The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association has officially installed Brad Wildeman of Lanigan, Sask., as its new president and Tony Saretsky of Ponoka, Alta., as its vice-president.
The CCA’s board of directors held elections for the posts during the association’s annual general meeting last week in Ottawa.
Wildeman, who heads Pound-Maker AgVentures, a feedlot and ethanol processing plant, has been with the CCA for 10 years, serving as its foreign trade committee chairman for five years and vice-president for the past two years.
Saretsky owns and operates Cantriex Livestock International and Cantriex Feedyards, buying and selling cattle mostly for export, and has been a CCA director for four years.
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“We still have a lot of work to do to fix the business risk management programs to better reflect the needs of the industry, there is a strong need for regulatory reform to decrease the costs to producers while not impeding business and trade, and I am committed to ensuring improved communications among our stakeholders,” Wildeman said in a CCA release Wednesday.
Wildeman replaces Hugh Lynch-Staunton, a southern Alberta rancher, as head of the cattlemen’s group. A feature interview with Wildeman is the cover story in the latest issue of Canadian Cattlemen magazine, now available digitally to subscribers through its web site.
