Provincial Commissions

AOGC 2024 AGM – Monday, January 22, 2024

Presentations from the AOGC 2024 AGM, and meeting documents, are below. 

Liming for Crop Production and Soil Health—Dr. Linda Gorim, Assistant Professor, WGRF Chair in cropping systems, University of Alberta.

Breeding Oats for Alberta Producers—Jim Dyck, Breeder and Owner of Oat Advantage.

Oat Market Outlook—Tracy Bush, Sales Manager, MGM Seed and Grain/Bay State Milling. To read an article on this presentation, please click on this link for the 2024 March Oat Scoop (see page 8).

• • Agenda
  • AOGC Minutes 2023 AGM
  • For the 2022-2023 Financial Statements and Annual Report, please go to: AOGC Financials & Annual Report.

AOGC 2023 AGM – Monday, January 23, 2023

Presentations from the AOGC 2023 AGM, and meeting documents, are below. 

What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Oats in Beer
and Why We Chose Oats — Ryan Pearson, Owner and Brewer, Battle
River Brewery

Nutritional Advantages of Oats and Opportunities for Plant-Based
Milk and Meat Product Development — Dr. Lingyun Chen, University of
Alberta 

Oat Market Outlook — Brittany Nielsen, Senior Farm Marketing
Advisor at Farmers Business Network

• • Agenda
  • AOGC Minutes 2022 AGM
  • AOGC 2022 Annual Report
  • 2022 AOGC Financial Statements

• PRESENTATION FROM THE 2022 AGM

  The Alberta Oat Growers Association held their 2022 AGM at The Edmonton Westin the evening of Monday, January 24, 2022. The group held their business portion, and then the following presentations were made:

  • Oat Market Outlook – Shayne Murphy, Senior Grain Merchandiser, Parrish & Heimbecker Limited
  • AAFC Oat Varieties: What’s New, on its Way, and Good for Alberta Producers (including information from the Lacombe Testing Centre) – Kirby Nilsen, Oat Breeder, AAFC, Brandon, MB
  • Stoked Oats: How We Got Here, What We Do, How Technology is Driving Sales and Why We Chose Oats – Simon Donato, President, Stoked Oats

PRESENTATION FROM THE 2021 AGM

The Alberta Oat Growers Association held their AGM virtually on Thursday, April 8, 2021. The group held their business portion, and then the following presentation was made:

• Oat Market Outlook – Chris Newbergher, Grain Marketing Specialist, Stony Plain Seed Cleaning

AGM Meeting Documents:

• AOGC 2021 AGM Agenda
• Minutes from AOGC AGM 2020 – January 27, 2020
• 2019-2020 Financial Statements
• 2019-2020 Annual Report

PRESENTATION FROM THE 2020 AGM

The Alberta Oat Growers Association held their AGM on Monday, January 27, 2020. The group held their business portion, and then Devin Dreeshen, Alberta Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development brought greetings and took questions from the crowd.

Presentations were made by: Dr. Aaron Beattie, oat breeder at the Crop Development Centre (CDC) in Saskatoon and Randy Strychar, Oat Marketing Analyst for OatInformation.com.

• CDC Oat Varieties: What’s New, On it’s Way and Good for Alberta Producers – Dr. Aaron Beattie

The Alberta Oat Growers held their annual general meeting on Monday, January 28, 2019 at The Edmonton Westin, during FarmTech. The evening meeting format allowed Alberta oat growers to attend to oat business before checking out the latest in farm technologies and information at the Edmonton Expo Centre.

• Click here for the meeting agenda.

Following are presentations made at the meeting:

• Results From Three Years of Oat Variety Trials in Westlock and Falher… will New Varieties Beat Morgan 3 Years in a Row??? – Sandeep Nain, General Manager, Gateway Research Organization
• Rail Transportation, What Changes with the Implementation of Bill C-49 and How Might it Impact Producers? – Mark Hemmes, President, Quorum Corporation
• Alberta Oat Markets: What can Alberta Farmers Expect in Terms of Price for 2019? – John Loogman, Rycroft Elevator Manager/Grain Buyer AB/BC, Grain Millers Canada

The Alberta Oat Growers held their annual general meeting on Monday, January 29, 2018 at The Edmonton Westin, 10135 100th Street, Edmonton, AB.

• Click here for the meeting agenda.

Following are presentations made at the meeting:

• Results from two years of oat variety trials in Westlock and Falher…spoiler alert: the best variety was not Morgan in year one; see the results from year one and two! – Sandeep Nain, General Manager, Gateway Research Organization
• Ways U of A is developing oats for end uses and utilizing the total oat to get more value for them – Dr. Lingyun Chen, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta (U of A)
• Oat Markets: What can Alberta farmers expect in terms of price and seeded acres for 2018? – Chris Newbergher, Buyer, Providence Grain Solutions