Farms.com Home   Ag Industry News

Country Heritage Agricultural Society holds election

Group held their first contested election

By Diego Flammini, Farms.com

The Country Heritage Agricultural Society held its first contested election since 2010 and a familiar face sits as the president of the group.

Bruce Saunders won the election and will return as the Society’s president. He said he’s looking forward to the challenges of the future.

“This is an exciting time for our society,” he said. “There are so many changes taking place right now at Country Heritage Park that I am honoured to be leading the charge on these new initiatives.”

Country Heritage Park (CHP) is an 80-acre site that pays homage to a rural crossroads community of 185 years ago. It has historic buildings, fairgrounds and showcases the people who helped build the foundations of food and farming as it is known today. The site also used to be the Ontario Agricultural Museum.

Joining Saunders as executives are Bev Hughes as vice president, Carolyn McDonnell and Brian Little as its members at large.

The executives work with another 13 members throughout Ontario to help improve Country Heritage Park, located in Milton, Ontario.

There are two new board members – Bruce Christie and Liz Lambrick. It also means that former members Bill Fulton and Brian Ellsworth will be moving on to other endeavours.

“While we have an infusion of new individuals through the membership, it is always hard to say goodbye to individuals you have worked with over the years,” Saunders said. “On behalf of the board, I want to personally thank both men for all they did – particularly as CHP transitioned within our corporate structure through general managers.”

Tell us your thoughts about the Country Heritage Agricultural Society. Have you ever been to Country Heritage Park?


Trending Video

Funds Ditch Ag Commodities, Chase Stocks Amid an End to Middle East War, & Trade Deal Buzz

Video: Funds Ditch Ag Commodities, Chase Stocks Amid an End to Middle East War, & Trade Deal Buzz


The 12-day war between Iran-Israel came to an end sending crude oil futures plunging as the big fund speculators removed the war risk premium.

The weather risk premium in the Ag complex is sending corn, wheat and soybean futures lower on month-end selling ahead of the market moving USDA quarterly grain stocks and acreage reports on June 30th.

Instead, funds were chasing and sending tech stocks higher with the S&P 500/NASDAQ indexes setting new all-time record highs!

June 1 USDA Hogs and pigs report was slightly bearish while the U.S. $ Index traded to new contract lows as the de-dollarization that began in 2014 continues.

Feed in the form of soybean meal futures for livestock producers got cheaper, trading to new contract lows.

The Stats Canada seeded acreage update was bullish canola and wheat.