Friday, July 12, 2019

Bibeau appoints five people

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has appointed three people as directors of Farm Credit Canada and two to the Farm Products Council of Canada.

Appointed to Farm Credit areSylvie Cloutier, Sharilee Fossum and Michael Hoffort as president and chief executive officer.

Cloutier lives at Bromont, Que., and has been with the Quebec Food Processing Council since 2003 and as president and chief executive officer since 2010.

Fossum is currently the chief financial and corporate officer for thee 77,000-member  Association of Professioonal Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

All three appointments are for three years.

Ron Bonnett, former president of the Ontario and Canadian federations of agriculture, has been appointed vice-chairman of the Farm Products Council of Canada and Morgan Moore has been appointed a member.

Morgan is a beef and sheep farmer from near Brandon, Man., and is vicre-chairman of the Canadian Sheep Federation.

Theirs are also three-year terms.

The council supervises national marketing agencies.