Youth Council AGM 2025

The Canadian Cattle Youth Council was happy to be in Levis, Quebec with the Canadian Cattle Association for their semi-annual meeting. The council had a great turnout for their Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, September 9. 

To kick off their meeting, Benjamin Hamm spoke to the group about business risk management (BRM) programs, providing an informative overview of the programs and how they can be useful to young producers and why they should take advantage of them. 

To build on last year’s ‘where are they now’ project, past youth council delegates Brodie Haugan, Andrea Van Iterson, and Evan Chaffe joined the meeting to speak about their experience with the council and how it helped to prepare them for their current roles. 

Results of the Youth Council executive election and incoming delegates were announced. They are happy to welcome Brayden Schmidt (AB) as President and Patrick Sullivan (QC) as Vice President for the upcoming year. Thank you to outgoing President Emily Bromley (ON) and outgoing Vice-President Marc Vachon (MB) for their time on executive this past year. 

The delegates who will be serving on the council as of the September 9, 2025 AGM are as follows: 

• BC Delegate, TBA 

• Alberta Delegate, Brayden Schmidt 

• Saskatchewan Delegate, Judson Christopherson 

• Manitoba Delegate, Marc Vachon 

• Ontario Delegate, Emily Bromley 

• Quebec Delegate, Patrick Sullivan 

• Atlantic Delegate, Allan Larsen 

• Member at Large, Carling Matejka (Alberta) 

• Member at Large, Connor English (Manitoba) 

• Canadian Beef Check-Off Agency Youth Delegate, Adeleen Bolduc (Alberta) 

  
  

We are excited to welcome our very first Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) youth delegate after the CRSB AGM September 23. Keep an eye out for the announcement of our first delegate! 

A special thank you to the outgoing delegates for their contributions to the Council. This includes BC Delegate Rylonn Elliot, Member at Large Delegate Danika Mayer (ON), and Past President serving in a Member at Large Position, Scott Gerbrandt (SK).  

We are excited for the year ahead with our Youth Council! 

The Canadian Cattle Youth Council is made possible through the generous support of Platinum Partner, New Holland, CCA and all provincial cattle association partners: British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association, Alberta Beef Producers, Saskatchewan Cattle Association, Manitoba Beef Producers, Beef Farmers of Ontario, Les Producteurs de bovins du Québec, Nova Scotia Cattle Producers, New Brunswick Cattle Producers, and the Prince Edward Island Cattle Producers.