In the interest of security, directors’ personal e-mail addresses and phone numbers are no longer listed on the POGA website. To contact a board member, please send your email to info@poga.ca and it will be forwarded to the board member, as requested. You may also leave a message for a board member with Shawna Mathieson, Executive Director, at 306-530-8545. We apologize for any inconvenience.
The following are the members of the MOGA Board of Directors for the current year:
Yves Lapointe
Chair
555 Pembina Trail
Ste-Agathe, MB R0G 1Y1
Please scroll below the photos for a message from you MOGA Chair!
Ray Mazinke
Vice Chair
PO Box 882
Morris, MB R0G 1K0
Bob Lepischak
Audit Chair
Box 63
Neepawa, MB R0J 1H0
Emily Laudin
Box 188
Balmoral, MB R0C 0H0
Edgar Scheurer
31016 Settlers Road
Dugald, MB R5P 0E2
Griffin Smith
28058 Oakwood Rd
Oatbank, MB R5N 0A6
John Bergen
Box 578
Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Shawna Mathieson
Executive Director
PO Box 20106
Regina, SK S4P 4J7
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR MOGA CHAIR
Yves Lapointe, his wife Kelli and parents Gerald and Solange operate a fourth-generation, 3850-acre family farm along the Red River in Ste-Agathe, MB (~ 15 minutes south of Winnipeg). They grow a multitude of crops and usually run a 4-5 year crop rotation, typically growing oats, wheat, canola, soybeans and corn. When fall weather permits, they grow perennial crops like winter wheat and rye grass and this helps spread out harvest from late July to November. Yves is also a soybean and wheat seed grower for the local seed producer/retailer.
“After serving on the MOGA and POGA boards for four years and gaining a good appreciation of the work done by the organizations, I accepted the role of MOGA chair. I have also been farming for most of my life, and felt it was time for me to accept a role with even more responsibility to give back to the community and industry that I love,” stated Lapointe.
He also shared some of the goals that are being pursued through the oat commission and POGA: “I would like to see continued prosperity in the oat industry. For instance, the possibilities for even more growth, especially in the health food sector, are endless. We need to continue to focus on support for research and development to push oat yields, quality, straw length and shatter resistance. Oats are an important crop in our crop rotation; they are perfect to grow after canola, soybeans or corn, and help improve soil health. They also perform well in wet growing conditions.”
The Manitoba Oat Growers Association has six members on its board of directors. These individuals are oat growers within the province that have expressed interest and were voted in by other oat producers in the province.
MOGA members are also encouraged to let their names stand for director positions. Benefits of being a director for MOGA include:
- Identify and direct research for the benefit of the entire industry;
- Increased industry knowledge;
- The opportunity to meet a large number of influential millers, buyers, and government officials across the province, nation and globally;
- Increased information sharing with other growers to learn what other farmers are doing and have experienced;
- Professional development;
- Reimbursement for all travel, honorariums for time spent on the commissions’ projects and committees.
Please contact the POGA office for information on how to express interest.
