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2025 DFO Board Executive Election

At a Special Board meeting held on Jan. 16, 2025, following Dairy Farmers of Ontario’s (DFO) 2025 Annual General Meeting, DFO’s Board elected its 2025 Board Executive.

Mark Hamel, Board Member for Region 11, was re-elected as Chair; John Wynands, Board Member for Region 3 was elected as Vice-Chair; and Don Gordon, Board Member for Region 5, was re-elected as 2nd Vice-Chair.

Arlene Minott was re-appointed as Corporate Secretary to the Board. Rey Moisan was re-appointed as Treasurer to the Board.

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Six hundred Canadian farms grow grain for Warburton's under custom contract — and that partnership exists because of Canadian plant breeding. Now the man responsible for maintaining it is sounding the alarm.

Adam Dyck is the program manager for Warburton's Canada, a company that produces over two million loaves of bread a day for more than 20,000 retail locations across the UK. He's watched Canadian wheat deliver thirty years of yield gains and quality advancements that make it worth sourcing at scale — and shipping across the Atlantic. But he's also watching the investment conditions that produced those gains come under pressure. Dyck makes the case for a new funding mechanism that brings both public and private dollars into wheat breeding before Canada's competitive window starts to close.