family farm he took over in 1980.

Cressman said Swine Innovation Porc has been effective through its membership in Swine Cluster 1 and now is about to transition to Swine Cluster 2.

The Board of Directors of Swine Innovation Porc has nine members:

• Beth Clark, pork producer representing Ontario Pork
• Stewart Cressman, pork producer representing the Ontario pork sector
• Neil Ketilson, representing the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board
• Jean-Paul Laforest, Chair of the Science Advisory Body
• Normand Martineau, pork producer representing the Les Éleveurs de porcs du Québec
• Danielle Pettigrew, representing the Quebec pork sector
• Daryl Possberg, pork producer representing Alberta Pork Industry Services
• Mike Teillet, representing the Manitoba Pork Council
• John Webb, representing the Pork Value Chain Roundtable