2008 Innovation Day and AGM
CFBMC Innovation Workshop and Annual General Meeting
2008
2008 Annual General Meeting and
Innovation Workshop
June 3rd and 4th, 2008
Holiday Inn Guelph
601 Scottsdale Drive
Guelph, Ontario
N1G 3E7
Accommodation
Please call the Holiday Inn directly at: 519-836-0231 to make a reservation.
Rates for standard rooms are: $139 single/double occupancy
Cut-off date: May 3rd, 2008
Please mention you are booking a room under the block reserved for the Canadian Farm Business Management Council to obtain this rate.
Shuttle service from the airport
Other hotels in the area include:
Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre
Please call the Delta directly at: 519-780-3700 or 1-800-268-1133 to make a reservation.
Rates for standard rooms starts at: $149 single/double occupancy
Cut-off date: May 2nd, 2008
Please mention you are booking a room under the block reserved for the Canadian Farm Business Management Council to obtain this rate.
Registration
Please complete the online registration form at the latest by May 27th, 2008
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The Canadian Farm Business Management Council (CFBMC) held its AGM and its 6th Farm Management Innovation Workshop in Guelph in June 2008. Here are the presentations offered during that day.
The Use of Learning Organization Tools to Re-Engage Business Management Extension
Wray McDonnell, BC Ministry of Agriculture and Land
Cost of Production Benchmarking Tool
Michel Ouellet, Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Virtual Office for the Agricultural Consultant
Marie-Claude Lapierre, Centre de référence en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Québec
Evaluation and Development of Generic Skills for Consultants in Agriculture
Marie-Claude Lapierre, Centre de référence en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Québec
Growing Your Farm Profits: Planning for Business Success
Carl Fletcher, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Growing Your Opportunities – Value Plus Workshops
Dorene Collins, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
“Rural Streetworker”...Listening to the Needs of Farm Families
Maria Labrecque Duchesneau, Au Cœur de familles agricoles
AgriBUSINSS eCampus
John Anderson, KPMG
Budgitel
France Perreault, Fédération des groupes conseils agricoles du Québec
Growing Opportunities Conference 2008
Sean MacInnis, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
Planning the Expansion of a Dairy Business
Jean Brisson, Valacta
Raymond Levallois Wins Wilson Loree Award 2008
Raymond Levallois has been named the recipient of the prestigious Wilson Loree Award for 2008. The award is given annually by the Canadian Farm Business Management Council (CFBMC) for extraordinary contribution to developing and promoting new and positive change in agricultural business management practices and expertise in Canada. The prize was awarded at the CFBMC Innovation Day banquet on June 3rd, 2008 in Guelph, Ontario.
A familiar face in the farm business management sector in Quebec, Raymond Levallois holds a Master’s degree in rural economics from the Université Laval along with a Ph.D. in economics and production from the Université de Rennes, in France. He also holds a degree in agricultural engineering from the l’École supérieure d’agriculture de Purpan and two certificates from the Université des sciences sociales de Toulouse, in economics and rural law, and in international studies, respectively.
Professor in the Department of agri-food economics and consumption sciences at the Université Laval since 1976, he founded Agri-Gestion Laval, a farm business management research group known provincially, nationally and internationally for its works. Mr. Levallois is a member of the Traget Laval Research Group (farm succession, management and establishment) since 2000. He has also been active within the Comité gestion de l’entreprise agricole du Centre de référence en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Québec (CRAAQ) for more than 20 years.
An agronomist fascinated with everything that pertains to farm business management and dairy production, Mr. Levallois is the originator of objective-based accounting and is considered to be the “father” of farm business management. His most recent works deal with the problematic of agricultural expansion and the debt load in dairy production in Quebec. Mr. Levallois is a well-known speaker on farm financial management, notably in debt overload and dairy herd management. Throughout his career, he has given over 70 lectures in Quebec and Canada.
In 2005, Mr. Levallois received the title of Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite agronomique du Québec from the Ordre des agronomes du Québec. That same year, the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society gave him the Award of Excellence in Farm Business Management.
With his expertise and his involvement in farm management, Raymond Levallois has significantly contributed to the development and the promotion of innovation in farm business management in Canada, and that is why he was chosen by the Canadian Farm Business Management Council (CFBMC) as the recipient of the Wilson Loree Award in 2008.
The non-monetary Award was created in 2003 by the Canadian Farm Business Management Council to recognize those who have made significant contributions in business management, either regionally or nationally, shown innovation, served as a role model and mentor to colleagues and clients and shown ability to network and build partnerships to include others in furthering the vision and goals of the agricultural industry.
For more information, please contact:
CFBMC
250-300 City Centre Avenue
Ottawa, ON
K1R 6K7
1-888-232-3262 #30
melissa@cfbmc.com
