At their annual meeting held during Canadian Western Agribition, the Canadian Beef Breeds Council membership elected their 2023-24 board of directors. New directors elected to the board are Eddie Marsman, current president of the Canadian Gelbvieh Association and Andy Schuepbach, a current director of the Canadian Hereford Association.
Re-elected to the board were Kevin Blair, Marlin LeBlanc, Rod McLeod, Scott Severtson and Shawn Wilson. They join currently serving directors Ken Friesen, Dennis Serhienko, David Sibbald and Brett Wildman.
The council wants to acknowledge and sincerely thank retiring directors Amanda Fileccia (Matthews), Hal Nixdorff and Graham McLean for their contributions to the board.
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The 2023-24 Canadian Beef Breeds Council board of directors recently met and elected their leadership for the upcoming year. Returning for his fourth and final year as chair is David Sibbald. Joining Sibbald on the executive is Shawn Wilson as first vice- chair, Marlin Leblanc as second vice-chair and Ken Friesen as finance chair.
