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Five Nations Beef Alliance by Kim McCaw

By Jolene | Published January 10, 2013

CYL Participants at the FNBA Conference in Banff (Sheldon Kyle, Kim McCaw, Jake Meyer)FNBA at Douglas Lake RanchFNBA in the RockiesFNBA at Douglas Lake Ranch

FNBA Young Ranchers GroupFNBA in the Rockies

2012 Mentee Kim McCaw wrote an excellent summary of her experience as part of the Young Ranchers Program at the Five Nations Beef Alliance Conference hosted by Canada in September. She describes the interesting tours and excellent networking opportunities that the conference provided its participants. For the full article see the Ontario Beef Magazine December 2012 edition or visit:

http://www.cattle.guelph.on.ca/ontario_beef/articles/dec01.asp

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Sheldon Kyle’s Interview with Real Agriculture

By Jolene | Published December 4, 2012

Sheldon Kyle was interviewed at Agribition by Real Agriculture and here is what he had to say:

http://www.realagriculture.com/2012/11/the-role-of-cattle-shows-mentorship-for-the-young-rancher/

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Jeff Yorga’s Interview with Discover Estevan at Agribition

By Jolene | Published November 26, 2012

2012 CYL Mentee Jeff Yorga was featured in a couple articles after participating in the news release announcing Agribition as a CYL Future Mentor. Here is the link to one of them:

http://www.discoverestevan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15941&Itemid=346

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CWA as a New Future Mentor and Updates to the Website

By Jolene | Published November 22, 2012

Some renovations have been happening on our website!

We have added a section titled ‘Future Mentors’ for those organizations or individuals that are interested in participating in the CYL Program in a mentor capacity. The future mentors category enables the CYL to broaden its base of mentors who see value in the program and are looking for a candidate with specific attributes to take on as a mentee, be it in this program year or one in the future. The Canadian Western Agribition (CWA) and CYL have announced that the CWA will be joining us as a new future mentor!

Several CYL participants will be attending CWA this week exhibiting cattle and connecting with producers and consumers at the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association booth. Those in attendance include: Jeff Yorga (Flintoft, SK), Brodie Haugan (Orion, AB), Ryan Hurlburt (Saskatoon, SK), Tyson Lowe (Nanton, AB) , Sheldon Kyle (Redvers, SK), and Allison Porter (Kinistino, SK).

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Beef Cattle Research Council Meeting by Katie Wood

By Jolene | Published November 21, 2012

Prior to our Fall Forum in October, 2012 CYL Mentee Katie Wood sat in on a BCRC meeting in Calgary alongside her mentor Reynold Bergen, BCRC’s Science Director. Here is  what she had to say about the experience:

I was lucky enough to attend the fall meeting of the Beef Cattle Research Council on Oct 11 and 12th in Calgary. The council consists of members of each of the check-off contributing provinces as well as BCRC staff. This fall meeting was to review the research proposals for and determining funding decisions for the upcoming Beef Research Cluster funded projects. Over the two day meeting each of the research proposals were discussed and the council voted to accept or reject each proposal. The projects fall under one of seven categories: grains and forages, feeding and feed efficiency, animal health, food safety, beef quality, environment, and technology transfer. As a future [ … ]

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Beef Value Chain Round Table by Katie Wood

By Jolene | Published November 21, 2012

2012 CYL Mentee Katie Wood from Ontario had the opportunity to attend the Beef Value Chain Round Table in Ottawa along with fellow mentee Erika Strande from British Columbia. Here is what she had to say about her experience:

I had the opportunity to attend the Beef Value Chain Round Table meeting in Ottawa on Oct 2nd and 3rd, 2012. The meeting provides a platform for all  stakeholders in the industry to meet and discuss issues, challenges and opportunities for the industry as a whole. Representatives from government (both provincial and federal), industry representative groups like the Canadian Cattleman’s Association and National Cattle Feeders Association, research groups like BCRC and Livestock Gentec as well as large industry like Cargil and XL Foods and more, were all are represented at the roundtable. This roundtable came at a pertinent time as the XL Beef recall was in full swing and receiving heaps [ … ]

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CYL Judging Legends of the Fall at Farm Fair

By Jolene | Published November 7, 2012

 

Allison Porter (CYL 2011) and Ryan Hurlburt (CYL 2012) were asked to be part of the panel of judges at the Legends of the Fall Show at Farm Fair International this year. A panel of six judges evaluated the calendar year calves – three judges for the bulls and three for the heifers. Allison and Ryan judged beside other established seedstock producers as well as an international judge from Australia.

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2012 Fall Forum and Tour of Southern Alberta

By Jolene | Published October 19, 2012

On October 18, 2012, CYL Mentees gathered at the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) office in Calgary to here from some of the leaders in the beef industry. The CYL Mentees were also joined by representatives from the Alberta Meat and Livestock Agency (ALMA) and the Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association. That morning,

participants heard from Rob McNabb (General Manager of the CCA), Gordon Cove (ALMA), Reynold Bergen (Beef Cattle Research Council), Cindy Delaloye (Canadian Beef Grading Agency), Annemarie Pederson (Canada Beef Inc.) and Brian Perrilat (Canfax). Then we were off to see the Cargill Meat Solutions Plant in High River. Once our tour of the plant was finished we were joined by the General Manager of the High River plant, Scott Entz, and the General Manager of the Spruce Grove plant, Tim Hardman. Many of the participants of the forum agreed that this stop was a highlight!

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