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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • APRIL 2017


Marketing board parts company with CEO Ag Briefs


ABBOTSFORD – The BC Milk Marketing Board has


EDITED BY TAMARA LEIGH


parted company with its chief executive officer Bob Ingratta. Ingratta had been the BCMMB CEO since December 2011.


The BCMMB announced


Ingratta’s departure in a tersely-worded statement on March 13, saying only that “Bob Ingratta, CEO has left the organization.” BCMMB director Corny


Hertgers refused to provide any additional details, citing “confidentiality.” The BCMMB’s senior


director of finance and operations, Robert Delage, has been appointed as interim general manager. It is the second time in Delage’s 16-year tenure with the milk board that he’s taken on that role, having previously served as acting general manager for a year before Ingratta was hired.


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Hertgers said board members are presently “weighing our options” and have not yet launched a search for a new CEO.


David Schmidt BC loses a


familiar voice in agriculture CHILLIWACK – Fraser Valley


agriculture lost one of its most-recognized voices with the passing of Grant Ullyot on March 3. Ullyot, who was just a week


shy of his 82nd birthday when he died, was the news director at CHWK Radio in Chilliwack from 1972 to 1999. For most of those years, he also presented three Farm Fare agricultural news capsules each weekday morning. After leaving radio, he entered the newspaper world, editing West Coast Farmer for about a decade and contributing to such other BC farm papers as Country Life in BC, Orchard and Vine and BC Berry Grower. He was a reporter to the end, submitting his last article in December 2016.


Ullyot loved to talk as much as he loved to listen, making every interview a lengthy two-way conversation. Even when he was no longer on the radio, he still brought his trusty microphone and recorder to every interview and farm meeting he attended. While he had a passion for


agriculture, his first love was sports. He was the play-by- play announcer for Chilliwack’s Junior B hockey team for over a decade, served several terms as president of the Chilliwack Men’s Fastball League and was an avid curling fan. Ullyot began his broadcast career with Canadian Armed Forces Radio in Germany in 1958. After leaving the army, he worked in radio and television in Saskatoon, Melfort, SK and Red Deer, AB before moving to Chilliwack. In 2013, he


GRANT ULLYOT


received the Order of British Columbia for his


long-standing service to the community. Ullyot leaves behind his


wife of 60 years, Nancy, five children, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. “I worked with Grant at


CHWK Radio for almost eight years in the 1970s and we reconnected when he, too,


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left radio and became an agriculture reporter,” recalls Country Life in BC associate editor David Schmidt. “He had such an open and personable relationship with everyone he met that they could not help but become his friend. I will miss his unceasing exuberance and enthusiasm.”


TRU professor wins range management award


KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops educator and researcher is the recipient of the Society for Range Management (SRM) Outstanding Achievement award. Dr. Wendy Gardner is an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University. "I'm thrilled with the


award," says Gardenr, a long- time member of the SRM executive. She joined the society in2000 and has served as both pesident and vice-president, and engaged in outreach activities. Indeed,


Gardner has been on the BC


chapter of the SRM executive since 2000, holding positions of both president and vice president. “The SRM has given me a


lot,” says Gardner. “It helps both me and my students stay current.” Gardner takes a number of


graduate students to the SRM annual conference every year. “I love teaching and


working with students and doing practical research,” says Gardner. She teaches range


BC Buy Local gets another cash injection VICTORIA – The province’s


pre-election budget has promised a three-year funding commitment to the Buy Local program. The BC Ministry of Agriculture is set to receive $2 million a year to support the popular domestic marketing program. The on-going funding is a first for the program, which has typically received annual allocations. The program provides matching funding to agri-food and seafood


companies in BC to help promote their products through Buy Local initiatives such as traditional print advertising and promotional campaigns.


Since 2012, the DR WENDY GARDNER


government has invested


$8 million in the Buy Local


program, funding close to 200 projects to help companies expand their reach and sales in communities throughout BC and leveraging $29 million in investments through matching funds. The provincial


government's Buy Local program is administered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of British Columbia.


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