Event date:
3/21/2023 12:00 PM - 3/22/2023 2:30 PM Export event
Ontario Pork AGM 2023
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ontario-pork-annual-general-meeting-2023-tickets-528566756397
A reminder that Delegates must check in on both days.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
12:00 p.m. Lunch and Registration*
1:00 p.m. Opening Session of Annual General Meeting
- Session Chair: John de Bruyn
1:15 p.m. North American Pork Market: Economic Drivers and Analysis
- Steve Meyer, Kerns and Associates, Iowa
2:00 p.m. Workforce Trends: Inter-Generational Differences and Their Impacts on Workplace Dynamics
- Sean Lyons, Professor, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
2:45 p.m. Nutritional Break
3:00 p.m. Government of Canada’s Trade Agenda
- Axel Ndayisaba, Director of the Trade Negotiations Division, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
3:45 p.m. Consumer Trends
- John Cranfield, Professor, University of Guelph
4:30 p.m. Reception
6:30 p.m. Dinner Banquet and Awards
Entertainment
- Freddy Proia, Stand-Up Comedian
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
8:00 a.m. Breakfast and Registration*
8:45 a.m. Honourable Lisa Thompson (invited)
- Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
9:00 a.m. Call to Order – Business Meeting
- Opening Remarks – John de Bruyn
- Financial Report – Jim Weir
- Auditor’s Report – RLB LLP
9:45 a.m. Operations Report
- Ken Ovington – General Manager
10:00 a.m. Questions and Answers
10:15 a.m. Advocacy for Agriculture – Speaking to the Government
- John Milloy, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
11:00 a.m. Nutritional Break
11:15 a.m. Canadian Pork Council Update
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Resolutions
2:30 p.m. Wrap-up Session and Closing Remarks
*Delegates must check in on both days.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ontario-pork-annual-general-meeting-2023-tickets-528566756397