Canadian Swine
Breeders Association Annual General Meeting
Ingersoll, March
2
7
, 201
7
.
Members and guests were welcomed by
President Dave Vandenbroek to the
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Swine Breeders Association.
In 2016, members registered 132,418
purebred swin
e. Breeds registered were
Yorkshire, Landrace
,
Duroc,
Berkshire, Large Blac
k
and
Tamworth
.
Genesus Inc
.
, located in
Manitoba,
registered the most purebred swine.
The recipient of the Warren Stein Memorial Scholarship for 2016 was Karen DeBruyn. Karen just
completed her fourth year of the animal science degree program at the University of Guelph and is from
Oxford County in Ontario.
President
Dave
presented
Joh
n Gough, Novastar Genetics
with the
Award of Merit
for 2016
.
While
John
is
now
enjoying the retired life, his many contributions to the swine industry
are not forgotten and
were
highlighted by Dave. In 1977, when John graduated from the University of G
uelph with a B.Sc. in
agriculture, he took over the mixed family farm from his father and with his wife Enid and two sons
Michael and Mark, started his own farrow to finish operation with purebred Yorkshire sows. John
participated in many provincial, regi
onal and national associations in support of purebred swine breeders.
The slate of officers and representatives
for 2017 are
as follows:
Dave Vandenbroek: President
& Representative to PigGen Canada
and Canadian Livestock Records
Corporation
Jim Long:
1
st
Vice President
Jim Donaldson:
2
nd
Vice
President
Line Théroux:
4
th
position on the Executive &
Representative to Canadian Centre for Swine Improvement