News & Updates from the CFGA Team

Madeleine Arseneau, a knowledge officer with the Living Labs Division at AAFC, presented at the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference. She soke about knowledge exchange and its role in successful, long-term adoption of practices.

During this session, Ryder Lee presented an update on the Industry-Government Forage Insurance Task Team, providing a comprehensive overview of the task team’s progress and ongoing efforts in the forage insurance sector

During an afternoon session on Nov. 30, 2023 at the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference, Josh Callen with the Hoyt Report and Aaron Goertzen with BMO participated in a panel discussion about forage exports and markets.

During the afternoon session on Nov. 30 of the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference, Josh Callen with the Hoyt Report presented on current forage export market conditions, covering hay market pricing and some market forecasting.

During an afternoon session on Nov. 29 at the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference, Brian McConkey, Lauchlan Fraser and Brooke McWherter participated in a panel discussion on the advances in science and what it means to industry.

During an afternoon session on Nov. 30 of the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference, Aaron Goertzen from BMO Capital Markets presented a Canadian economic outlook with a focus on current conditions and a look at the future.

On Nov. 29 of the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference, Ken Wall from Federated Co-op, Ross MacDonald from Regeneration Canada and Andrew Rushmere from Farmers for Climate Solutions participated in a panel discussion.

During the morning session on Nov. 30 at the CFGA’s 14th Annual Conference in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Dr. John Pattison-Williams presented his talk on grassland inventories in Canada, the US and Mexico.

During his session on Nov. 30 at the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association’s 14th Annual Conference in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Francois Blouin presented a talk on The Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment Tool (HBAT).