AGENDA COG 2011 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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Via webinar 12:00 pm EDT
Welcome: President, Daniel BriseboisIntroduction of 2011 Board of Directors: Daniel
BriseboisActivities Review: National Director Laura Telford and
Anne Macey from COG Island Natural GrowersFinancial Report: Treasurer, Sheila Hamilton and
Dennis Medaglia, Partner, Collins Barrow Ottawa, LLPPresident’s Report: Dan BriseboisGeneral discussion and questions from members
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Acclaimed 2011› Tony Marshall, AB› Rochelle Eisen, BC
Returning Board Members› Sheila Hamilton, AB› Lorraine Beaudette, SK› Geneviève
Grossenbacher, QC› Daniel Brisebois, QC› Gavin Dandy, ON
Regional Representatives› Arnold Taylor, Prairie› Roxanne Beavers,
Atlantic› Vlad Skotor, ON
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Policy Outreach to Farmers Markets Intelligence Markets Development Outreach to gardeners &
consumers Advocacy
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Organic Standards Maintenance & Funding
Standards Interpretation Committee (Sic) Aquaculture Food Safety
› AAFC Organic Study › Agri-subcommittee Food Safety
Stakeholder Reference Group next round of Agricultural Policy
Organic Value Chain Roundtable
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Promotional Opportunities Project commissioned by the OVCRT
National Plan to Increase the Participation of Organic Farmers in Food Safety Programming
Taking Back the Middle (COG PWW) Regain Control of Your Food Choices:
Build Your Local Organic Food Strategy (COG PWW)
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Hosted Farm Conferences:› COG Ottawa Eco Farm Day, Cornwall, ON› Conference Committee Guelph Organic Conference,
Guelph, ON› Farmer Cooperative Symposium, Kemptville, ON
Booths at:› Western Canadian Crop Production Show, Saskatoon, SK› Eco Farm, Asilomar, CA› Toronto International Farm Show, Missassauga, ON› MOSES Organic Farming Conference, LaCrosse, WI› Guelph Organic Conference, Guelph, ON› Organic Connections, Saskatoon, SK
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Webinars› Crop Planning x 2 episodes› Record Keeping x 2 episodes› Transition to Organic Livestock Production› Transitioning the Small Produce Farm
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Prairie Region› Manitoba Farm Mentorship Program (COG
OFCM) 6 interns in 2009 and 2010, 20
participating “mentor farms”, 32 training events since 2009, 5 farm tours in 2010, networking and social opportunities for participants
› Completed 3-year farmer training project funded by the CWB (COG NAT)
27 workshops over 3 years in Prairies reaching close to 400 farmers
Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development
Saskatchewan Agriculture
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Ontario Region› Workshops and farm tours in south western
and eastern Ontario (COG PWW and COG OTT)› Piloted transition advisor program in south-
western Ontario (COG PWW)› Developed farmer support groups to transfer
information. Two legal cooperatives have resulted from some of these farmer clusters
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› New book in the COG Practical Skills Series published: Record Keeping for Organic Growers
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› Two new books in the Practical Skills Series in production: Scaling Up Organically Organic Livestock Handbook Revision
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COG OFCM dozens of presentations to Winnipeg child care centres. 21 have signed up for organic food
COG ING has built its GUO project into a food distribution service that delivers organic food to an elder care facility and to schools. ING is now creating the necessary infrastructure to build food self-sufficiency on Salt Spring Island
COG OTT – worked with retailers to increase locally grown organic food on the shelves
COG NAT has been working with entrepreneurs in eastern ON to map the food value chain and raise funds needed to build ‘Organic Central’- a cluster of organic processing and distribution businesses
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COG Organic Directory/Chapter Directories
COG Toronto Annual Conference COG Toronto Booth @ Consumer Shows COG Ottawa Feast of Fields COG PWW Stone Soup event
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Thanks to Anne Macey of COG Island Natural Growers, COG has been collecting statistical information about Canada’s organic farming and processing sectors for over 20 years
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PUBPATENT lawsuit against Monsanto The Last Straw Campaign against GMO
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