New Jersey Canada Director for Atlantic Canada!

Mark Anderson was recently confirmed as the new Jersey Canada Director from Atlantic Canada. Mark and his wife Marjorie milk 90 cows in a freestall herd in Ward’s Creek, New Brunswick. They have 10 Jerseys in the dairy herd, with the remainder being Holsteins. The Jerseys are registered under the Co Co Creek prefix. They have had Jerseys in their herd since 2000 and 100% are classified Good Plus or better. Mark has been both a 4-H member and leader and completed the NB Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program in 2004. He has been a director of the Sussex Co-op for six years, including two years as president. The family also raises sheep, including 75 Dorset and crossbred ewes. Mark and Marjorie have a son named Iain and Mark is proud to represent Atlantic Jersey breeders on the Jersey Canada Board of Directors.

National Fieldman visits Maritimes!

Jean-Marc Pellerin, National Fieldman for Jersey Canada, recently did 18 herd visits in the Maritimes in April. He concentrated his visits primarily in New Brunswick and North Eastern Nova Scotia this trip. He was able to answer a lot of questions about bulls and managing Jerseys. He was also able to answer questions about sexed semen and use of young sires. Thank you to Jean-Marc for continuing to assist many of our newest Jersey members!

Jersey Atlantic Annual Meeting

Jersey Atlantic held their Annual General Meeting at Pine Haven Farms on Saturday, April 16th. There was a social hour before the meeting, where guests were able to view the well-known and well-respected Pine Haven herd as well as talk about Jersey issues.

The meeting was called to order by President Eric Thompson. Approximately 20 members from NB, NS and PEI were in attendance. Mark Anderson gave the National Director’s Report. There was lively discussion about the merger of Holstein Canada and CDN. Mark will bring questions and comments back to the Jersey Canada Board.

Marjorie Anderson reported on the Jersey - The Next Generation program. She found it to be very informative and encouraged young breeders to participate in future years. Reg Dillman gave a show report. He encouraged membership to try and bring numbers up at the All Atlantic show in Truro so it would qualify as an All Canadian show. There were 23 head shown last year by 7
exhibitors, judged by Bob Jarrell.

A motion was made to keep the same Executive for 2011. President remains Eric Thompson, with Mike Sweet as Vice-President, Trevor Constantine as Past-President, David Cole as Secretary/Treasurer, Mark Anderson as National Director and Fred Barrett as PEI representative.

Mark Anderson presented Eric Thompson with his Constructive Breeder Award from Jersey Canada, as well as mentioning Production Awards won by David Dykstra of New Brunswick. Thank you to Eric and Kelly for hosting the meeting!